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the one plus six has been durability tested cleared and now it's time to review the flagship killer from the inside I'll be focusing on water resistance this time around oneplus doesn't have an official IP rating on this phone like other flagships have and it's time to find out why let's get started the back glass is our first defense against water when I remove the back panel during the clear one plus six video there was plenty of adhesive all around the back side of the phone effectively sealing off the largest hole against water some phones have more adhesive than others I'd say the oneplus has more adhesive than an LG phone but less than a samsung I'll use my red pry tool to unclip the long fingerprint scanner from the motherboard releasing the back glass panel then I'll unplug the red custom battery I still have my fingers crossed that oneplus will go back to making red batteries on their own someday but we'll see what happens normally there's a green pull tab to release the 3300 milliamp power square I'll just leverage my now since it's already been removed once now for the brains of the phone to get at the motherboard we have nine screws holding down the top plastics the interesting thing about these screws is that they have red thread Locker on them normally the thread Locker is blue but I'm always down for the little red details I can pop off the top plastic from the frame once the screws are out giving us our first look at the NFC coil this does all of its communication through the gold contact pads that rest up against the motherboard on the underside of the plastic I'll unclip the displayed ribbon cables and the charging port ribbon the mute sliding switch looks pretty cool and then I'll remove the one screw holding down the motherboard right there in the center the next ingress point is the SIM card tray know normally when we look at an iPhone or a Samsung there's a little bit more substantial rubber ring around the end of the SIM card tray this one plus dual SIM slot does have rubber but it seems to be pretty minimal at the opening we'll come back to this later I'll unclip two wire cables down at the side of the phone and then one last little Lego style connector up there by the earpiece and the whole one plus six motherboard can pull away from the frame of the phone there's no heat pipes or a thermal paste on the one plus six which you would normally find in flagships time will tell if that's important or not if the phone starts lagging from heat down the road we'll know it probably needed some extra heat dissipation for the processor up at the top of the phone is a microphone hole usually this helps with noise cancelling and the inner side of that hole is protected by a water-resistant mesh which I just punctured so far oneplus has done a good job of keeping water out another big hole to worry about is the earpiece the earpiece speaker pulls out easy enough and between the speaker and the outside grille is another large piece of that same mesh this little guy is sealed around the edges and you can see from this water droplet it keeps water from leaking inside of the phone granted there is no pressure right now on that droplet so if the phone was submerged or there was a jet of water on the grill from like a shower head it would have more pressure and possibly penetrate that mesh but at least there's resistance in place I'll get the speaker back in and move on to something else unique about this phone the button housing it's got its own little capsule inside of the frame where the metal button touches the electronic switch which then transfers the signal to the golden contact pads that rest against the motherboard and this masive metal probably also helps keep water out the motherboard is next with its dual rear camera units remember the main camera is in the center with 16 megapixels and oh is that Hardware stabilization but the top camera is a 20 megapixel sensor without oh is still seems a little redundant to me I think they should swap it out for telephoto or wide-angle but it can shoot 4k at 60 frames per second so I'm not complaining too much the front camera is another 16 megapixel sensor with no optical stabilization just electronic let's jump into the bottom of the phone it's actually pretty cool down here and there are eight screws holding down the loudspeaker plastics and the whole thing can pull away from the bottom of the phone it's got its own water-resistant mesh on the opening of the speaker and also inside the speaker under this little circular sticker we find a foam ball pit for ants this probably also helps with sound dampening I'll do a little more research and figure it out for sure but until then it's a party pit for ants there are a few more ribbon cables under the plastic the screen ribbon unsnaps like a little Lego along with the white wire cable the middle ribbon and the headphone jack has its own Lego connector as well this little guy has a rim of red rubber around the opening just like we've seen with the water-resistant LG and Samsung phones rubber matches the little latch we took off from the fingerprint scanner earlier thumbs up for aesthetics I'll remove the circuit board and we get our a little circular vibration motor with its gold contacts and then we have two screws holding down the USBC charging port I'll pop that out and get some more red rubber around in the opening so far the water resistance of this one plus six is on par with other flagships that actually do have an IP rating every hole seems to be protected there is even an additional screen over the loudspeaker holes so there are some ingress points that have even doubled up on water protection I'll get the charging port screwed back into place I personally would never risk my electronics around water and I'm not exactly sure why oneplus didn't get an official IP rating for the phone but from the inside it looks like this one plus six has all of the same protections that other ip67 phones have extra protection is always a good thing and accidents happen so it's nice of one-plus to add it all for us I got the loudspeaker back into place with its eight screws and I'll tuck the motherboard into place making sure none of the ribbons are pinched under the board screen replacements are pretty standard by the way everything has to come out of the phone then heats used to separate the screen from the frame and then the old metal frame is reused with the new screen pretty similar to other glass back phones there are a few water damage indicators inside the phone just in case water does get in oneplus will be able to tell the white box has bleed red when they get wet there's one down by the charging port and another one here by the SIM card tray once again it's always a smart idea to keep your phone away from water the back plastics are all in place and screwed down tight I'll slide my custom red battery in and clip the fingerprint scanner back into place after getting all of the adhesive ready for the glass overall it's a pretty straightforward design much more water resistant than I anticipated and everything still works do you think oneplus should make a foam ball pit for regular-sized people let me know down in the comments come hang out with me on Twitter and Instagram and thanks a ton for watching I'll see you around