Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “OnePlus 6 Review – Best One Yet?!”.
Oneplus has been known for their budget devices for a while now and this year they have unveiled their one plus six, their most premium, handset to date, with a glass back edge to edge display and the latest in hardware. That would be the SAP dragon 845. As the brains, backed by the adrenal 630 for the graphics card, as well as six gigs of ram and a starting storage space of 64 gigs all for five hundred thirty dollars, they even have other models, starting at eight gigs of ram wood, more storage, with a Higher price, of course, okay. So, let’s start with the hardware – and this is really where oneplus needed to change things up and they did just like other handsets we’ve now got a glass back. The model we have in the video is the mirror black. That has a ceramic look to it. They achieved this by applying a thin film to the inside and I really dig it even though it’s Gorilla, Glass, five and scratch resistant, I did apply some dban skins to it, so I wouldn’t have to keep wiping away the fingerprints there’s. Also, a white with gold trim and a matte black version, all of which have the same glass back but with different textures. So we also get water resistant this year and they don’t give a rating. But oneplus says it’s enough to survive a drop in the sink or a spilled glass of water. Now I’m not gon na take the risk and test it because I might damage the phone, so I’m just gon na go ahead and take their word for it. Surprisingly, the oneplus six does not have any wireless charging and that’s kind of a letdown. To be honest, I think they did that to keep the cost down, but nevertheless we are aiming towards a more Wireless future.
So I would have loved to see that, but we do get their famous charging, which claims to give a full days of power and just half an hour of charging which, when we tested it it’s about 60 %, give or take with moderate use. You can actually go on a full day with 60 % battery life left when I was using it. I usually finish the day off with about 20 to 30 %, but that is with heavy use. Something that’s living this year is the fingerprint sensor and they’ve actually reshaped it, which has less surface area than before, and they’ve placed it right below the dual cameras, which is a little annoying because I sometimes smudge the camera lens instead of tapping on the sensor. But I feel like over time I will get used to the placement. However, it is quick as ever and they’ve also brought back their face, unlock that’s freakishly fast. It recognizes your face, so quick that you might miss your lockscreen. I mean it’s not gon na be as secure as the iPhone face unlock, but it works great and honestly so far I haven’t run into any issues with it.
Every single one plus phone before this one was known for their mesh camera quality, and this year the company is promising much better performance from the two camera setup. The primary camera has a 16 megapixel Sony sensor with an F 1.7 aperture and an optical image stabilization. The second camera is also a Sony sensor, but with a 20 megapixel camera and again at F 1.7 aperture. What’S weird about this, configuration is that both cameras actually have the same focal length. Typically, in this setup, you would have one telephoto lens for a lossless two time zoom and the other lens would be a monochrome lens for those black-and-white stills, but how the 1 plus 6 cameras work is.
The second sensor actually captures the entire image detail and that’s sent over to the main cameras image for a better digital zooming. You also get lower noise and better detail and the end result drumroll, please it’s decent. I mean it’s definitely better than last year’s oneplus, but it’s far from phones like the pixel 2 and the iPhone 10. The software applies a little too much sharpening when I found that shot too noisy in darker environments, but they were overall much better than the 1 5 t in part due to the optical image, stabilization that also smooth it out our shaky videos. In the video front, we also get the super slow motion at 480 fps at 720p and 240 FPS at 1080p.
It’S really fun shooting in these modes, even though 40 FPS is limited to 1 minute, it still turns out to about 16 minutes of slow-motion footage, and you can even make the most normal things like a guy riding on a scooter. Look pretty cool the selfie cam is also pretty decent at 16 megapixels. Now I’m not a big selfie guy, so I won’t be using this as much, but I didn’t notice that the pictures are sharp without any Distortion. Oneplus hasn’t released a portrait mode for the camera. Yeah, but it’s coming soon after the phone’s release, so at the front we’ve got this edge-to-edge 1080p display and, of course, a notch, and, to be honest, I don’t mind its small and I don’t find it distracting. Like all there’s mites, if it bothers you, there is an option to hide it in the settings and speaking about software, it’s pretty close to stock.
Just like oneplus has always kept it. There are a few additions that I think add to the overall experience like a drawer to the left of the home screen. Now this is where you can pin widgets and have information quickly accessible. However, I do think they should allow users to switch this with the Google now feed, because I much prefer that instead, they’ve also kept the alert slider, which toggles between different sound profiles – and this is probably one of the most undervalued features on oneplus phones. I use it all the time and I hope they keep this going forward. We’Ve also got gestures if you want to maximize your screen real estate.
I got ta be honest. It was weird at first, but I didn’t get used to it quickly and now I have it turned on. So you swipe up to exit an app and then you swipe and hold for multitasking and to go back.
You basically swipe up on the right or left side. I mean it’s not as great as my iPhone tens gestures, but it’s a great start which hopefully, they will improve with software updates. Another welcome feature in oxygen.
Os is the dark theme which blacks out the system. Ui and with the AMOLED display, it looks great. The display by the way, is in the sharpest at 20 to 80 by 1080, but you’d have a hard time telling being AMOLED.
It has dark, blacks and the colors are vibrant. It has good viewing angles and no noticeable color tints. Overall, it’s great to look at.
There is one thing that does take away from the media experience, and that is the speakers I mean it does get loud, but the higher you go, the more teeny it sounds, and there isn’t even a second speaker hidden in the earpiece. So you are getting a truly mono experience. Fortunately, they have kept the headphone jack once again and they’ve added Bluetooth apx, which improves the sound quality with supported Bluetooth headphones before it’s. Why is this thing? Is a beast.
The snapdragon 845 you’re, not gon na see any stutter, especially since oxygen OS is so close to stock playing games like pub G mobile were no problem as expect and owning oneplus phones in the past. I didn’t expect this phone to slow down for a while. I, like other Android manufacturers. A snapdragon 845 also enables faster connection speeds with 4×4 MIMO, but here in the states were ways from that being available, but it’s nice to know that it’s future proof for $ 530. This thing checks a lot of boxes, but I wouldn’t call it a flagship killer, since it’s so bare bones and what I mean by that is that there aren’t any special hardware or features that make the oneplus 6 stand out against the rest of the crowd. If you’re someone that doesn’t have one grand to drop on the latest flagships and you’re looking for a smartphone with a great camera, modern hardware and an old 8 battery life with a headphone jack, then the well plus 6 is a great start. But if you’re someone is looking for something a little more, maybe it’s a higher resolution screen or better camera, or maybe just better sounding speakers than the 1 plus 6 is not for you and you should definitely look elsewhere and I pretty much wraps up my review Of the oneplus 6, if you guys enjoyed it, dropping a like, would be awesome and you can help support the channel I’ll drop a link to this down below. If you guys want to check it out and as always, I will see you in the next one.
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