Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “OnePlus Open Fold Unboxing (Emerald Dusk vs Voyager Black)”.
Here it is, we’ve got it: the new OnePlus open, folding phone. Actually, I’ve got a couple of them in different colors here, and you know it’s OnePlus when you see the red and black iconic packaging. We also see on the front of the package here that the Hasselblad partnership is intact. Now, when I showed you guys that kind of early look at the new OnePlus folding phone, I was kind of restricted on what I could show off in that video. Some of the design elements were kind of obscured. This, on the other hand, is the full deal. This is the retail packaging we’re going to learn what’s inside the Box, what the looks like this one here: 16 gigs Ram, 512 gig storage and in Emerald dust. The other package I’ve got Voyager black. Otherwise the specification is the same. Something interesting I discovered.
The emerald dusk is slightly heavier than the Voyager black. So something to do with that finish, which gives you that nice, color and texture actually gives you a little bit more weight as well and then on the Voyager. Black you’ve got this with they’re calling vegan leather texture on the back. But let’s start with the Green version now, obviously this is one oneplus’s first folding device and I’m happy to see more players in the folding device game. Obviously this means more options for the customer. Look at the unboxing experience, lovely stuff they’ve, of course got their saying in the center. There never settle, and here is the device.
And yes, it is nice and slim now we can show you the camera module and we can also appreciate the legitimate 3x zoom lens. That’S on there which not currently an option on other folding smartphones. We see it on other Flagship smartphones, but not on other folding smartphones. The other exciting part, is on the main camera sensor, where they’re using Sony’s lititia sensor. It is a pixel stack sensor and OnePlus claims it’ll give similar performance to Sony’s 1-in sensor. I think they didn’t want to compromise on cameras, even though it was a folding phone now something else you’re going to notice the way that this glass sits. Over top of the lenses, it sits over top of all all the different camera units, creating one flush, surface they’re, calling it a depth vacuum a legitimate Gap in there between the two on purpose, to kind of simulate the experience of like a luxury watch or something You can see the components underneath, but they are protected by this overlay that sits on top, and it gives you a flush finish rather than each individual camera unit bulging independently. The Flash occupies the very top corner. Here. We have a look at their external display, the entire device is ipx4, so it will be Splash resistant and they put a lot of work into the hinge in order to eliminate components in the past. These hinges can be north of 100 plus pieces. They’Ve got the number down to 69 Total Parts. They’Ve also worked on the construction of the device and the materials in use in order to make it more lightweight. Oneplus claims that this device is basically the same weight as an iPhone 14 pro Max now.
Obviously the 14 pro Max is a heavy device as far as non folding devices are concerned, but it’s still impressive to have a complete folding device coming in at the same weight as a non-folding one, which is what they were able to achieve here. Maybe it’s a good time to talk about cameras, the main sensor 48 megapix, that is, that Lydia pixel stacked sensor and then we’ve also got the 3x Zoom is a 70 mm focal distance which is good for portrait photos and then the ultra wide comes in at 14 mm, which is actually actually kind of nice, I’m curious to see how this Stacks up to other flagships, not just other folding phones. We have our fingerprint scanner over here on the right.
The alert slider is back and it’s larger than it has been previously. A lot of people were upset when OnePlus toyed with the idea of no alert slider well. Here it is, and it is tactile it is textured and it is satisfying.
We have our volume rocker, which is also quite large, and that sits right beside the alert slider USB type-c on the bottom of the device that is going to recharge from 1 to 100 %. This battery here in around 42 minutes, according to OnePlus, so you’ve got 67 wat super vuk charging and the battery size is just over 4,800 Mah hours in a dual cell setup to allow for that extremely Speedy recharge. The other thing I should mention you can see some of the speaker grills here they do have a triple speaker: spatial setups they’re, also talking about from a media consumption standpoint how the audio experience is going to be the other thing I should mention here. I was curious how the display would look on top of the hinge portion. I mean every folding phone needs to fold somewhere. This variety, like we’ve, seen so many different approaches to hinge construction. Each one has its benefits and drawbacks, but this agenda recently has been to diminish the significance or the appearance of a crease when you’ve got it unfolded and considering the fact that I don’t have the screen turned on right now. I’D say it’s actually pretty impressive.
