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hey what is up guys I'm qHD here and this is the one plus five and just like every smartphone in the past three years there's been leaks there's been rumors there's been renders there's been speculation but now it's real it's here in the flesh and this is everything you need to know so one plus is history is actually pretty limited and they're a young small company and because they're a small company they actually don't have the access to all this super high-end tech that the apples and Samsung's and Motorola's and HTC is of the world do that's a disadvantage but the advantage to being a small company is you can actually listen to what your core fan base and what your core customers actually want and try to give them that exact product so one plus 5 is another incremental improvement over 1 plus 3t with a few big bullet point changes and a couple minor touch-ups so first thing you'll notice is the insane specs you can tell it's an enthusiast brand here snapdragon 835 Adreno 546 or 8 gigabytes of ram at 64 or 128 gigabytes of storage a dual camera system on the back 16 and 20 megapixel cameras bluetooth 5.0 a 3300 milliamp hour battery and a 5.5 inch 1080p AMOLED display and of course an updated unibody metal design okay so not bad let's break it all down the all-new design is what's turning heads this time you saw the renders and then you saw all the replies you probably saw all the YouTube comments Oh from the back it looks like an iPhone they're copying Apple they've become a copycat company I don't see I only agree with some of this I mean obviously the render is when we saw them from that one angle that obviously looks like an iPhone because it's got the dual camera system up in the top left corner okay I get that but honestly if you look at the whole entire body of the phone it does resemble some other phones even more so than this one seriously how are these not the same phone if they've kept a lot of the design cues from previous one cell phones from the three and the three T with you know the alert slider of course and the ports on the bottom and USB type-c it's kind of like a Frankenstein smartphone design pulling parts from a bunch of different places but then again how much do you actually look at the back of your phone I mean honestly it actually has to feel good more than has to look good and this one does it's seven and a half millimeters thin it's got all these rounded sides it's all metal but you don't have to look at it as much as you have to feel it and the one plus five is a good feeling phone they kept that alert slider which I like and always got used to pretty quickly and of course they kept the fingerprint reader up at the front the same like last year in the year before same size same position also the design is kind of limited because the only colors you can actually get this phone in are literally black and almost black which I love matte black that's great but obviously if you want some variety you can grab a skin I'll link to these below it's a D brand skin and that's easily my favorite way to add color to it without adding the bulk of a case I highly recommend them so this does mean you're not getting the big bezel if display is that a lot of phones have been moving to this year and that we expected of the new iPhone and the new pixel etc we still have some pretty thin side bezels here but it's definitely not quite the same effect actually found it interesting that in the Verge's exclusive video of like the making of this phone that they dropped yesterday they actually admitted like they would have liked to have done something like an infinity display or a bezel the screen but they just don't have the tech to do it that's another disadvantage of being a small company now the dual camera system on the back before we even get to photo quality is already pretty interesting first of all it's it's the headlining new feature it's on the box right twice so it's clearly what they want you to focus on no pun intended but it is a 16 megapixel F 1.7 primary camera with electronic image stabilization and then a 20 megapixel F 2.6 telephoto camera as a secondary on a paper that looks pretty good and then when you open up the new camera app you'll notice it is a blatant copy of the iPhone camera app no doubt about that the 1 X 2 2 X button for switching between the lenses is their settings in the strip on the Left shutter button on the right it's pretty basic and then the slider of course between the One X and the 2 X I'm zooming in it's definitely a copy here and no one can really deny that here's the thing I've always said I don't really mind if you copy stuff but if you're going to copy something copy the good stuff so if you're going to copy the iPhone one best and most popular phones out there then yeah sure copied the camera copy the fingerprint reader don't copy the bad stuff don't copy like Siri or something takes B so this one X 2 2 X button and the slider and everything in the camera it's kind of the best way to do it so I don't mind not being a copy at all so how are the photos well they're pretty good there's no doubt that the sensor is capable of some pretty great clean photos again I wish it had optical image stabilization but essentially this camera is a hit or miss experience I've been taking photos with this camera for more than a week now and in just like everyday scenarios and a lot of them turn out really nice some of them though you'll notice turn out a little weird dynamic range is pretty much always great snapdragon 835 can handle taking multiple exposures at the same time so you'd expect it to be great and detail is pretty much always