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here it is the oneplus 60 it looks a lot like this the oneplus six but with a couple of significant changes you'll be able to buy it starting on November 1st for 549 dollars and up now before I get to some of the other changes that are on the 16 there's a big one that a lot of you have been waiting for the 1 plus 60 is the first one plus phone that can be used on Verizon this is huge you can finally use a 1 plus phone on the biggest carrier in the u.s. complete with LTE and multi service in addition the 1 plus 60 will be sold directly by t-mobile in the US making it the first one plus phone to be sold by any carrier here you'll be able to find in every t-mobile store and use t-mobile's device payment plans combined with your phone bill to purchase it this is a big deal for oneplus which has only sold its phones online in the US and it'll continue to do so so if you want to order it online you can and if you're in the UK oneplus will be selling the 60 on every major carrier plus on Amazon and at John Lewis stores okay so let's talk about the phone itself there aren't a ton of changes from the 6 that was just released in May of this year but there are a handful of new things that are pretty significant let's start with the display it's still an edge-to-edge OLED screen but now it's even larger at 6.4 inches the bottom chin is one millimeter smaller and the notch at the top is way smaller than before it's got this little teardrop kind of shape if you hate notches this is probably the only one that you'll be able to tolerate but even more significant is that under this screen is a fingerprint scanner for unlocking the phone oneplus has removed the traditional fingerprint scanner that was on the back of the 6 and completely embedded it inside the 16 screen that makes the 60 the first phone in the u.s. to offer this kind of feature now you can use it to unlock the phone log into apps that support fingerprint logins like your bank account app or something like that or authenticate locked data and apps oneplus says that it works through screen protectors and through small scratches on the screen and it's just as secure as the traditional-style scanners now the company claims that this scanner is the fastest in screen scanner in any phone but I don't really have a bunch of other phones with this feature to compare it to but I can tell you that it's not as fast as the traditional fingerprint reader that you're probably used to there's a little pause or beat each time you use it because the light has to illuminate before it scans your finger and then the phone unlocks I don't think this is a huge problem it's still fast and it still works reliably most of the time but it is noticeable now if you do want a faster more convenient but way less secure way to unlock your phone the 60 has the same face unlocking system that uses the front camera and is wicked fast inside the 60 has the same set of specs as before it's a Snapdragon a 45 processor 6 or 8 gigs of ram up to 256 gigs of storage what's different is you can't buy a 64 gig model anymore the base model of the 60 starts at 128 and one plus has also bumped out the battery capacity up to 3,700 milliamp hours which it says provides 20% more battery life than the 6 I haven't been using the 16 long enough to test this but it's a significantly larger battery pushing the same processor in same screen resolution so it's safe to assume that it will probably last longer than before that bigger battery does change a couple of things with the body of the phone it's a little thicker and a little heavier than before and the back has more of a curve than 6 I actually find it to be nicer to hold in the 6 though it fits my hand better and it just feels more substantial but this is still a big phone and if you find big phones to be hard to use you're gonna have a hard time with this one the other big thing that oneplus changed is that it removed the headphone jack goes on the 6 now it's just as annoying here as it is on the pixel or the iPhone or any other phone without a headphone jack but oneplus is including a little adapter in the box you can use your 3.5 millimeter headphone with it you might also miss the notification LED at the top which has been removed in the pursuit of this tiny little teardrop notch and oneplus still isn't offering wireless charging which is a bummer when practically every other phone has it now and it still doesn't have proper water-resistant certification but it does have one plus it's extremely fast wired charging provided you use the included charging braking cable that come in the box the 60 s camera hardware is exactly the same as before it's got a 16 megapixel main camera with a 20 megapixel 2nd sensor for portrait effects plus a 16 megapixel front camera but oneplus has added a bunch of software tweaks and a couple of new features including a better portrait mode but low-light shots and a new nightscape mode for nighttime landscapes and cityscapes and if you have a one plus six all of those new camera features will be coming in a software update so look out for that the 60 is launching with one plus is oxygen OS on top of Android 9pi it does have a couple of new features is going to improve gesture control system and some better memory management tweaks so there you go that's the new one plus sixty just like the three T and the five TB for it it takes the phone that one plus launched a few months ago tweaks it refines it and makes it a better overall device it's a really good phone and it still has a really aggressive price especially compared to the new phones from Apple and Google and this time around Verizon users get to join the fun hey thanks for watching for more than one plus sixteen including our full review with camera samples and all that fun stuff be sure to check out the verge comm and if you haven't seen our new Science Channel go check it out youtube.com slash fridge science