Gadgetory

you know it seems like everyone and their dog is into throwing big product announcement events these days and today it's one pluses turn in New York City and they sponsored my trip out there to check it out thanks guys but you might have noticed that instead of this video being thrown together slapdash on the show floor I am at home in Canada with my very own one +62 unbox and show off that's because oneplus had the good sense to mail me one early so I could take my time thank you smart people over there so I'm gonna grab a coffee and then have a look at what's new this is one plus 16 one of the first things you'll notice about the sixteen is that the matte glass back has no fingerprint sensor just a oneplus logo under the two lenses that has the same hardware as last time around with some software tweaks that is because the sixty has one of the most hotly anticipated features of the year and under screen fingerprint sensor it's really cool it's fast the little animation makes it feel kind of futuristic and I know I don't speak for everyone but I've always preferred fingerprint scanners on the front of the device versus the back because I like being able to use them even when they're resting on the table and this implementation lets you do just that and that's without having a thick hardware button equipped chin bar below the screen oneplus also told me that my preview of their oxygen OS doesn't have it yet but if you continue to hold down the scanner after the phone has been unlocked they're adding a customizable app shortcut bar that will pop up nice so the under screen reader is pretty sweet and closely related to the next head-turning aspect of the 16 the knotch or the not oh that's terrible but it's justified because it's been considerably shrunk down since last year increasing the screen to body ratio more than two percent and also making one pluses approach among the least obtrusive designs that I've seen despite still packing in the front camera and the three-in-one ambient light color temperature and distance sensor making matters even better in typical one class fashion you do still have the option of turning off the AMOLED pixels beside the not and just pretending that it isn't there though I mean by now so much of the notification bar is preserved that I actually can't say that I recommend doing that anymore now I would still prefer some kind of magic camera under the screen or something like that maybe that will come in the future but for the time being this approach makes way more sense to me than the completely panoramic designs that exist now like ah pose find X or vivos and XS they're really slick but the mechanical action that they rely on to function smoothly in the long term is still unproven at best especially after the device has been you know dropped a few times which well you know speaking of dropping stuff also knew what the sixteenth is Corning's next generation Gorilla Glass six now Gorilla Glass 5 was designed to withstand one big sumo braid drop from selfie height and we actually saw one pluses internal validation of these claims at their factory earlier this year but the new glass is meant to do that plus withstand multiple smaller drops surviving up to 15 drops from a height of 1 meter in corning zone testing not that everyone wants to take the risk so fortunately there's a couple more safety accessories in the box and I have to say it's a pretty nice unboxing experience overall the phone has a screen protector pre applied and there's a transparent condom type case then there's two items you won't even find in the box of a $1500 iPhone 10 as Mac's a fast charging capable wall charger and a USB see two three and a half millimeter audio dongle honestly I'm not angry I'm just well I'm just disappointed as all you were supposed to be the chosen one the phone for Android enthusiasts who don't have a thousand bucks to spend on a pixel 3xl first we had that little incident with the wireless headphones and then found these in your dresser drawer you're making USB C headphones now on the software side the 60 has the new oxygen OS 9 based on Android Pi and as always it is one of the best oh we an Android implementations only deviating from stock Android to give you meaningful customizations I'm a really big fan of their quick launch gestures like the three finger screenshot oh yeah let's do that one look at that or drawing an O to launch the camera or an M to launch maps or whatever app it is that you setup and what's really cool is that they make even more sense now because once you're eventually asked to unlock the device boom your fingerprint sensors right there you don't even have to reposition your hand to hit it nice bonus so overall 60 is looking like a really nice upgrade especially considering the price there's still no formal IP water resistance rating which I would have liked to see but we get a 500 milliamp hour battery capacity upgrade which thanks to oxygen os's efficiency should be a huge boost in actual usability we get a slightly larger 6.4 inch display increasing the pixel count ever so slightly and taking the aspect ratio from nineteen by nine to nineteen point five by nine and we get six gigs of ram with a hundred and twenty eight gigs of storage on the base model now up from 64 gigs last time around and all of that is for an extra twenty US dollars then on the high-end model the RAM and storage stay the same but for the first time oneplus isn't shifting their pricing up with the new generation so as long as you're willing to bid farewell to your collection of wired headphones there's not much here to not like so thanks to oneplus for sponsoring this video thanks to you guys for watching if you disliked this video you can hit that button but if you liked it hit like get subscribed to maybe consider checking out where to buy that stuff we featured at the link in the video description also down there is our merch store which has cool shirts like ok we don't sell house kokichi get house we should get a house coat ah cool shirts like the ones I usually wear and our community forum which you should totally join I'm in New York hey I'm walking here