on point the center of the frame and whatever's in focus is always sharp colors and image processing were pretty average I feel like nothing was pushed too far in contrast of saturation except maybe the Reds a little bit because sometimes they got oversaturated but otherwise it's pretty subjective whether you like the look of a photo or not I think objectively it'll score high on camera benchmark tests because it's very fast very sharp and has huge dynamic range but side-by-side with the same shot from pixel or an iPhone it could be a toss-up which is quite good for a phone at this price and then there's the portrait mode from the secondary telephoto camera honestly overall this wasn't any better than the same attempts from the iPhone 7 plus but also not worse kind of struggles with complex edges but for the most part it does a good job blurring background obviously it does a much better job on humans than it does on less predictable less portrait subjects and it still has some weird halo effects near the edges but just overall doesn't quite match having a naturally shallow depth-of-field obviously so if you're into it you can use it I think it'll get better with time with software updates like apples has you know apples was awful when it first came out and was in beta but it's learned and it's gotten better over time with portraits and I think this one will too but right now it's right in line with what we've already seen so nothing's super new here also you might be wondering why the secondary telephoto sensor with the worst aperture gets the 20 megapixel sensor while the primary gets the 16 megapixel but their logic to that is pretty simple it's that when you're doing all that zooming and you go way zoomed in you're using all the data from the telephoto sensor so you want it to be a higher resolution so make sense so beyond the design and the camera and the specs a couple more minor things are new and a lot of the rest is the same stuff we've seen from previous one plus phones it's great stuff but the same stuff so battery here is 3300 milliamp hours so not bigger it's actually 100 million powers smaller than the 3t but the battery life is about the same alas comfortably all day thanks to the chip and the display and that display that 1080p AMOLED display this is probably the thing that's going to get looked at as the biggest downside of a phone when you compare it to the more expensive flagships but those are all the phones that enthusiasts are also considering buying so you kind of have to note those all have 1440p displays or higher so it's really easy to say oh this is 1080p - must be awful but I'd always challenge those people to really look at the display and tell if it really does look that much worse I mean when I first got it first took out the Box when it was brand new didn't even look at the spec sheet and try to just look at it and tell if I could see if it's a 1080p display or did they finally move to 1440p and it took me more than just a glance so it's a pretty good display gets bright enough has pitch-black blacks from being AMOLED etc it's good and then of course that 1080p display also means performance is a plus a Snapdragon 835 with the audrina 540 and eight gigs of ram of course all pushing near stock Android on a 1080p display it better not hiccup this thing flies through Android and that's its biggest asset I think super smooth performance tons of apps stay in memory for a long time haven't had any memory leak issues and that's credit to oneplus keeping the same software philosophy again near stock Android with a couple of improvements no skin really no big overlay just a couple tweaks thrown in here and there in the settings that they believe will improve the experience so you can do things like switch between the off screen or on-screen buttons again with one plus five you can still mess with the shelf to the left of the home screen by adding widgets to it or messing with the built-in widgets that one plus includes or you can disable it completely your call there's also now a gaming do not disturb mode which halts all banner notifications from popping up when certain apps like games are open the camera app now has a pro mode which lets you go full-on with manual mode for every thing you know aperture focus distance white balance ISO etc and it shoots raw and it even has the level and a live histogram for exposure the extended screenshot mode is pretty cool you start the extended screenshot mode and it literally starts scrolling infinitely until you tell it to stop and then that's where the screenshot ends it's pretty intuitive and it's just kind of fun to watch so well done - charging still awesome so if you're a super heavy user and you get through this whole thing in a day it recharges as fast as any other smartphone out there bluetooth 5.0 is onboard NFC is not skipped this time the vibration motor is a lot stronger and louder and more noticeable so if you're into that that's important and the microphones are also improved now - so for recording video and super loud environments these will do better so it was the oneplus 5 worth your money well if you can get over the design if you're not one of those people who just wants to say looks like an iPhone if you can get over that then yeah this is definitely a great phone there's not a whole lot that you can get with a snapdragon 835 and eight gigs of ram and near stock android so if you can get over the design and not having an infinity display I think this is going to be a great phone for the money and I'll give it a thumbs up don't get one if you can I think you'll enjoy it that's pretty much it thank you for watching that's not the as the next one