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everybody it's Lynn here and as one of CNET's dedicated phone reviewers tons and tons of phones come across my desk all the time but right now I'm here to talk about the phone I use every day and it's the one plus 5t keep in mind I actually do like this phone it's my daily Android driver for a reason it does tons of things well which I'll get into later but right now I kind of want to dig deep into the initial thoughts I had and what's changed since then keep in mind some of the things I talked about isn't so readily apparent when you first handle the phone so whatever I might sound overly critical or as I'd like to call it so one of the things I don't really like is facial recognition it doesn't work really well unless you kind of are in great lighting and you use it right in front of your face in this kind of unnatural motion it doesn't really work when you place it on your desk or even when you're hanging out and you're kind of like looking down on it and it has to kind of always have this thing and most of the time for me at least it doesn't really work so I kind of just use fingerprint ID which works a lot faster as you can tell another thing I hate is a new thing in the camera it actually changed from the one plus five to the five T and that's an aspect ratio it used to be sixteen by nine but now it's 18 by 9 and I just hate it because it zooms up so close to the subject that you're trying to take a picture of that I have to default to four by three which I hate that ratio it's the iPhone ratio and I just kind of missed the sixteen by nine I kind of want it back lastly and this isn't a knock on the phone itself with the company and it's just how it recently handled the credit card breach it affected a lot of users and it just seems that every launch there's always something whether it's the breach or collecting an inordinate amount of user data or benchmarks skewing it just seems like there's always something and the company should just do better their users deserve better and oneplus makes great affordable phones and for now a lot of people are willing to kind of overlook their missteps but you don't want to use up the last of your good graces you know now that that's over with I'm gonna go back to the stuff that I like I really like - charging believe the hype the battery is still great without it it still lasts really long but - charging will save you if you're in a pinch five minutes charging on this thing and you get 20% more battery don't quote me on that that's not exact but that's basically kind of what I've observed if you could afford it get the - charger for your car it saved my life a bunch of times so get it definitely recommend it another thing that I like that actually didn't expect to like that much and I just kind of grew to love it is reading mode it changes the screen to make it a sepia tone whenever you open certain apps and it makes reading really comfortable especially when I'm in bed at night I'm on these ABS reading thousand word articles or whatever and it just makes it more comfortable my eyes aren't strained it gives me that old newspaper feeling just getting that really and I thought I'd miss color pictures for this but not really it's fine I live it another thing that I like is individual app and lock it just adds an extra layer of security to certain apps of your choosing and the reason I like it is because my friends not as much anymore but before any time you left your phone and intended we would just take it and just start posting Facebook messages or something like that under your name and it got me super paranoid so now I put it on my Facebook app on my text messaging on my gallery or whatever my friends are really nice but it's just some that's the kind of environment that I grew up with socially so now I just kind of like it kind of keep it I put it on my you know text messages gallery it's just like an extra layer of security that I like oh one last thing that I'd like to add is you should always wait for more colors oneplus does the thing I'm not saying it's gonna do it every year or even this year with the next one but kind of every time they've launched a phone they've launched other colors after it this year with a 5 T it's white this pretty white one and red both looks really great but both are also super hard to find so if you're cool with scarcity and don't mind waiting a little bit want to see more of your options wait after a little bit when oneplus releases launches a phone and then see what kind of new color they have so that's it those are my takeaways three months after its lunch I still really really liked it and I still recommend it so yeah check it out yourself three two one so the two things I like I'm gonna start with I feel like I have hair on my arm sorry okay all right just chill okay and with the recent credit card beach reach beach go ahead bitch