Gadgetory

so this is a pretty great phone so I've been using one plus six everyday now for about two weeks and it is absolutely daily driver material I think people who buy it who know what they're getting themselves into will like it a lot and it's pretty easy to recommend so that's right off the top really the more interesting part is reviewing this phone for me has become an exercise in a study of the law of diminishing returns the law of diminishing returns is a point at which the level of benefits gained is less than the amount of money or energy invested so you see a 300 hour phone you get a certain amount of value then you spend 300 hours more and you get a lot more value you spend 300 dollars more than that you get a little more value and then you spend another $400 more and you get just a tiny bit more so honestly the most important feature of the 1 plus 6 is the price it starts at 529 bucks in this world of 7 800 $900,000 flagship so they're kind of working in the reverse direction instead of pushing value as high as you possibly can they're kind of thinking how much can we cut off of the price without sacrificing a significant amount of value how cheap can we make this phone and still make it great and every year one plus does this they have to make this balance of things they want to cut out versus things they want to keep and I think this year they've made a bunch of good choices and come out with a balanced budget performance beast so this year is a 2018 version of that I'll give you the updates of what I found from my experience which is most of it being positive and then I'll fill you went on the short cut so the shavings they had to take because you don't get to this price without some of these so on the outside the build is legit awesome the actual look of the phone might not speak to everyone but I'm a fan of the midnight black here or the matte black version while there's also a much glossy er much fingerprint here mayor black and I was also a soft white coming soon it has these awesome buttons I love these clicky buttons it has the alert slider that's firm and also clicky and I was actually confusing it with the power button pretty early when I first got this phone just because of the placement it's kind of high but after using it for a while I stopped doing that and the whole phone has this nice wedge shape phones don't necessarily have to be thin for me to like them but this phone feels super solid with a lot of metal in there it has a headphone jack it has a dual SIM card tray and it even has this subtle S shape when you see it in the frosted glass back it's clean so overall it honestly looks and feels quality it has the slight bump in the back to the camera that's not really a big deal but for the emissions there are some conscious choices that they made to leave out of this phone that they're hoping that you won't mind so much so ready for these there's no expandable storage just dual SIM cards so no micro SD card expansion the speaker situation is pretty weak it just has this single downward facing speaker which is the worst part of the phone's hardware it's pretty average at best kind of tinny at high volumes and there's no second speaker in a earpiece to make a stereo sound so it's super easy to block this one by accident I've done it the fingerprint reader on the back it's not that bad but it's a little bit smaller it used to be a full circle now the smaller surface area is a bit of a bummer there's no wireless charging so most phones nowadays with glass backs are doing it to enable wireless charging since it doesn't work through metal oneplus has gone with the glass back but didn't add wireless charging and then it's also not officially IP rated for water resistance oneplus kind of just says like it's okay if you splash water on it it'll survive daily use but they don't officially ip67 or ip68 rated so keep that in mind so it has a bunch of great upside a bunch of you know great build great materials great construction but all those other little things that you have to weigh against that now on wireless charging I gotta say the battery situation of the 1 plus 6 is really interesting this is gonna sound like I'm just defending one plus for not putting in wireless charging look they could have they definitely could have put it in with this glass back and it would have been great but I don't really miss it on this phone the combination of this battery it's a 3300 milliamp hour battery decent size plus the near stock Android with oxygen OS + at 1080 P AMOLED display plus a Snapdragon a 45 with eight gigs of RAM I'm getting like 6 plus hours every single day of screen on time I'm getting a plus battery life if I don't use it that much it's like ending the day forty percent it's really good and then on top of all that you throw in there - charging which is still on this phone it's still the fastest 0 to 100 charging I've ever seen in a phone it's super convenient and when you have all that it just kind of feels like I don't need wireless charging it would be nice it'd be cool but it's not a deal breaker for me and I think one plus is hoping that it's not a deal breaker for you either so there's that but now let's let's talk about that 1080p display oneplus has stuck to their guns and they're going with yet again a 1080p optic AMOLED display six point three inches from corner to corner so it's huge and this time with a notch up at the top it's part strategy part sacrifice the resolution 20 to 80 by 1080 is actually hugely beneficial for battery life as I mentioned it's also pretty great for performance you're not pushing nearly as many pixels which means your GPU is not working as hard everything is super smooth but also now it's not going to be as sharp as the galaxy s 9s and the pixels to excels of the world which have quad HD displays but then again like we saw in the pixel quality control isn't easy and a great 1440p panel is not cheap or easy to find so instead of settling for an average quad HD screen to save money this phone has what I'd say is the best-looking 1080p OLED in any phone right now it gets really bright it's colorful there's a couple different display modes for different color profiles with different amounts of saturation it's good the best part of this display is actually the clever way hey oneplus has handled the notch up at the top but now that we're getting deeper into this whole world of Android