What they’ve been capable of achieving front-facing camera when you have the display unfolded it’s in the top right corner. Here, that’s going to be a 20 megap capable camera also in the package we’re going to have a charger included, which is a nice touch in 2023. These are increasingly uncommon and it’s not just any charger. It’S that 67 wat capable super vop charger, so very rapid recharge, not just for your folding phone, but you’re going to be able to use this thing. A lot of other devices, considering it’s 67 wat, capable oh they’ve, even given us a case in here, it kind of ties in to look at the way they package that that’s interesting. It slides off it’s a plastic case, but it actually has a kind of pleasing texture to it. It is almost like that faux leather type of experience.
We do have a piece for the front as well. This one looks like it’s using an adhesive, often with these folding devices. I’Ll just put the rear portion on, and I actually find that putting the rear portion on helps me to open and close the device cuz. It gives me a ridge to grip onto with my thumbs.
I like this green, it’s kind of it’s almost like I, the green I’m wearing it’s kind of like an army, green, very elegant, unboxing experience. I it looks like we got a couple of other elements here. We do we have our iconic charge, cable, a USB, a Toc, white and red to go with the OnePlus theme and then just a oh, maybe more than just paperwork. There is a Sim tool and red cable glove, little membership card and stickers as well, are in there, so that is the emerald, dusk, green and then over. Here we have your other option, which is the Voyager black and I’m curious about this texture.
What the textures and feel like the OnePlus logo a little more prominent on this model, it kind of stands out a little bit more with the mirrored finish in the center, so this has texture meant to mimic leather. This is going to be your more executive. Look.
I actually like this. I think I would probably select for this one I don’t know about like long-term looks and durability, but immediately it’s resistant to fingerprints, a little bit more tactile feedback when you’re holding the device. Also, it’s interesting what this color change does to the appearance of the uh camera section. It Blends a little bit more on the black one, but you guys, let me know down in the comments. Would you select the Voyager black or Emerald dust? The design situation carries through as well to the frame of the device with the emerald setup. We have this glossy sort of polished, look around the perimeter and on the frame on the Voyager black. Instead, we have this brushed or matte. Looking finish, strong hat picks there as I’m playing around with the alert slider. The charger is identical as expected, and the case is different, very similar to the texture of the device itself.
These two are somewhat interchangeable. Little bit of a raised lip around the camera module. What’S nice about their camera setup here is typing anywhere down on the lower portion of the display in the closed format. Isn’T a ton of wobble? You can make it wobble if you go looking for it, but you’re not really tapping as much up there as you are down here. This thing is thin in its unfolded setup. It is 5 .8 mm folded up.
This here is listed at 11.7 MM. The exterior display is 6.31 in 2K resolution 120 htz and a peak brightness of 2800 internal display, obviously significantly bigger than external, coming in at 7.82 in resolution 2K, 120 HZ one more time and then you’ve also got 2800 Peak knits of brightness. So that’s on the inside and on the outside. There is a lot of contrast coming off of this screen.
I’M noticing that for a refresh we’re currently in the Auto Select mode, although we can lock it via this high setting, you can also toggle it back. As usual, conserve battery MO is asking me to bring the brightness down. He says: that’s too hot for the camera.
I’M saying I’m trying to show off the knits getting a nice little half dick on the interface as I adjust my brightness level. So the only reason we’re bringing this down is so that Mo can see it better on the camera. It was blasting our exposure, which shows you just how bright the display is and when the display is on that Central seam really shrinks.
If you’re sitting straight in front of this with a bright display, they have definitely pulled this screen with enough tension to really diminish that seam. That’S pretty cool OnePlus has said that this is so tight. This seam here that it is capable of holding a piece of paper. We have a piece of paper we’re going to insert the paper, that’s wild.
Actually, that is a tight hinge. It helps that the phone is is lightweight or lighter weight than other folding devices, but also that is a tight hinge. Cool they’ve also inserted this piece here, and I talked about this in the initial exposure I had to the device.
