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hey what's up guys I'm Kim PhD here and this is the final retail hardware of the oneplus 2 now I did do a previous video on the oneplus 2 my first impressions video which if you haven't already seen will be right there that was a pre-release hardware so this is exactly what people who buy the phone are going to be getting in the mail when they get their package so I'm going to do an unboxing video I haven't done one of those in a while but also I'll go a little bit further than that I'm going to set this phone up as my daily driver I'm going to put my sim card in this thing so you know it's legit so my first apps put my homescreen together and basically make it my daily phone so you get a little bit of insight on what I do when I get a new phone and I want to do that so that me further ado let's get into it so the oneplus 2 unboxing experience is obviously super simple right you just get the phone itself and then some paperwork and then the charging adapter and the USB type-c cable which is actually really nice it's this rubberized material and a flat anti-tangle shaped cord so everyone plus two comes with the sandstone black back which is very similar to last year's I'd say maybe a little bit more hard or more coarse but the back is also removable to drop in any other materials on the back via a style swap cover but first thing I'll do before setting up is drop my sim card in mine so I have a nano SIM and oneplus 2 actually has support for two nano SIM cards two sim card slots and I dropped my sim card in slot number one and we are good to go if this was a phone with a micro SD card slot I would also at this point install that too but I basically only use those for music then I went through all of the setup process for signing in to my Google account and then going all through the more specific oxygen OS specific oneplus two setups which include choosing between software and hardware buttons I'm going to take advantage of the whole display and use the hardware buttons and then also enabling any screen off our gestures which you may find useful both of these things can also of course at any time be enabled or changed later in the settings also I chose the Google keyboard here although that didn't seem to work and then I enabled shelf which is the leftmost homescreen on the oxygen OS launcher which I kind of like and then boom we are in also the oneplus two comes with this pre-installed screen protector on it but since I'm going on rogue here I'm going to take it off okay so at this point once I've signed into my Google account usually it takes a minute or two while everything gets situated and starts sinking because I have a lot of stuff in Google you know calendars contacts etc the phone has to pull all the stuff down then of course you got to make sure that I'm on the latest version of the OS so this one actually did require a quick update and then make sure you have the latest version of all the pre-installed apps veteran Google Play thankfully there's pretty much no bloatware with these new stock Android phones that's part of what I like so much about them but yeah I updated everything here and then it's just a matter of installing a few of my must-have apps for me the first app I install on I want to say pretty much every phone I get no joke is Dropbox I keep a lot of stuff in Dropbox including photo samples when I'm testing a camera and then I also like to grab wallpapers from my Dropbox and set it on the phone and I also side loaded the newest hangouts 4.0 app onto this phone which was a good opportunity to enable unknown sources and allow it to install any apk I want for future sideloading I also went in and switched over to the Google keyboard my favorite since it knows my typing pretty well already and for some reason it was still using Swift key even though I chose Google keyboard before so I set that again and then I grabbed a couple of my other most used apps like Phoenix for Twitter is one which I get a lot of questions about yes I think it's one of the best Twitter apps for Android and I do think it's worth like two bucks or whatever it costs I also grab pocket which is useful app for me when saving stuff I want to remember later and this will also be a good time to have it stop automatically adding icons for new apps to the homescreen that's always been bugging me when I first set up a phone so I'd uncheck that another app I use a lot Spotify I have a bunch of playlists there and I listen to music all the time especially when traveling so I always grab Spotify another one I've been using more recently is SoundCloud where you'll find I guess less popular music but still some really great stuff it lets me sign in with my Google account so it's really easy and yeah I'll try to link my soundcloud playlists or likes below if I can also Google Calendar is like my life so I pretty much always have a Google Calendar widget of some kind on any of my home screens the prettiest one right now is called today calendar widget it works best with some wallpapers better than others but it's basically a semi-transparent or even completely transparent if you want it to be a list of all your upcoming appointments which is super helpful for me in this agenda form then of course I like to go through the device settings itself like setting up a fingerprint if the device has a fingerprint reader and also specifically for the oneplus 2 for me setting up the home button actions to take advantage of the fact that it has a physical home button so I use a double tap to trigger the camera which is really quick by the way so that I don't have to have a camera icon anywhere on the home screens anymore and using a long press to get into Google now and then of course since I'm triggering Google now for the first time setting that up real quick I do use Google now a lot especially to trigger navigation so Google now is always nice to have last but not least here's a little pro tip to help the device even when it's brand new or not feel even faster than it already is go into the device settings and about phone and scroll down to the build number and then tap on that build number a bunch of times until it eventually says you are now a developer then go back into the settings and you should see a new option in the settings called developer options and in here is always a whole bunch of rightfully hidden more complex stuff that most people will never mess with but the one I always seem to go back to play with is animation speed and in custom roms like oxygen OS here you can choose slightly faster animation speeds throughout the OS so like 0.75 X makes all the animations on the phone take point seven five times the time and speeds it up a little bit you could even choose point five or even faster if you want but overall this makes the phone feel a lot quicker a lot snappier so there you have it that's my unboxing and setting up of the oneplus 2 let me know if you guys want to see especially in the full review basically as I test this phone over the next week or two hopefully we can put together a list to make this the most thorough comprehensive review possible thanks for watching this one and I'll talk to you guys the next one peace you