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so remember yesterday when I unboxed - the oneplus 2 and removed that free included screen protector thinking it was part of the packaging yeah I'm kind of a noob - oneplus phones but judging from the comments so are many of you and that's awesome because it means we can all learn something together i'm michael fisher with pocket now and these are a few of your oneplus two questions answered the first question we're hitting is the one that you asked most often in the unboxing comments how does dual SIM management work on the oneplus 2 and it's actually pretty straightforward you pop in to nano SIM cards from your preferred GSM operators here in the states that's AT&T and t-mobile only know Verizon or Sprint and when you power up the phone for the first time the OS prompts you to choose which SIM you want to use for what voice calls SMS and cellular data the phone seems to auto detect what Sims have been inserted and then Auto downloads APNs for a bunch of associated prepaid and postpaid networks so you don't need to program them yourself which is nice and it always displays signal information for both carriers up top you can also switch settings on the fly if you run out of data on one card or you're seeing better reception on the other network or whatever this is pre-release software so is switching between networks sometimes requires a restart to work properly and the carrier string also doesn't display the network affiliation properly even on t-mobile on our unit it says AT&T but a oneplus tells us a fix is on the way for this number four does it overheat this question has its roots in the oneplus 2 s Snapdragon 810 processor which throttles its performance very quickly under load and is generally not very efficient but while a better design processor is always a nice thing to have the oneplus 2 hasn't shown any evidence of handicap in the 24 hours I've been using it does it heat up when playing games for a long time sure just like every other phone and the oneplus 2 doesn't get as hot as some other phones running better processors this shouldn't come as any surprise if you've seen our HTC One m9 coverage that phone runs just fine on the Snapdragon 810 and the oneplus 2 seems to do the same unless you're running repeated benchmarks back-to-back for some reason the 1+2 performance should do you fine and neither the processor nor the dual-sim setup seems to be impacting battery in a negative way we got about four and a half hours screen on time in our first cycle of heavy use we'll see if that holds up or not number three dem optics the oneplus 2 uses an omni vision ovie 138 60 cents er for its main camera and the viewfinder heavily resembles the Google camera app with its swiping controls from the left you've also got HDR and beauty modes along with one pluses clear image which stitches 10 individual photos together into a higher resolution shot we've only done a day of shooting so we have no conclusions yet but the oneplus 2 does really shine an HDR it seems it doesn't just brighten up the shadows it seems to amp up the saturation and maybe the temperature too for a warmer shot I'm only seeing a slight improvement in the clear image photos though and my first impression of night shots is that they're average maybe a little above average but getting focus is tougher which makes for a longer pocket to picture delay speaking of you can program a DoubleTap on any of the hardware keys to launch the camera but near as I can tell it won't do it when the phone is locked and the on-screen gesture of drawing a circle is clever but also cumbersome number two there's a big sliding switch on the side of this phone to change the alert mode how useful is it really well I've never been the biggest fan of lollypops notification settings that makes sense but I don't use the priority mode ever and it's been kind of cumbersome to set the notification level and software the switch solves one of those problems you want to silence your oneplus 2 all you have to do is slide it all the way to the top and whether the screens on or off your phone is muted I remember this feature from Palm trio's from over a decade ago so it's surprising it's taken Android this long to catch up I kind of wish the switch was reversed that's kind of counterintuitive to flip it up for silent and down for loud but that's a minor complaint I'm really glad it's here and I hope other manufacturers follow suit soon by the way if you have an Android wear watch and you want override the switch selection without taking your phone out yes you can still do that finally how's life on oxygen OS well people who are currently on CyanogenMod probably won't dig it as oxygen OS doesn't carry over a lot of the cool features that make cm so useful as a newcomer to this build of Android I really like the added attention to customizability in some ways it's like a preview build of Android M with enhanced control of app permissions and the system-wide dark-themed available out of the box you can also customize the accent color of the OS and control what the notification LED does unfortunately there's no way I can find to trigger the notification tray with one of those buttons but you can use them to jump into the shelf by default it just shows shortcuts to recently used apps and frequent contacts not so helpful poke around a little though and you can modify it with pretty much any widget you want they're smaller on the shelf and not all of them fit well but if you want a vertically scrolling array of widgets hey here you go going into the review period I do have a few concerns regarding what I've seen on the oneplus 2 so far the fingerprint scanner is really quick when it works and when it doesn't work I'm not saying it doesn't recognize my fingerprint it just buzzes and does nothing and fingerprints aside sometimes the button itself doesn't do anything at all whether it's waking up the phone or closing an app I've reported this to oneplus and I'm waiting to hear back it's possible I have a bad unit but if it's more widespread than hopefully this issue will be fixed in the next software update I'm also concerned about recharge time the wide availability of quick charge on other phones has spoiled me I'm used to plugging in and getting half a battery charge in half an hour the oneplus 2 doesn't top up as fast and while the reversibility of the type-c USB cable is handy not being able to use any other USB cables to charge this phone is not remember it's only been a day folks and we're still a ways away from the first one plus two shipments hitting customers in the US stay tuned for our future features and full review keeping in mind that we're working with pre software here all of this is subject to change at a moment's notice keep the questions pouring in folks make sure you're subscribed and hit that thumbs up button if you enjoyed this early impressions video we're at pocket now on all the major social media 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