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hey what's up guys in kabhi AC here and we finally have it the hype is finally through we have the specs and the design and everything of the oneplus 2 officially official to the 5.5 inch display the 3300 milliamp hour battery the 13 megapixel camera the Snapdragon 810 4 gigabytes of RAM and USB type-c all in a pretty premium metal build that fits in the footprint of its predecessor so I was in the unique position of actually being able to use a oneplus 2 for the past couple weeks two weeks or so before launch which I guess looking at other articles and stuff not a lot of other people have had that so while I'm not about to drop a full on review video for you guys right now I do have a bunch of impressions after using this guy on and off for the past couple of weeks so these are five impressions I have of the oneplus 2 first off dat button I kind of dig it and when we heard that the oneplus 2 would have a fingerprint reader right there were some speculation about where it might be some thought it might be on the back of the phone some phones have it on the side but like the iPhone 6 and the galaxy s6 the oneplus 2 also puts it on the middle right on the home button which i think is the most convenient place to put it for using a fingerprint sensor you can use it without flipping the phone over to the back and it's not crazy hard to reach to unlock your phone the oneplus 2 fingerprint reader however is not like the galaxy s6 and it's not like the iphone 6 in the fact that it's not a physical pressing button it doesn't actually press down or click like other phones it's actually more of a touchpad that doesn't move like we saw on the HTC One m9 plus it still acts in the same way as a regular home button though so tapping it from anywhere brings you home and you can assign a specific action to a long press or a double tap of actually any of the bottom buttons so the default of the home button long press is to open Google now which I like and also I'm a double tapping the home button a camera shortcut just like the galaxy s6 but you can do whatever else you want in the software which is dope and of course you can also just hold down on the unlock screen to unlock the phone with your fingerprint and accuracy for me has been north of 90 percent I'd say it's pretty accurate and pretty quick I only have one registered finger but that's all I need is just one thumb and you can also hold down your registered finger on the home button when the display is off to get it to wake the phone and just into the UI so it reads your finger pretty fast and is ready to go I really like this feature also for those worried about the off-screen buttons first of all the left capacitive button is the back button by default and the right button is the multitasking carousel but you can switch them if you want to have it match other phones or disable them completely and just use on-screen buttons for those who are all about that Nexus feel so my impression number two is on battery life now again my last two weeks have been spent with a pre-release model so while it does appear pretty much identical to the final version things could still change by the time the final version ships to you guys but here's my experience battery life on the oneplus 2 is pretty good now what was my benchmark I was using a galaxy s6 edge alongside it for the past couple weeks so I guess it doesn't take a whole lot to impress me but really though for all the hoopla about the Snapdragon 810 going with a 1080p display while it may disappoint some members of team crispy is actually a really good move for the battery life Department standby time is really good and it lasted two days standby without a problem if I didn't use it much and during actually use I'm getting about four and a half hours of screen on time but again remember what I said this could change I ran a benchmark just for kicks since I had the time and we all know the oneplus one was a freak with battery life Geekbench gave that a battery score of 3606 with 6 hours of screen on time and it gave the oneplus 2 a battery score of 2871 with less than 5 hours of screen on time yeah b-minus for now impression number three is on USB type-c this is either one of the first or the first smartphones launching with a USB type-c port and if you're curious about what all this means you can watch the entire full-on explainer video I did about this new port I'll leave it linked right below bottom line here is it's not in microUSB anymore so you will need a new charger and obviously oneplus will ship you a charging cable I ended up actually using my Chromebook pixel charger because it's longer cable and it's still USB type-c and that also means no quick charging here so it took about three hours to charge up from 25% to full and I guess I was a little bit spoiled by the galaxy s6 battery obviously it's a smaller battery but it's also quick charge 2.0 and that thing charges like crazy fast so I got used to that so I guess the combination of a larger battery and a lack of quick charge from USB type-c made it feel even with the chromebook pixel charger kind of like a slow trickle but then again it shouldn't be that big of a deal if I'm only charging it once a day if it's lasting longer than the galaxy s6 and believe me it is lasting longer on battery in the galaxy s6 fourth impression is specifically on the thermals there been plenty of people wondering about the Snapdragon 810 does it get hot does it overheat is it going to burn me does this thing have thermal problems well so far nope the one thing the closest thing I can say about that is that it does get warm to the touch after using it for a long time or gaming for a while which is pretty normal and but it's never actually gotten so hot or gotten to the point where it's limited performance or functionality in any sort of noticeable way I don't know if you remember when I did my super early first impressions of the LG g3 what actually did do that after a certain point after a bunch of gaming it would say listen it's gotten too hot we're gonna limit your brightness because it needs to cool down but no such problems with my oneplus 2 in fact I think my Galaxy s6 has probably gotten just as warm to the touch especially after a lot of gaming right along these metal rails but neither of them has actually had any problems just for kicks here's a thermal image of the galaxy s6 edge up top and the oneplus 2 on the bottom after some light gaming after about 5 minutes the oneplus 2 here is 2 degrees Fahrenheit warmer on the back by the camera again neither have any problems and then after some heavy gaming for about half an hour here's the oneplus 2 definitely very warm to the touch but as far as I could tell no difference in performance or function finally impression number 5 is that the whole software experience is very clean it's it's oxygen OS version 2 it's a super close to stock Android experience but with some added features kind of like CyanogenMod first of all the custom button on the side of the phone is awesome it acts as a quick switch between showing all notifications prior any mode or do not disturb mode and I use this at least once a day and then there are also some other nice features like the ability to rearrange the icons and the quick settings and save that there's also a toggle to enable a system-wide dark theme which looks pretty nice it basically reverses the colors in a guest like the Settings app and uses cyan accents you can go into app permissions also kind of like Android M and revoke certain permissions from apps that don't seem to need it even though this isn't a rom based on Android M this is a cool feature to see and there's a couple of other things too of course I've done an entire video just on oxygen OS bakwin version 1.0 came out for the 1+1 so if you want to check that out see what it's all about I'll leave a link to that video right below that like button and those are my early impressions so if your clamoring for more oneplus stuff definitely check out my camera review which I did specifically all about the oneplus 2 use camera and comparing it to other flagships and stuff and that's essentially it if you follow me on Twitter they get more impressions and stuff as I build up all my stuff for the full review so subscribe to be among the first to see that and that's basically it thanks for watching and I'll talk to you guys in the next one bass