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hey what is up guys I'm Kim PhD here and this is the oneplus X in my opinion the best really cheap smartphone that you can buy right now and even if you're not going to buy this phone it's still worth knowing that a phone like this exists this is one plus is super budget $250 smartphone where the whole point is to give an impressive premium feel in the hand at this low price and they do this by using materials like metal and glass all the way around which is awesome so the flat edges have these ridged metal rails all around the edges are all chamfered and there's this 2.5 D sort of curved glass on the front and the back kind of like the iPhone 4s or the Nexus 4 so in the hand it feels really nice it has some weight to it it doesn't Bend at all like some plastics would but glass is definitely one of the slipperiest materials possible so even though it feels pretty premium naked you'll probably want to at least slap a skin on the sky so I'll drop a link to one of those below that like button and oneplus even includes this clear plastic case with this phone so they kind of already acknowledged this and of course glass is also a fingerprint magnet in this black color so there's also a white version available that shows less smudges but beyond materials this is a classic oneplus piece of hardware so power button and volume rocker on the right hand side and the alert slider on the left hand side really happy to see that there and there is a decent speaker on the bottom only the left grill is a speaker and it gets kind of loud but it definitely distorts at the highest volumes now inside you have a similar piece of hardware to I guess the oneplus one so a Snapdragon 801 Adreno 330 3 gigabytes of RAM which has been pretty awesome for a budget phone and right up front you have a 5-inch 1080p AMOLED display and I gotta say this is the best feature of the phone by far I always love OLED displays and this one is no exception for me it's got inky blacks and the super contrast II really vivid saturated colors we love and this one is actually pretty bright too so that's nice usually you see a big drop-off in the display quality of budget smart phones but this display despite it being a little cooler color temperature and a lit smaller than most is legitimately quite nice and then to capitalize on this OLED display oneplus has some tweaks in oxygen OS just for this phone to use black more often which you might know saves battery in an OLED so there's a dark mode going on throughout the OS dark background in the app drawer dark background in the Settings app a darkened panel behind your quick settings and even includes a bunch of new wallpapers featuring pitch black although the one I'm using now is not one of the included ones I'll include that below in case you want to rock it on one of your OLED phones and yeah performance throughout the OS is pretty nice pretty clean and smooth again top notch for a true budget phone this is still technically on top of android 5.1 so you'll note that i'm hoping it'll get a marshmallow update soon enough which will make it an even sweeter deal and oneplus is pretty good about software updates so even before you get marshmallow you get features like control over the app permissions which is built into oxygen OS and customization features are everywhere you can change the accent color of the whole OS in this dark mode so it's cyan by default but there's a whole bunch of contrast II bright presets and you can choose between on screen or off screen buttons also as you're accustomed to in other oneplus phones you can use custom icon packs and you can go through and change all kinds of stuff like the order of the quick settings toggles and all the stuff in the Shelf panel to the left of your home screens etc all this stuff is familiar from more expensive phones like the oneplus 2 and you might not realize it at first but it's kind of nice to have these usability features and nice to have stuff usually it's stripped down from lower end phones just to sort of make sure there's a clear distinction but not so here this is a very complete software experience really all the same stuff that we love about the oneplus 2 and also battery life battery life was good for me it's a roughly 2500 million power battery and I was getting around three-and-a-half hours of screen on time so ending the day with a bit of battery to spare mostly with brightness in your max and the usual you know social stuff watching videos it handled occasional web browsing all that stuff fine I think we can thank the OLED display for a lot of those battery savings and you can't forget to mention the expandable storage this one can hold either two SIM cards or one SIM card and one micro SD card and lastly the camera another area where budget smartphones usually fall off pretty hard the oneplus X is rocking a 13 megapixel camera with an F 2.2 aperture and it's actually alright it relies pretty hard on image processing since there's no Hardware stabilization but photos in normal light look nice and pretty much what you would expect from any smartphone decent sharpness pretty tame colors though a kind of a weak dynamic range without HDR and then getting into low-light it doesn't completely break down like some other budget smartphones but it kind of hangs around which is nice to see and really a lot of the photo taking experience is helped by the fact that the camera app in oxygen OS is so quick and simple so there's like almost no shutter lag I really missed a shot with it plenty of smart phones in all kinds of budgets really struggle with the camera being slower but this is definitely not one of them so at the end of the day this is definitely my favorite super inexpensive smartphone coming in at that 250 bucks but don't get fooled into thinking that this is the complete package you definitely get what you pay for and to get a smart phone down to a low price like this as we know with oneplus you do have to take quite a few shortcuts and cost-cutting is real so no NFC in this phone no 802 dot 11ac Wi-Fi no 5 gigahertz Wi-Fi no USB type-c no rapid charging no wireless charging no 4k video no o is no raw photos and then one particularly curious omission on the inside no bands 7 or 12 which will actually affect you a little bit if you're a t-mobile or AT&T customer I'm an ATT user and I'm pretty much always on 18 t LTE wherever I go on this phone I spent some of my time on LTE but most of the time I was on 3G or HSPA+ because of the lack of those bands and that might be a big deal if you're someone who relies on a really heavy data connection or you use that all the time but if you don't then that's less of a big deal to you so keep that in mind there's plenty of corners cut to make this work in a premium feeling device for such a low price but if you know what you're getting for the money and you're okay with that then this is definitely a great Buy and I would have any problem recommending it so anyway that's been it that's one plus X now you know thanks for watching and I'll talk to you guys in the next one peace you