Gadgetory

hey guys Boston we are almost halfway through 2018 which means that flagship phones are coming and to start out this new wave we have the brand new one plus six so in a world of thousand-dollar flagships the idea that you can pick up a phone like the one plus six for starting at five hundred thirty dollars means that you're really getting a lot of the same specs a lot of the same features but at a much lower price but as always the question is is it worth it's so what we have here is the mid spec model so now is this going to have a gigabytes of RAM that's also going to have 128 gigs of storage this is in the midnight black color and if we remove a little sticker here you can see that is well Meli incredibly shiny but the last times this will ever be completely perfect until I get my grimy fingerprints on it so if you put the one plus six side by side with the five T one of the main things you'll notice is that instead of the metal bag that they've had for quite a few years instead we do have that all Gorilla Glass 5 look now it is going to be slightly tapered on the back and honestly it kind of feels nice sort of similar to what you would find on something like the Galaxy s8 or Galaxy S 9 before we get too far into it though I want to take a look inside the box and what we're going to find is not only our USB C to USB a cable but also view rather large - charger something that oneplus has been known for for quite a few years now is the idea that they have some of the fastest charging phones out there alright the one plus sakes and the first thing you'll see is the notch yes my friends like basically all smartphones in 2018 the oneplus has gotten on to the notch train but I will say they've actually done a little bit differently here so the first thing you'll notice is that the notch is actually one of these smallest that you'll see most of that is because it's really not a whole lot here besides the front-facing camera the light sensor as well as your earpiece but something else to pay attention to is how small the rest of the bezels are so there's basically nothing on these sides of the display and even the chin is going to be really really minimal where this is really noticeable is when you put it side-by-side with the 1 + 5 t even though the overall footprint of the phones are almost identical what you're getting here is going to be a little bit of a larger display because you don't have that sort of forehead and the chin is going to be smaller and because of that you're going from a 6 inch display to a 6.3 in that same size body this guy is rocking a 6.3 inch 20 to 80 by 1080 AMOLED display now going to be a slightly unusual 19 by 9 aspect ratio but what it does mean is it's not going to be the most high-risk screen in the world you are going to be getting something that again covers pretty much the entire front of the phone now generally speaking I feel like a 1080p resolution it's pretty solid on a phone this size however because it is M OLED if you do look up close you're going to see some slight jaggies it's not gonna be quite as sharp as something like a galaxy s 9 screen but as soon as you get it more than a few inches away from your face I think it's going to be totally solid and importantly the screen quality itself is actually super high with this guy so not only is the one plus six color calibrated straight from the factory but you also do have extra modes inside the settings so you can set to the default mode which to my eye is a little bit oversaturated you also have srgb you have DCI p3 as well as the adaptive mode but I like going to the custom color and just tweaking it to be a little bit more natural so you will see that the screen even when you do the custom profile is going to be slightly oversaturated that's almost more of an OLED thing now speaking of OLED things if you do look at it slightly off axis you're going to see the viewing angles are good but not amazing however that's going to be pretty much any AMOLED panel what isn't going to be quite so great is the HDR playback this does what HDR video however it actually does it a little bit of a choppy rate at least on YouTube don't get me wrong though this is an incredibly nice display and a lot of ways it's right up there with stuff like the galaxy s 9 as well as the iPhone the only thing that really holds it back is going to be the slightly lower resolution but long as you're sort of at a normal viewing distance it's really not going to be an issue the oneplus 6 does still have dual SIM card slots which is definitely appreciated but you do not have any kind of microsd expandable 'ti if you want any more storage you're going to have to buy it ahead of time what thankful it's actually not going to be that pricey so the base model at $530 does have 64 gigs of storage but another $50 will bump you up to 128 and if you want to spend another $100 you're going to be getting 256 gigs of storage pretty reasonable in my opinion take a look at the bottom of the phone in addition to the USB C port you're also going to find the headphone jack yes my friends a high-end phone in 2018 that does come standard with a headphone jack one thing the oneplus six does not have is a great speaker so like the previous models there's only going to be a single mono speaker that fires down it's going to be reasonably loud it would be really nice to join the rest of the high-end flagships by adding a front firing speakers up top that doubles as your speaker grille thing whatever they call it what I always forgive us call the stupid uh earpiece earpiece now because we do have a glass back the phone is fairly slippery but there's actually going to be a fairly hard chamfer on the side which does kind of give you a little bit of grip and something else that want flow is really nailed are the buttons this is not something I talk about very often because well for the most part of button is a button but not only are they going to be pretty raised up but they're not going to be flush at all but they're nicely spaced and they actually feel really good there's this nice tactile click and especially with the volume rockers and as well as the little one plus slider that will turn on and off the mute or the vibrates which I think feels really solid baby good job here the fingerprint sensor around back works just as you would expect so it is going to be right below the camera bump which is a little bit large on the phone but just kind of helps you find the fingerprint sensor and on top of that this does also have an upgraded version of face on lock now it's not going to be as secure as something like the iPhone 10 but it does work pretty well so I kind of hold it up here and hit the button pretty much immediately unlocks as if I didn't even have a passcode maybe not the most secure thing in the world it is definitely fast this is the first time that oneplus has gone with an all glass construction for one of their phones it does look pretty nice and allow them to do multiple colors the midnight black is interesting looking even though it is going to be super super fingerprint tea however there are going to be some interesting trade-offs so yes it feels nice in the hand especially because it is going to be curved on back but it's not really going to be all that unique it's very very common for a flagship phones and even some budget options to go with a glass construction in 2018 now the trade-off when you go with glass even with something high-end like this gorilla