Hey how's it going? Dave2D here, and this is the OnePlus 5,
and OnePlus is a company which, at this point, doesn't need an introduction.
This is their flagship phone for 2017.
I think this is the best-looking OnePlus phone to date. It has a double camera on the back
and because they placed it in the top left corner, it's going to look similar to the iPhone 7 Plus.
It's a very clean and minimal-looking design, super thin phone, it's coming in at 7.25 millimeters.
It's their thinnest phone yet, and I like how it looks. I think a lot of people will mistake this for an iPhone 7 Plus.
I guess depending on who you are or what you want your phone to do that could be a good thing or a bad thing.
I don't love the antenna lines. I know they have to be somewhere, but these look a little too Apple-y for me.
And if you want to hide them, you can just get a skin from dbrand,
that'll also protect the finish and make it less slippery. I'll leave a link for them below.
It has great build quality again, and in its naked form it's comfortable to hold, but it's really smooth.
I'm not sure if it's the anodization process or the finish of the metal, but it's a very slick device.
It has the alert slider again, with three positions and an LED notification that
has user customizable colors. The display is still 5.5 inches and it's
still 1080p and I think it's the right choice
outside of VR because it's like the perfect balance between good resolution
and good battery life. It has Dash Charge again, if you're not familiar with Dash
Charge, it's basically really fast charging for the phone, the OnePlus
3 had it, and I got to be honest I think this is the best feature of the entire
OnePlus line. If you ever fall asleep and you don't charge your phone when you
wake up in the morning you're like oh my god I have no battery you plug it in for
20 minutes while you're getting ready and you're good to go for most of the
day. Now there's a few things that haven't changed that I'm not a fan of
they didn't change the position of the fingerprint sensor and I know this is a
subjective thing I would have preferred it on the back and just prefer them on
the back it's still in the front and it still only has a single speaker on the
bottom I know a lot of people don't care about that but it's something I care
about and it's also not IP rated it's probably water-resistant to some degree
it's just not officially certified with any kind of number. It's running Oxygen OS again,
and a lot of companies put a thick coat of like third-party sauce on
their software I've always liked the way that Oxygen OS feels, it's basically
stock but with a few extra tweaks to give it some more functionality.
So a few things that have changed: It has Bluetooth 5.0 so you get better speeds
better range and support for two headphones at once, it's running a
Snapdragon 835 and it uses some speedy UFS 2.1 memory so the combination of a
fast processor with fast storage makes it very zippy when doing anything so
when you're unlocking the phone, launching the camera, launching apps,
using apps it's a quick phone. The battery is 3300 mAh, which is
bigger than OnePlus 3, but smaller than the OnePlus 3T that was
3400 mAh, and there were rumors there would be 4000 mAh,
it's not; it's 3300, but because of the more efficient
processor, the OnePlus 5 has better battery life than the previous
generations. It's still a full day battery though, it's not even close to
being a two day battery but with Dash Charge on this thing, I'm content with battery life.
There's another thing I need to mention, OnePlus as a company has
matured over the years, and one of the issues that had in the beginning was
customer service. I had one of the original OnePlus Ones and I had a
nightmare returning that thing for repairs, it was just, I think was like a 2-
or 3-month process and it's just jumping through hoops and flames was just not a
fun process. OnePlus 3T, a week and a half, two weeks without a phone, sent it back,
no issues and if you go on forums, you look at XDA or just go on reddit their
customer service has improved so much over the years, at this point in time I
would consider them equal to some of the bigger companies out there. Now the big
upgrade this year is the camera, dual camera system with a lot of buzz about
this thing because OnePlus announced that they were working with DxOMark to
make something pretty awesome and well I think it is. So right off the rip, the
camera launches super fast and that's step one of any good smartphone camera
double-click and you're in. Photos I took in well-lit environments look great.
The colors look proper nothing feels oversaturated or over-processed, photos
in low-light look good as well as long as it's not too dark they're exposed
properly there is obviously some grain but it's nothing too bad. I did notice
though when it's really dark the camera seems to overcompensate and tries to
make it brighter than it needs to and it just ends up looking really grainy.
The autofocus is fast and it has portrait modes from the dual cameras for some of
that creamy bokeh, but the most impressive thing to me was the dynamic
range on this camera. So dynamic range is how well a camera can differentiate
between the darkest and brightest areas of a single photo so
this is a photo of the Sun and some buildings, this is a very difficult shot
to capture. The Sun is so bright that everything else is going to look dark in
comparison. This is how the OnePlus 5 captures it, it's pretty good right? I think the
camera on this thing is really solid. Now image quality is subjective and it's
kinda hard to crown one as like the best camera or the winner of the cameras,
but I will say this, at this price point, that sub $500 price point, this thing has
the best camera right now. Now speaking of price, the OnePlus 5
cost $480 for the 64 GB model, which makes it really price competitive.
The OnePlus 5 is packed with awesome hardware for the
money, it's like the poster boy of the appropriately priced smartphone. It has a
premium aluminum build, it's a little slippery, get a dbrand skin for it.
It has a 5.5 inch 1080p screen and it's got a fast fingerprint sensor up
front, on the back we have the dual camera system: 16 megapixel main shooter,
20 megapixel telephoto and combined they deliver some very impressive photos
especially in regards to dynamic range. Inside it's packed with the fast
processor, fast storage, and 6GB of RAM for the base model, the upgraded
model has 8GB of RAM if you're interested and then the battery is 3300 mAh
and it will comfortably last you a full day of heavy use.
There are a lot of phones in the sub $500 market and a lot of them are good but
If I had to make a recommendation right now in mid-2017 it would be this one, OnePlus 5,
really impressed with it this year. Hope you guys enjoy this video,
thumbs if you liked it, subs if you loved it, see you guys next time.
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