The hinge itself has this kind of bevel, which causes it to seal up so tightly in order to avoid particles from entering the space. Manufacturers are noticing that there are important design considerations that are exclusive to folding phones, and this is one of them. If, if you can stop things from entering in here, considering your softer displays on the inside of the device from a long-term durability perspective, you want to keep things off of there great about these folding phones at this point is, as they slim down and become lighter Using them in their folded, format actually does mimic the experience of a typical smartphone a lot better than it has in the past, and the behavior of your favorite apps and software will be identical to that of a typical smartphone in the folded State. I’Ll open up. The cameras – I am curious, so this is your 24 mm stacked sensor, Sony’s new sensor boom, very saturated high contrast, and it has also figured out a way to not blow out the light areas, including the ceiling in this case.
So if we move to 6, this is the equivalent 14 mm 3x is where we top out optically and then 6X we’re doing sensor, Zoom. So quite a bit of camera versatility. I think the main advantage here is just having a true zoom lens on a folding device. Of course, these look even better when I Max them out to the full display here, and you see you start to understand the benefits of a folding device.
When you open up that internal display, you say man if you’re just looking at pictures. It’S a totally different experience on this display than it is on the external one, and this is the part whenever I move away from folding phones. This is the part that I obviously Miss as well by the way their interface they’ve spent a lot of energy here. Give you some aspects that really make sense on a folding phone, including the that taskbar, that you noticed there.
If I’m just over here and I tap anywhere, I’m going to get this taskbar on the bottom. So I can quickly switch between apps, because I’ve got more real estate to work with all right now. As far as video goes, we got Snapdragon hn 2.
We can shoot all the way up to 4K. 60. Of course, we’ve also got a variety of settings for stability, including Ultra steady. However, that will adjust our resolution. We’Re just going to shoot here in uh, 1X, 4K, 60 and the audio that you’re hearing is coming through the device as well, and I will do my usual um go and talk to Mo because actually believe it or not.
He he’s actually prepared something. No come on um, no, no, the thing from before what thing from before it’s a test Mo! This is a this is what people do right: they analyze definition and sharpness and contrast yeah and the beards and everything so it’s good stuff and obviously the audio as well. So that’s why you need to say something: oh, like subscribe to this video yeah. Do that all right get back to the table? Well, you can’t subscribe to a video.
So obviously we have all types of settings in the camera app, including the pro section. If we want to get wild and start to dial in our ISO or our white balance to a particular color temperature, we can shoot in raw or raw plus to portrait mode. Hassleblad partnership and then, in the more section here we also have night mode dual view: video long exposures. We have slow motion all the features you wouldd expect to find on a flagship device. Now I am curious about what they’re calling their spatial audio triple setup patterns? Are for each one is going to be a spot for a weight that I need the magnet’s already, so this is obviously working best in this orientation.
Cuz we’ve got our speaker grills in that case on our left and right channel. So it’s giving you that stereo separation, which is legitimate on a folding phone like sure you can have it on your regular non-folding phone and it can help to enhance the experience but the more separate those become and the fact that we can have multiple grills here. It just gives you typically a better multimedia experience than what you can get on a standard non-folding phone.
It is loud, it’s extremely clear. I should probably play some music and don’t get me started as well on the split keyboard like super comfortable if you’re typing anything long, we’ve got nice hoptics here as well. Listen if you’re, like a power user, and you do a lot of stuff on your phone. You watch a lot of video.
I mean like there’s, really no experience like the folding phone. At the moment. The difference has been that you’ve had a bit of a brick in your pocket. Companies are working on that, like they’re, really trying to make these things thinner and lighter and more similar to slab style, smartphones, uh congrats to OnePlus.
I think they put together like a pretty compelling package here. As far as folding phones are concerned, and the main thing is, we’ve now got a new player in the game, putting pressure on all the other manufacturers. Obviously, I’d like to use this more extensively and I will uh, but there you have it. That is the OnePlus open.
Don’T forget to. Let me know in the comments which one you would pick out of the green or black. It is Emerald or it is Voyager, which one would you guys go for? .