glass five is that you're going to be losing some durability and of course you can get sort of micro scratches and stuff but that can kind of happen on any phone but the real worry is if you drop it you could totally shatter not only the front but also the back of the phone the worst part is you're really not going to be getting anything besides the aesthetics so while a metal phone generally will not allow you to wireless charge because the metal will interfere most of the time a glass phone will however for some odd reason oneplus decide to opt out of adding any kind of wireless charging capability to the one plus six sure it's got the superfast - charging and honestly I end up using sort of normal wired charging a lot more than Wireless anyway well it would be really nice to have that option especially considering that it's not even that expensive it's kind of weird that they didn't include it now there is going to be some waterproofing inside the phone however oneplus did not opt to do any kind of ip67 or ip68 rating basically what that means is that it actually might not be that far off from something like an iPhone or galaxy as far as being waterproof but if you actually get it wet and kill it it's not going to be warranty supported so you're on your own on that one there are some other nice features including a full RGB notification light as well as an ambient display mode so like something like the pixel or the galaxy s 9 you can see at a quick glance your notifications and the time and date however unlike those phones it's not going to be always on you're going to either have to tap the display or actually raise it up for it to trigger inside you're going to find full flagship level specs so it's going to be rocking a snapdragon 845 processor with 8 cores as well as either 6 or 8 gigabytes of RAM depending on which model you pick up now in the Android space that's about as good as it gets it's right on par with something like the galaxy s 9 and if you look at it side-by-side with other phones like the iPhone as well as the 1 + 5 T it does do a pretty solid job the performance generally speaking is very good exactly like you would expect with this level of specs so the UI is going to be nice and smooth one of the nice things is is that with that kind of level of performance you are going to be future-proof to some degree especially with these kind of graphics a lot of games in the future should run pretty well on the oneplus 6 the 1 plus 6 is running Android 8.1 Oreo with oxygen OS on top now it's going to be a fairly light skin so generally speaking one plus doesn't have a lot of bloat and they had actually legitimately useful features and one of which has to do with the knotch now for some reason you hate the look of a notch you can't actually turn it off in the settings so you need to do is go into the notch display option and hit hide the notch area what that will mean is that any kind of app cannot actually take advantage of that top area although thankfully you are still going to be able to use stuff like your status bar and everything that's going to be tucked up in the corner there's also going to be a built-in reading mode so you can turn this on for the entire OS or just for specific apps but once you turn it on it turns everything full grayscale and it warms up the display just a little bit kind of looks like you're reading off of a newspaper this is going to be a little bit of a niche option but especially you're sitting in bed late at night you don't want to sort of sear your eyes with super bright colors it actually is pretty calming although you probably wanna use this for text in that video there's not a lot to complain about with the software on this guy sure you're not going to be getting Android updates quite as fast as on a pixel but oneplus does have a good track record for keeping things up to date and a reasonable sort of time frame and on top of that you're also going to be getting a pretty bloke free experience as far as the cameras go while on paper looks very similar the oneplus six has seen some major upgrades so around back you're still going to be getting a 16 megapixel main sensor as well as a 20 megapixel telephoto option but that main sensors been upgraded with not only optical image stabilization but it also is now going to be a little bit larger than it was before so if we line up a shot here of Ken we're gonna see that not only does the HDR immediately pop up but something's really impressive is it it takes pictures fast they're gonna be using a lot of budget Android phones that take a while this one's pretty much instant the shots actually pretty nice too there's a really good job of keeping in all those highlights with HDR there's really not anything that we're missing so with a telephoto camera we're going to be losing a little bit of sharpness but I'm actually not that disappointed a lot of times with smart phones that do have dual cameras while the main camera might look great a lot of times when you switch over to the 2x zoom it doesn't look so great but this is not that at all so something else is the oneplus 6 has now is going to be a portrait mode so if we switch over to it it's going to turn the depth effect although interesting that's actually using it on the wide-angle camera okay let's give this a try Oh perfect there you go a wonderful shot of lots of Hearts behind you Ken that's man that's a that's a special one right there we look at the standard portrait mode though what we're getting here is something that looks okay but you know it's not really that great first of all I like it when a portrait mode will use the telephoto camera it's a little bit more of a compressed focal length I guess would be the correct phrase but this man the edges are all just blurry no it's not great get some good light and you can actually get a ton of detail out of these photos if you look up close to the little fibers on the leaf they're super clear and super crispy something else I'm really appreciating with shooting with this camera is that there's very little latency when it comes to taking a shot or especially when it comes to viewing your images everything's pretty much instance if you want to take a couple shots quickly make sure you got the thing and then move on right back into the camera there's really no lag well going to be getting some pretty decent slow-motion options so the oneplus six will shoot up to 4k at 60 frames per second and when you slow that down it looks pretty nice but if you really want some proper slow motion you're going to be getting either 720p at 480 or my personal favorite is 1080p at 240 frames per second you're still getting decent quality but it's going to slow down and still give you that cool look I mean this is cool right swishing up cameras for a second this is what 4k video looks like on the oneplus 6 now importantly we do have that optical image stabilization which especially when you're shooting 4k is super helpful but it's pretty much useful for any kind of smartphone video you guys can see as we move around a little bit it should be reasonably smooth so is the 1 plus 6 worth it's a little bit over $500 you're getting the entire flagship experience now yes they're going to be a couple things missing such as the lack of wireless charging but you consider that this is going to cost a lot less than a lot of other flagships that perform very very similarly it's kind of hard to argue that this is not the definition of being worth it