Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “The Truth about the OnePlus 5T – REAL Review.”.
It’S very easy to praise the 1 plus 5t. The idea of a phone that ticks all of the boxes at a lower price is one that attracts attention and draws loyalty, but is there a little bit more to it? I’Ve been using the 5 T since a week before it’s launched. This is my real review, something I would say, is considerably overlooked. When it comes to this phone, is it misses out on what I would call flair, whether it’s the 120 Hertz display of the razor? The s-pen of the note, the software trickery of the Google pixel, the oneplus, doesn’t really have any of that. Yes, it’s true. The oneplus stands toe-to-toe with most phones in terms of its core competencies, but in most cases, these more expensive smartphones do also offer more stuff. On top of this now, these extra features don’t necessarily show up on a spec sheet.
For example, the motor mods you see on the motor or is f2 force. These stereo speakers you see on the pixel to excel. So in that sense, it’s very easy to fall into the trap of thinking.
The 5 T is doing everything the same, but just cheaper. That’S not exactly the full picture. One thing the 5 T does bring to the table is face.
Scanning gets slightly overhyped, I mean it’s not as fast or as secure as a fingerprint scanner here, which is pretty fantastic and dangly you’re on face scanning is a welcomed option, but it’s not what I’d call a unique selling point we’ll come back to this idea. In a few minutes – and we need not forget that there is a lot of really good things about this device. But a more interesting angle to take for this review is for us to start with its shortcomings, or at least what people have said against the 5 T Android 7.1, the software version. This firm is released on even sometime after Android Oreo has gone public and it caused reviewers, especially a little bit of a worry around launch time, because there was no official word on an Oreo release date. However, as of January 2018, already hit beta number 2 for the official Oreo ROM, so we’re gon na be seeing this in one to two months time at a maximum which is only slightly longer than what we’re expecting to wait. For the Galaxy Note. 8. 1.
5. T doesn’t support SD cards like oneplus his previous devices, but this can almost be ignored. The top-tier fully upgraded 5 T is still way too / than the competition and weird 128 gigabytes of storage, of which over 110 gigs is usable. You pretty much should have to worry about running out of space.
The lack of water resistance has also been criticized and, to some extent I agree, it’s a bit of a shame. This phone doesn’t even have ip67 certification, but this is a non-issue. I can’t think of a single person who bathes with their smartphone and for the odd instance, you might drop your phone in water. This guy’s gon na survive it anyway.
I don’t endorse dunking it for the sake of it, but at the same time, this has enough resistance. The last stab that people have really taken at this phone is that wireless charging is absent, but a spokesperson has said is due to incompatibilities with charging. Now the thing with wireless charging is you either use it or you don’t? If you use it, it’s highly important to you and to be honest, you should start looking for a different phone now, but if you don’t, it bears absolutely zero weight to your buying decision. So if you’re perfectly happy using a cable and that’s what you’re used to then this aspect, just like the water-resistant, the lack of SD cards and the older version of Android – can be overlooked. All right. The camera on the 1 5 T is a bit of a hot topic with the oneplus 5, whereas the camera was originally understood to have two times optical zoom. It turns out, I used a combination of optical and digital and so wasn’t quite lossless. Unfortunately, the 1 5 T is even worse.
It uses purely digital zoom. There is no telephoto lens here, so it now suffers even more when it comes to zooming in it still does fare better than the pixel to excel in this aspect, but it’s really not great. Side-By-Side where both the 1 5 and the 5 t was zoomed in at 5.6 times, the image was much clearer. On the 5, the pixel, on the other hand, has zero capacity for lossless zooming and at the same magnification.
The image very quickly becomes soft portrait mode, though now is way better on the 5 t bonus point for not needing to zoom in like the iPhone and the note 8, but the edge detection on this phone is still not quite up there with those. So as you’ve seen, the 5 t does have a couple of pros over the competition. Unfortunately, in every other aspect, the camera lags behind the pixel, the note 8 and the iPhone 10 in low-light. Even with this new sense of the phone has photos, get pretty grainy. Pretty quickly in HDR scenarios it can sometimes blow out highlights and despite having a higher megapixel count thence the other smartphones, sometimes and often times, detail it’s lower.
Some reviewers have criticized the 5 T for not having dual front firing. Speakers which, I would say it seems a little bit on the harsh side in a stage where only 50 % of the flagship phones have any sort of multi speaker setup. It would seem kind of fair that in trying to cut price speakers would be a good place to start. But if the question is, are we getting the exact same experience as more expensive phones? The answer is not quite most $ 700, plus phones, even with single speakers, including the Galaxy s8, actually sound better than the 5 T. So this is another one of those things where considering the price. It’S fine, it’s decent. It works, but that’s not the same as saying it is like for, like as good as the pricier phones and a similar story holds true for display. The AMOLED technology allows for deep contrast and vivid tones, but resolution wise. It’S very mid-range.
You can quite easily by phone at to one hundred and fifty dollars that has the same resolution as the 5 T. But you could look at this the other way and see a smart cost-saving in an area that people wouldn’t really be able to tell, because, even though this is a large 6-inch display with a fairly mediocre resolution, it still looks good whether you’re flicking through the UI Browsing the internet, enjoying the pictures and videos this display really enriches the experience. It is nearly edge to edge and is very immersive screen to enjoy content on, but just bear in mind in the back of your head.
There is a sacrifice: it’s not a huge one, but this is not a 2k screen and in some aspects you can tell all right what we’ve said so far might be painting a bit of a negative image of this phone, but in terms of battery life, this Phone has absolutely killed it alongside the original 1 5. It beats most others in terms of charging speed and battery life, not a world apart, but enough to be able to cement its lead. When it comes to performance, it doesn’t even matter what price bracket we are talking about.
The 5 t is top dog. The combination of an overclocked snapdragon 835, the most ram you can get in a smartphone and a bloat free user interface means it just flies. It doesn’t really matter what you do. It could be graphics, gaming benchmarks, this phone tears through all of it, whether it’s uploading times out closing times multitasking, it wins all of them. Here’S a thing go any comparison. We’Re gon na make to be 1 plus 5.
It’S gon na make this phone look great, but this isn’t the only comparison that needs to be made as the 1 plus 5 is ultimately flawed in of itself. The 5 t does everything you need to do on your phone and very well and after using it for a period of time, you start to forget about what it is missing. It’S only when you again draw parallels with other phones that you’re reminded of the poor speaker. The lower resolution display the lack of wireless charging, expandable storage S, Pen and the list goes on, but then you’ve got to ask yourself one by one. Am I happy to make these omissions for this drastically reduced price, and I reckon 90 % of people would say? Yes, we throw in the miracle that is charging you throw an extreme performance and fast face. Unlocking and the 5 T easily makes one of the top value smartphones in 2017.
More powerful phones are coming very soon, but are likely to be twice as expensive. So as a prospect, the 5 T is every bit as valid as it was on launch day. So as a bit of an overarching conclusion, I would say this: when you go and buy the 1 5 t, it’s not like you are gon na, get what every other flagship phone offers, but for just over half the price.
What you are getting, though, is a flagship experience at the very core, but one in which sensible exclusions have been made all the way around, which ultimately make this a slightly less capable phone than a lot of the other ones it’s up against, but one that ultimately Ends up being much better value thanks a lot for watching guys. I really hope you enjoyed the video and, if you did don’t forget, to smash that subscribe button down below my name is Erin. This is mr. V’s boss and I’m signing out [ Applause, ] [ Applause ]. You .