Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “OnePlus X Review!”.
Hey, what is up guys, i’m kbhd here – and this is the oneplus x, in my opinion, the best really cheap smartphone that you can buy right now and even if you’re, not gon na buy this phone, it’s still worth, knowing that a phone like this exists. This is oneplus super budget 250 smartphone, where the whole point is to give an impressive premium feel in the hand at this low price, and they do this by using materials like metal and glass all the way around, which is awesome. So the flat edges have these ridged metal rails all around the edges are all chamfered and there’s this 2.5 d sort of curved glass on the front and the back kind of like the iphone 4s or the nexus 4.. So in the hand it feels really nice.
It has some weight to it. It doesn’t bend at all like some plastics would, but glass is definitely one of the slipperiest materials possible. So even though it feels pretty premium, naked you’ll probably want to at least slap a skin on this guy.
So i’ll drop a link to one of those below that like button and oneplus even includes this clear plastic case with this phone. So they kind of already acknowledge this, and, of course, glass is also a fingerprint magnet in this black color. So there’s also a white version available that shows less smudges but beyond materials. This is a classic oneplus piece of hardware, so power button and volume rocker on the right hand, side and the alert slider on the left hand, side really happy to see that there and there’s a decent speaker on the bottom. Only the left grille is a speaker and it gets kind of loud, but it definitely distorts at the highest volumes. Now inside you have a similar piece of hardware to, i guess the oneplus one so a snapdragon 801 adreno 330, three gigabytes of ram, which has been pretty awesome for a budget phone and right up front.
You have a five inch, 1080p amoled display and i got ta say this is the best feature of the phone. By far i always love oled displays, and this one is no exception. For me, it’s got inky blacks and the super contrasty really vivid, saturated colors. We love and this one’s actually pretty bright too. So that’s nice. Usually, you see a big drop off in the display quality of budget smartphones, but this display, despite it being you know, a little cooler, color temperature and a little bit smaller than most is legitimately quite nice and then to capitalize on this oled display.
Oneplus has some tweaks in oxygen os just for this phone to use black more often, which you might know, saves battery in an oled. So there’s a dark mode going on throughout the os dark background in the app drawer dark background in the settings app a darkened panel behind your quick settings and even includes a bunch of new wallpapers featuring pitch black. Although the one i’m using now is not one of the included ones, so i’ll include that below in case you want to rock it on one of your oled phones and yeah performance throughout the os is pretty nice pretty clean and smooth again top-notch for a true Budget phone – this is still technically on top of android 5.1. So you’ll note that i’m hoping it’ll get a marshmallow update soon enough, which will make it an even sweeter deal and oneplus is pretty good about software updates.
So, even before you get marshmallow, you get features like control over the app permissions which is built into oxygen. Os and customization features are everywhere. You can change the accent color of the whole os in this dark mode, so it’s cyan by default, but there’s a whole bunch of contrasty, bright presets and you can choose between on-screen or off-screen buttons, also as you’re accustomed to in other oneplus phones. You can use custom, icon packs and you can go through and change all kinds of stuff like the order of the quick settings, toggles and all the stuff in the shelf panel to the left of your home screens, etc.
All this stuff is familiar from more expensive phones like the oneplus 2, and you might not realize it at first, but it’s kind of nice to have these usability features and nice to have stuff. Usually, it’s stripped down from lower end phones, just to sort of make sure there’s a clear distinction, but not so here. This is a very complete software experience really all the same stuff that we love about the oneplus 2 and also battery life battery life was good for me, uh, it’s a roughly 2500 milliamp hour battery and i was getting around three and a half hours of screen On time so ending the day with a bit of battery to spare, mostly with brightness in your max and the usual, you know social stuff watching videos it handled occasional web browsing all that stuff. Fine. I think we can thank the oled display for a lot of those battery savings and you can’t forget to mention the expandable storage. This phone can hold either two sim cards or one sim card and one micro sd card and, lastly, the camera. Another area where budget smartphones usually fall off pretty hard. The oneplus x is rocking a 13 megapixel camera with an f 2.2 aperture, and it’s actually all right. It relies pretty hard on image processing since there’s no hardware stabilization but photos in normal light. Look nice and pretty much what you would expect from any smartphone decent sharpness, pretty tame colors, though a kind of a weak dynamic range without hdr and then getting into low light.
It doesn’t completely break down like some other budget smartphones, but it kind of hangs around which is nice to see and really a lot of the photo taking experience is helped by the fact that the camera app in oxygen os is so quick and simple. So there’s like almost no shutter lag, i really missed a shot with it. Plenty of smartphones in all kinds of budgets really struggle with the camera being slower, but this is definitely not one of them. So, at the end of the day, this is definitely my favorite super inexpensive smartphone coming in at that 250 bucks.
But don’t get fooled into thinking that this is the complete package. You definitely get what you pay for and to get a smartphone down to a low price like this, as we know with oneplus, you do have to take quite a few shortcuts and cost cutting is real, so no nfc in this phone, no 802.11 ac, wi-fi no 5 gigahertz wi-fi no usb type-c, no rapid charging, no wireless charging, no 4k, video, no ois, no raw photos and then one particularly curious emission on the inside no bands, 7 or 12, which will actually affect you a little bit if you’re a t-mobile or a t. Customer i’m an att user and i’m pretty much always on a t lte. Wherever i go on this phone, i spent some of my time on lte, but most of the time i was on 3g or hspa plus because of the lack of those bands, and that might be a big deal if you’re someone who relies on a really heavy Data connection or you use that all the time, but if you don’t, then that’s less of a big deal to you. So keep that in mind. There’S plenty of corners cut to make this work in a premium feeling device for such a low price. But if you know what you’re getting for the money and you’re okay with that, then this is definitely a great buy and i would have any problem recommending it. So anyway, that’s been it that’s oneplus x! Now you know, thanks for watching and i’ll talk to you guys in the next one peace .