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the one plus five T is here and while its name might induce cold sweat flashbacks to your algebra days it's actually a pretty powerful and inexpensive phone with a few new physical changes from the one plus five earlier this year including smaller screen bezels and moving the home button to the back of the phone it warrants a new durability test so let's get started oneplus had the guts to send a sealed retail version of the phone to me I've never had a one plus phone failed my test yet but there's a first time for everything the scratch test is first and sneaky enough this phone comes with a pre-installed high quality plastic screen protector but for the sake of the scratch test I'll pull that off it is nice of oneplus to include it though this most scratch test tells us what the screen is made out of plastic screen phones would scratch at level three tempered glass starts scratching at a five or six and sapphire and ceramic starts scratching at level eight the one plus five T is using 2.5 D Gorilla Glass 5 and naturally scratches at a level 6 with a deeper groove at a level 7 that sentence did have a lot of numbers going on but the funny part is you still understood it there is no home button at the bottom of the screen anymore it's been relocated to make room for the much larger screen which I'm a fan of at the top of the phone we have a 16 megapixel front facing camera that records in 1080p it's under the same glass as the screen we also have a metal grill covering the earpiece it sits pretty flush with the glass so there won't be much dirt or metal shavings getting caught inside the slot the back of the phone is where the fingerprint scanner is located right in the center away from the camera initially I thought I was going to be made out of plastic but it turns out oneplus has kept the basically invincible ceramic material from previous phones and used it on this 5t this scanner is unscratched while thumbs up for that physical damage will not be a problem for this thing keys on the other hand just kidding those don't leave a mark either anodized aluminum like this is coated with super hard aluminium oxide which is acting as an abrasive to the softer metal on my keys the anodizing is pretty thin though so drops and razors might tell a different story against the 1 plus 5t personally I was real good at math up until they started mixing the alphabet all over there but don't even get me started on the number 8 it is one of the hardest numbers to divide in half if you divide 8 horizontally you get 0 and if you divide 8 vertically you get 3 but according to my report card in school neither of these were the right answer razor blade marks don't rub off though so try to avoid doing your homework on the phone the dual led single tone flash is plastic but that's fine the important part is the lens of the camera and that does remain scratch resistant my razor blade leaves no mark on the 16 or 20 megapixel cameras these are not super wide angle or telephoto unfortunately just doing that portrait mode thing I personally would prefer having one different lens included instead of having two of the same but at least this whole phone is cheaper than one back glass replacement on the iPhone 10 that really shows which company puts their customers first the volume button is made from metal and this guy up here which I feel every phone should have is a mute switch also made from metal the dual SIM card tray does not have an SD card slot but it's also made the metal the top of the phone doesn't have much to look at but there's still plenty of metal up here and the bottom of the phone is where the party starts we have a USB see - charge enabled charging port along with our good buddy jack recently neglected with both the Google pixel and iPhones it's good to see he's still around the glass layer of the screen does have a plastic cushion between the metal frame of the phone and the glass this helps keep the pressure off the glass if the phone has ever dropped or bent and finally it's time to burn test this six inch AMOLED display this 18 by 9 aspect ratio is pretty similar to what we're seeing on the Galaxy s8 at the moment I got about 20 seconds out of the display before it turned white and never recovered and now for the bin test oneplus has never failed my test before and it's time to see if these new design upgrades messed with the build quality there is a slight flex to the phone but then it locks out not allowing the phone to flex any further there is no crinkling near the power button or separation of the display from the body even though separation wouldn't technically be a bad thing for this phone since one-plus isn't bragging about any water resistance but the 1 + 5 t does pass the bin test from both sides other than the lack of water resistance and the lack of wireless charging this is an incredibly full-featured and useful phone with a price point low enough to benefit the customer I'd be proud to have this phone in my pocket the only thing left to find out now is if the red battery is back inside the phone yet we'll find out during the teardown hit that subscribe button if you haven't already and come hang out with me on Twitter I'll have that teardown posted soon thanks a ton for watching and I'll see you around