phones having notches and Android P coming out with knotch support and developers getting onboard we're seeing less and less apps with those bugs that are cut off by the notch so that's just kind of where we're at I think a lot of manufacturers here everyone complaining about that notch though including oneplus so there's plenty of that they're doing to hide it if you really hate it in fact as you get around to using the oneplus 6 you'll notice the display setting lets you hide the notch anytime if you don't want to use it works great with an OLED display those are black pixels and when you're actually in apps you almost never lose actual real estate in the app actually you never lose real estate in the app like back in the days of the essential phone it would actually be cutting into the app you're using it doesn't do that anymore unless you actually go into the display menu and turn on a full screen mode and and explicitly give that app permission so by default unlike the iPhone it doesn't cut off YouTube videos this is the same as the p20 Pro and other phones with notches now you still see everything and you can turn on full-screen mode if you're cool with the notch interrupting part of the app you're in if you're not into it you never have to turn that on so that's clean and oxygen OS just as a whole is fast and smooth as it is it also has a pretty good amount of extra features while still staying pretty close to stock Android there's still the super fast facial recognition there is the gaming mode that doesn't let notifications interrupt your gameplay there's an ambient display mode that's new that works when you raise your phone up but it's not always on so I actually don't even really bother using it basically it's not lacking features so you can already know I tend to keep my setup pretty clean and this phone definitely lets me do that now for software updates when you think about the longevity of the phone this is actually one of the first of like maybe six phones to get included in the Android P beta program alongside the pixel so now it's not just the pixel this is one of those phones you can put the Android P beta on and that's a pretty good sign as far as the future of when it'll get updates being close to stock Android it doesn't necessarily guarantee it's gonna get the same update timing as the pixel you still probably have to get a pixel to be first in line for that but it probably does mean it'll be better than your Samsung's and LG's many months down the road so that's pretty good I really like oxygen OS still it's clean nothing's too in-your-face it has a few quirks and a few extra things like the shelf that put a lot of useful information at your fingertips but doesn't overwhelm you and you can always hide most of it so I'm a fan pretty much the only thing I don't like about the software here is the new gestures I tried them for a while and they do work perfectly fine there's no bugs or anything and they are intuitive but they're just not smooth like I'm so used to the iPhones gestures being extremely responsive and smooth to my touch and you got to give Apple credit for that and oneplus swipe gestures are just not that so I'm sticking to the buttons on this phone so really the last big question we have that we're wondering about from the impressions video is the camera situation on the 1 plus 6 well if you saw the last video you saw the blind test you probably already have some thoughts about it from me it's like a b-plus as camera quality and smartphone but that's because the a-plus smartphones the the pixel twos of the world and the iPhone 10 and the Galaxy S nine are way up there those are the eight $900,000 flagships so this is a B+ as far as cameras but it's an A+ for the price it is definitely better than other $500 phones this guy is a 16 megapixel primary camera with optical stabilization and an F 1.7 aperture and it takes pretty nice shots I've been shooting with it pretty confidently for a while focus is fine overall there's plenty of detail and not a lot of noise and pretty accurate colors if anything it biases maybe a little towards overexposing more often than under but dynamic range is good enough that that hasn't been a problem and every photo is plenty saturated so overall I'd say I'm pretty satisfied with the photos from the 1 plus 6 camera I'm not blown away or anything I'm not super excited to use it but satisfied that's second camera we were wondering about it's not a telephoto camera is just another 20 megapixel sensor with no OIS it's basically used for depth information for portrait mode as far as we can tell which is okay I guess it's decent it's not great I'm not gonna go out of my way to use it that much but basically the idea is it doesn't take photos that are quite at the level of the highest end flagships but those flagships are so much more expensive this definitely beats any other $500 phone in fact that's really the theme for this whole one plus 6 if you've noticed the whole review it's either knocking at the door of those flagship smartphones or it's like one small step behind but that is definitely beating any other 5 $600 Android phone the specs are ridiculous Snapdragon 805 6 or 8 gigs of ram i have 128 gigs of storage a 16 megapixel camera 3300 milliamp hour battery that's knocking out the door of like the highest-end flagships we have right now definitely better than any other 500 ollar phone it's your glass and metal build it's your quality construction great buttons it might be missing wireless charging and a good speaker and IP certification but it has dual SIM it has a headphone jack it has USB see really fast charging great battery life huge AMOLED display definitely better than other five 600 other phone the camera like we said is B+ maybe but that's like we said way better than any other six-hundred allah fund which makes it feel like a plus for the price this is both literally and figuratively the most polished phone one-plus has ever made I think the choices they made really of what to keep versus what to cut out balanced out to a quality phone it would have been so easy to review this phone like a $900 flagship and just bash it for like not having wireless charging or not having an A+ camera but they did a really good job and it's a great phone for the money a plus for the price that's been it let me know what you think thanks for watching talk to guys the next one peace