Gadgetory

if you know who one plus is you probably know a lot about oneplus phones you probably know that they come loaded with high-end specs and premium build quality you probably know that they're sold online for pretty aggressive prices and you probably also know that they give the best phones from Samsung Apple and Google a good run for their money now what you might not know about is one pluses newest phone one plus five the five carries a lot of the same traits as its predecessor the three key it's got an all aluminum premium quality build the fastest processor you can get from Qualcomm and the most ram you can get inside a smart phone but it's also got a couple of new tricks like a new dual lens camera and it does have a new price that's a little bit higher than before let's start with the basics the one plus five cost four hundred and seventy nine dollars for the 64 gigabyte model or five hundred and thirty nine dollars for the 128 version that's forty to a hundred dollars more than the three t and it's priced a lot closer is the premium flagships from those other companies that means that the oneplus 5 has to do a little more to stand out it has the same 5.5 inch 16 by 9 1080p AMOLED display as last year this way is fine it's bright and sharp and colorful and you can see it outdoors which is good but it's not nearly as impressive as those edge to edge screens that we see on Samsung's Galaxy s8 or LG's g6 the design of the 1+5 is more rounded and curved than the squarish 3t was and it's going to be instantly recognizable most people it's basically a slightly smaller iPhone 7 plus the dual camera is in the exact same spot as the iPhones and so are these curved antenna lines it also has a super-fast fingerprint scanner right on the front below the screen but it does have some unique oneplus touches like this bringer switch which makes it really easy to turn the ringer on and off inside the oneplus 5 has either six-figure bytes or 8 gigabytes of RAM depending on whether you choose a 64 gigabyte model or the 128 gig version now I've been using the 8 gigabyte model and it's super fast everything opens really quickly everything happens very quickly and even app installs which always seem to take forever on Android happen really fast on this phone now I have noticed a little bit of jelly-like scrolling from time to time but it's not always apparent and for most of the time the 1+5 is really with fast but here's the thing about being fast it's not always better the one plus five is faster than the Galaxy s8 for example because it doesn't have the s AIDS animations or fluidity it kind of feels like the one plus five is running on fast-forward which isn't always the best experience inside is also a 3300 milliamp hour battery which in my experience is enough to last a full day with medium to heavy use I'm typically able to get about four hours of screen time using it which is good but a little bit better than average not mind-blowing for software the oneplus 5 runs Android 7.1.1 nougat with one pluses modifications on top of x1 plus the software is really light and easy it's basically like the same thing that Google ships on the pixel phones and it's very easy to use and they did add a couple of things one of them is a new reading mode which Tunes the screen to a grayscale and makes it almost look like you're reading on a Kindle which is really easy on the eyes if you do a lot of reading on your phone you're probably going to appreciate this so the one plus five is a faster F 1.7 lends a more capable sensor and a new camera that's right next to it that has a longer focal distance let's let's you do a couple of things you can zoom in closer to your subject or you can do unique blurring effects like a DSLR might be able to do but unfortunately all of that new camera tech doesn't produce amazing images the 16 megapixel camera doesn't have optical stabilization which leads to softer images in low light and the 20 megapixel camera with the longer lens has smaller pixels and not as bright of a lens all of this adds up to lower quality images in low light especially compared to what you can get from an SI a pixel and HTC u 11 or even an iphone to make matters worse the portrait mode that's supposed to mimic a DSLR it's more miss than hit far too often it blurs too aggressively or doesn't blur all of the areas that a real camera would most the time it looks pretty fake then there are other disappointing things about the oneplus 5 such as its complete lack of water resistance or if you're in the u.s. the fact that you still can't use an on Verizon or Sprint so this is a one plus five it's faster and better looking than ever but it's got a failed camera gimmick and a less attractive price tag that pricing really makes this calculus change for just a little bit more you can get a phone with waterproofing a better camera and more forward-looking designs now that isn't to say the 1 plus 5 is a bad phone most people will be able to look right past its iPhone like design and mediocre camera and just enjoy its speed and responsiveness but it does mean that the 1 plus 5 is a little less impressive than before someone really calling me Oh I'm mid take what's up