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hey I'm Dan from The Verge and this is the one plus five and then this is the one plus 5t now these are virtually the exact same phone except for two obvious differences and one not so obvious one so the most obvious new thing with the 1 plus 5t is its despite it's now a six inch 18 by nine full screen display it kind of stretches all the way to almost edges of the phone it's still 1080p wide and still AMOLED it's the same basic technologies in 1 plus 5t but it's just bigger and what's cool about it is that it's bigger in a phone that's pretty much the same size as the prior model so the other obvious change to the hardware here in addition to the bigger display is the movement of the fingerprint sensor on the oneplus 5 it's located on the front of the phone on the one plus 5t it's been moved to the back it's in the center above the oneplus logo basically in the same position you might find on a Google pixel or other similar phone and it's the same technology as before so it's very quick to use and convenient to reach to unlock the phone with your fingerprint otherwise the design of the phone itself is virtually the same it's the same kind of curved aluminum finish this is a midnight black model and that's the only color that they're going to be launching at first but it still looks very nice it's a little bit finger printing and it's a little bit slick at first but it is very nicely made as well a couple other points of note you've got the USB C port still has one plus as fast - charging there's still a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack even though it supports bluetooth 5.0 out of the box and then on the side you still have the ringer switch which you can physically switch from ringing to do not disturb in fully silent modes which is kind of unique to oneplus inside the phone is virtually exactly the same as well it's got a qualcomm snapdragon 835 processor you can get it with six or eight gigabytes of RAM 64 gigabytes or 128 gigabytes of storage it supports dual SIM cards everything is basically the same as the one plus five on the inside as well so the performance is really fast one thing that I've noticed in my short time with it is that it doesn't have any of the jelly scrolling effect that I saw on the 1+5 so that's it's a big thing if you can see it it makes a big difference in your everyday use and I'm kind of glad that it's not here and oneplus fix that problem now the other big difference with the hardware is oneplus has changed up how the camera functions it's still a dual camera system but instead of having a telephoto lens like on the 1+5 they've swapped that out for a standard lens that's a brighter aperture F 1.7 now the company says this helps greatly in low-light performance which is one of the weak points of the 1+5 so we'll have to see when we test it to see how well it works what it does in extreme low-light if you're under 10 Lux of available light it will use a special mode that combines many of the pixels together so that you get better sensitivity otherwise you're still looking at a 16 megapixel sensor here a 20 megapixel sensor there they're both full color and then the system just kind of uses its intelligence to figure out when to use each sensor because the fingerprint sensor has moved to the back of the phone oneplus is added another way that you can unlock the phone quickly and easily if you don't particularly like the using the fingerprint sensor it's calling this face unlock it uses the front-facing camera to see your face and then unlock the phone it doesn't have the IR sensors that you might find on an iPhone 10 or a note 8 it is just using the front camera to see your face and you can't use it for things like authenticating Android pay or logging into websites it's only used for unlocking the phone many times you can just double tap the phone and will turn the screen on and unlock almost instantly which is very cool you can see I didn't even see the lock screen there because it's just using the front camera it doesn't have any IR features you might have some trouble if you're wearing big sunglasses or if it's very dark and you'll have to rely on the fingerprint sensor to unlock your phone but for most signs indoors outdoors you can unlock the phone really quickly by just looking at it which very cool now the software on the 1 plus 5t is virtually identical to what you get on the one plus five it's still running android 7.1.1 nougat the company says it's working on getting Oreo out the door for early next year and it does have a couple beta programs in place for that for some of its other phones but at launch this is running Android 7.1.1 it's got one plusses launcher here which gives you some customized ability it's very fast and easy to use and you can see there's almost no bloatware installed the only pre-installed apps outside of Google's r1 plusses community app so the one plus 5t mostly builds upon what the oneplus 5 already has and then it improves them you get a better wider display that's more modern to use you get some new face unlock features in theory the camera should be better performing in low-light which is all very important stuff but it doesn't get rid of the stuff that made the 1 plus 5t great it's very fast performance high-end specs good build quality and a pretty aggressive price so there you have it that's our quick look at the one plus 5t it's gonna be available next week November 21st and it's gonna cost about 20 bucks more than the 5 so you're looking at $4.99 for model with 64 gigs of storage or 559 per model with 128 gigs of storage we're gonna have a lot more to say about this including our full review coming up so be sure to check out the verge comm and youtube.com slash the virtual this is why we need the garage-door on here it's like shut this off for video we can use this as a meeting room with the clothes we could install a smart garage door opener there so