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oneplus has always been known for delivering flagship performance at a much lower price and that trend continues with the brand new 5t you're getting a lot of features from phones like the iPhone 10 and Galaxy Note 8 except at about half the price but the question is is it worth it hey guys this is Austin I spent the last week playing with the 1 + 5 t and there is a lot to like compared to the already solid 1 + 5 the most noticeable change is with the screen gone is the old 5.5 inch panel and in its place is a much taller 6 inch screen in the exact same size - chassis sure it's bezels might not be as thin as something like the iPhone 10 but you're still getting a lot more screen real estate with the two-to-one aspect ratio it's a great panel - well the resolution is a little low at 2160 by 1080 it's still plenty sharp to my eye unlike the pixel 2 XL it's actually a nice looking OLED display it looks nice right out of the box but you have several other screen modes including srgb and DCI p3 which is my personal favorite because you've got the larger screen the capacitive keys are gone and the fingerprint sensor has been moved around back I'm totally fine with this just like the pixel this feels like a really natural spot for it the 5g does add facial recognition and while it's not in the same league is the iPhone 10 it's pretty quick although it's definitely not perfectly accurate unfortunately it's still running Android 7 but oxygen OS remains pretty close to stock Android with basically no bloatware there's a lot of great customization options like rearranging your on screen buttons and what things like a long press will do as well as tweaking the notification shade and status bar to be exactly how you like this is a great option if you really want to tweak your phone which is why a lot of people go with oneplus in the first place the rest of the design looks almost identical to the one plus 5 and that's not really a bad thing you've got the same almost too slippery aluminum back with the addition of that fingerprint sensor and amazingly for a new flagship in 2017 a headphone jack you're also getting solid performance with a snapdragon 835 6 or 8 gigs of ram and either 64 or 128 gigabytes of storage this is backed up with a 3300 milliamp hour battery while not massive with the lower res screen and oneplus is super fast - charging it makes it pretty easy to keep the phone topped off if this feels like a classic s model update - you then you'd be right I can't fault one Klaus for not totally overhauling the phone the original one plus five was really solid the issue was that it came out only five months ago look I'm all for pushing tech forward but it's kind of ridiculous that a five month old phone is already obsolete why didn't they just make the 1 + 5 t the 1 + 5 in the first place to be fair I feel the same about the way that Samsung updates the Galaxy S and note lines six months later it seems like you just get a slightly updated Galaxy s8 but at least with the note you're getting some major upgrades like the s-pen and dual cameras this strategy kind of worked last year with the 1 + 3 T but 2017 has proven to be one of the most competitive years for smartphones ever and nothing shows that off better it's in the Google pixel - I absolutely love this phone software updates have improved the excel screen but for me the standard pixel to check so many boxes that it's basically the gold standard put it side-by-side and it's clear that the 1 + 5 t is a much larger phone the smaller bezels absolutely dwarfed the pixel twos 5 inch display and having a headphone jack is a real win for a lot of people the 5g still only has a single downward firing speaker which actually does get reasonably loud and has some bass but it just can't match the terrific stereo speakers on the pixel the oneplus also lacks any kind of waterproofing or wireless charging know I can live without these but knowing that the pixel 2 isn't afraid of getting wet is a big selling point while oxygen OS is good as far as skins go I can't get away from just how great Android looks and feels running on the pixel to emily has it had Android Oreo since day one but it is blisteringly fast I've said it before and I'll say it again Google has worked some real magic with this phone one area where oneplus has really stepped it up is in the camera department the main wide-angle shooter is unchanged but they've swapped the telephoto option for a 20 megapixel secondary camera with this same focal length on one hand this is a downgrade as you don't get optical zoom however they're using the same camera to improve low-light performance it works side-by-side with the pixel it holds up really well with noise although it can't quite touch the pixel twos incredible dynamic range they've gone for a slightly punchy er more saturated look which I think most people will like but it comes to the expense of some detail even looking a bit soft at times you do have portrait mode on both and while the five T does an adequate job I really prefer the colors and that crazy range of the pixel to my eye it looks like a significantly more expensive camera this is what 4k video looks like only one plus five T so I think audio is actually surprisingly decent and the stabilization even though it's not optical does a pretty good job of keeping up the one plus five T is a great phone when you consider the $500 price it's easy to reconsider that Galaxy Note 8 or pixel to excel if you can look past the screen though I think these standard pixel two is worth every penny of the one hundred and fifty dollar price premium so what do you guys think above the 1 + 5 t let me know in the comments below and I will catch you in the next one