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OnePlus 5 Review - Is This The Best $500 Phone?

2017-06-20
hey how's it going Dave QD here and this is the one plus five and one plus is a company which at this point doesn't need an introduction this is their flagship phone for 2017 I think this is the best-looking one plus phone to date it has a double camera on the back and because they place it in the top left corner it's going to look similar to the iPhone 7 plus it's a very clean and minimal looking design super thin phone it's coming at 7.25 millimeters it's the thinnest phone yet and I like how it looks I think a lot of people will mistake this for an iPhone 7 plus I guess depending on who you are or what you want your phone to do that could be a good thing or a bad thing I don't love the antenna lines I know they have to be somewhere but these look a little too Apple II for me and if you want to hide them you can just get a skin from dbrand that'll also protect the finish and make it less slippery I'll leave a link for them below it has great build quality again and in its naked form it's comfortable to hold but it's really smooth I'm not sure if it's the anodization process or the finish of the metal but it's a very slick device it has the alert slider again with three positions and an LED notification that has user customizable colors the display is still five and half inches and it's still 1080p and I think it's the right choice outside of VR because it's like the perfect balance between good resolution and good battery life it has - charge again if you're not familiar with - charge it's basically really fast charging for the phone the oneplus 3-headed and i got to be honest i think this is the best feature of the entire oneplus line if you ever fall asleep and you don't charge your phone when you wake up in the morning you're like oh my god I have no battery you plug it in for 20 minutes while you're getting ready and you're good to go for most of the day now there's a few things that haven't changed that I'm not a fan of they didn't change the position of the fingerprint sensor and I know this is a subjective thing I would have preferred it on the back and just prefer them on the back it's still in the front and it still only has a single speaker on the bottom I know a lot of people don't care about that but it's something I care about and it's also not IP rated it's probably water-resistant to some degree it's just not officially certified with any kind of number it's running oxygen OS again and a lot of companies put a thick coat of like third-party sauce on their software I've always liked the way that oxygen OS feels it's basically stock but with a few extra tweaks to give it some more function out so a few things that have changed it has Bluetooth 5.0 so you get better speeds better range and support for two headphones at once it's running a Snapdragon 835 and it uses some speedy u FS 2.1 memory so the combination of a fast processor with fast storage makes it very zippy when doing anything so when you're unlocking the phone launching the camera launching apps using apps it's a quick phone the battery is 3300 milliamp hours which is bigger than one plus three but smaller than the one plus three T that was thirty four hundred millionth errors and there were rumors there would be four thousand milliamp hours it's not it's 3300 but because of the more efficient processor the oneplus 5 has better battery life than the previous generations it's still a full day battery though it's not even close to being a two day battery but with - charge on this thing I'm content with battery life there's another thing I need to mention oneplus as a company has matured over the years and one of the issues that had in the beginning was customer service I had one of the original oneplus ones and I had a nightmare returning that thing for repairs it was just I think was like a 2 or 3 month process and it's just jumping through hoops and flames was just not a fun process 1 + 3 T a week and a half two weeks without a phone sent it back no issues and if you fill in forms you look at XDA or just go on reddit their customer service has improved so much over the years at this point in time I would consider them equal to some of the bigger companies out there now the big upgrade this year is the camera dual camera system with a lot of bloods about this thing because oneplus announced that they were working with DX l mark to make something pretty awesome and well i think it is so right off the RIP the camera launches super fast and that's step one of any good smartphone camera double-click in your in photos I took in well-lit environments look great the colors look proper nothing feels oversaturated or over-processed photos and low-light look good as well as long as it's not too dark there exposed properly this is obviously some grain but it's nothing too bad I did notice though when it's really dark the camera seems to overcompensate and tries to make it brighter than it needs to and it just ends up looking really grainy the autofocus is fast and it has portrait modes from the dual cameras for some of that creamy bokeh but the most impressive thing to me was the dynamic range on this camera so dynamic range is how well a camera can differentiate between the dark and brightest areas of a single photo so this is a photo of the Sun and some buildings this is a very difficult shot to capture the Sun is so bright that everything else is going to look dark in comparison this is how the 1+5 captures it it's pretty good right I think the camera on this thing is really solid now image quality is subjective and it's kind of hard to crown one as like the best camera or the winner of the cameras but I will say this at this price point that sub $500 price point this thing has the best camera right now now speaking of price the one plus five cost four hundred and eighty dollars for the 64 gig model which makes it really price competitive the one plus five is packed with awesome hardware for the money it's like the poster boy of the appropriately price smartphone it has a premium aluminum build the little slippery get a D brand skin for it it has a five and a half inch 1080p screen and it's got a fingerprint sensor up front on the back we have the dual camera system 16 megapixel main shooter 20 megapixel telephoto and combined they deliver some very impressive photos especially in regards to dynamic range inside it's packed with the fast processor fast storage and six gigs of RAM for the base model the upgraded model has eight gigs of RAM if you're interested and then the battery is 3300 milliamp hours and it will comfortably last you a full day of heavy use there are a lot of phones in the sub $500 market and a lot of them are good but I've had to make a recommendation right now in mid 2017 it would be this one one plus five really impressed with it this year hope you guys enjoy this video thumbs be liked it subsequent it see you guys next time
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