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hey what's up guys cheap phones are getting good and good phones are getting cheap think about it case in point this is the brand new one plus X it's going to cost two hundred and forty nine dollars two forty nine off contract brand-new in-the-box everything three years ago two hundred fifty bucks wouldn't get much of a smartphone at all but even if you did it would be inferior in pretty much every way while the company who makes it focuses on bigger and better things but that has changed a lot over the last year and a half or so and this phone well this is the latest and greatest of that trend oneplus is already pretty much known for cost-cutting and for your 250 bucks you are getting a lot in this little guy so you get a 5-inch 1080p AMOLED display that's a pretty good you know 441 pixels per inch nice and crisp a quad-core Snapdragon 801 chip Adreno 330 GPU 3u bytes of RAM a 13 megapixel camera with F 2.2 aperture on the back and a surprisingly big 2525 milliamp hour battery now it is a baseline 16 gigabyte model for the price but the SIM card tray actually has two slots for either dual SIM or you can go one nano SIM and one micro SD card slot so expandable storage up to 128 more gigabytes so the specs are definitely nice for the price but equally important is industrial design and how it feels in the hand and that's really where the oneplus X actually stands out from the rest in its budget there's no plastic here the front and back are panels of Gorilla Glass and it has all grooved metal rail all the way around the outside of the phone has some nice weight to it it keeps the alert slider on the left side from the oneplus 2 that we love so much has some champers and it curves the glass right at the edges and overall it feels like a really tight well-constructed almost familiar nearly high-end looking smartphone it did feel a little bit slippery to me with so much glass obviously on the front and the back and it's definitely a fingerprint magnet but I think it kind of reminds me of the Sony Xperia Series mixed with a little bit of Nexus for a little bit of iPhone 5s with that completely flat back but all those phones were much more expensive than this one when they came out so the specs and the build a build of oxygen OS that's optimized for the hardware and you're looking at a pretty sweet little package and oneplus throws in some black wallpapers and a dark theme in the OS with true blacks to kind of help you save a little bit of battery life here and there toss in ambient display and throw in some other features like SwiftKey built in and screen off gestures and home screen features from the oneplus 2 like shelf and you're looking at an absolutely stacked smartphone for a minimal price now this is just the first impressions but you can imagine you know with a smaller 1080p OLED display and the relatively huge battery it should last a while on a charge even better I guess when Android 6.0 comes to it with those and the camera was promising to me in person all of course have to test that further but I'm already thinking it'll be right up there with smartphones way over its $250 price point so the value the focus on value and getting a premium experience at a low price continues now it's been a serious trend for 2015 cheap phones are getting good and good phones are getting cheap thanks for watching I'll talk to you guys in the next one peace