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oneplus has just announced his first ever collaboration with supercar manufacturer McLaren very exciting and already I have their phone the oneplus 60 McLaren Edition here factory sealed in its packaging just ready for me to rip into it and see what's inside so let's do just that I mean it already starts off being very McLaren it's orange and we've got salute to speed of course on the front I brought a tool ready to crack in see this carefully surgical precision some may say well done go away safely slide off the box and of course carbon fiber patterning something that McLaren uses a lot in its cars let's open this up how does this just a lid opens this way and we have more salute to speed inside and the words fast and smooth why so let's first take a look at this book which have a launch event they made a big deal about the fact that this is packaged as a book you open it up dedicated to those in constant pursuit of speed shouldn't that be in the constant maybe I don't know maybe know we have some words about Bruce McLaren we have the truth track of the 1968 Belgian Grand Prix and there why what else do we have more more words there is actually this is actually a whole book it talks about oneplus as beginnings it talks about MacLaren's beginnings and in the launch event they tried to talk a lot about how both companies have similar background I don't really think they do but you know I'm not going to argue if they've spent all this time in trying to develop this story there we go okay lots more pages lots more words these books are limited edition of course so you're not going to find them necessarily on the shelves of your local and WH Smiths but hey that's why we're here we'll probably show a bit more close-ups on these on another occasion now we're getting something about the phone one +60 McLaren Edition inspired by f1 10 gig of ram 10 gig of ram that is a lot of ram arguably too much ram in fo snapdragon 845 + 10 gig of ram and 256 gigabytes of storage that is huge also it has what they call walk charge 30 that's one plus as we fast charging systems and it claims that you can get a whole day of youth from just 20 minutes of charging but it's something that is really appealing because I often don't charge my phone in US and then suddenly find a need to go out and I've got no battery left so what's at the end of this book it's the phone itself isn't that exciting on the last page you open it up and there it is we can take this out carefully does it and we start to see it covered in stickers let's peel these off first of all if we don't need these stickers and we don't need this barcode it's ruining all our fun quick polish because I've got my finger prints over it already so there we are we have the phone the 60 it's black it's shiny and beneath the surface you will see this very very faint pattern of carbon 5 + r1 + talk to loss about the carbon fiber that McLaren users now I'm a little disappointed that it hasn't actually used carbon fiber this is just for show it is just an expect it isn't carbon fiber but what we do have subtly around the bottom now I don't know if the light is catching this properly under these cameras but there is this little hint of orange around the bottom edge now that is the papaya orange which McLaren uses in a lot of its cars otherwise the phone is physically identical to the 60 we've got this fuel camera sensor at the top and we have this all screen front with just this little teardrop notch on the front now of course it's time for the most satisfying thing on any new phone and that is of course peeling off the screen protector always a good moment ok let's fire this thing up and while that's doing that you know you may not even do that oh it is it buzzed there we go one plus powered by Android of course we'll take a look at what else we've got inside this box of course we have a case its carbon fiber effects with oneplus logo and the McLaren logo down at the bottom we have a special edition orange weaved charging cable USB see of course to show off the McLaren color and we have a black and orange oneplus charger and again with the McLaren logo and is this charger that will let you do the superfast charge that this phone has if you don't use this charger you won't get those benefits so try not to lose this one it's bright orange it's difficult to lose now the other thing that comes in this box which one + were very very proud about is this salute to speed block now in here is an actual piece of carbon fiber in the shape of the McLaren swushi logo thing and they've told they said that in all the phones that they are making and they have this limited edition but haven't said exactly how many but there are six f1 cars worth of carbon fiber that they've used in making all of these little blocks it says salute to speed McLaren MCL 33 edition carbon fiber 2018 handcrafted in England down in Woking where the actual launch event took place at the mclaren HQ now that looks like all the actual exciting stuff in the box there is a USB and there's a USB C headphone adapter with a little splash of the orange again and this is just manuals it's just manuals but again there's a lot of the orange there and the McLaren logo is all over the place we can go out to the phone itself now get rid of all this and we are in the phone and already with kind of seeing nothing else in the phone which is McLaren based the software is pretty much the same as you will find on any other phone any other oneplus phone except that I have noticed that there is some little tweak to the interface to bring that orange color into the software but I think that's pretty much about it really the the point of having this McLaren branded phone is to have that McLaren logo down here at the bottom to have the carbon fiber effect and this orange bit of line on the bottom this phone is only about 70 pounds more than the top spec normal one plus 60 this comes in at 649 pounds which isn't a bad price for a phone with 10 gig of ram 256 gig of storage that's even before you add in there's this special McLaren stuff so it's often the case you've seen before when phone companies have partnered with automotive brands like Porsche design phones or some of the lamborghini special edition phones we've seen from other companies they cost thousands of pounds because they think oh we've put in this fancy car name let's charge loads more for this phone actually they haven't done that with this this is a very very reasonable price for this handset and I think it looks pretty cool no it isn't a massive overhaul of anything it isn't a completely different phone it's very much still at 60 but boost it a little bit and if you're particularly keen on racing and you're particularly keen on the McLaren brand this is probably a phone to look out for but do let us know what you think of the one +60 McLaren Edition you can leave your comment in the box below make sure to LIKE and subscribe to seen it for a 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