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00:00Hey, how's it going? Dave2D here. So the OnePlus 6 is supposed to come out relatively soon,
00:08sometime in Q2 of 2018, so probably like mid to late June is my guess. And there have been
00:12a lot of rumors as to what it's going to look like, what it's going to be like, etc. But
00:16because of the launch of the Oppo R15 and the Vivo X21, both of those are phones made
00:21by the same parent company, BBK, and because in the past some of the OnePlus phones have
00:26looked a lot like the Oppo phones, people think like, hey, it's going to be like, that's
00:30the phone, that's the OnePlus 6. But I disagree, I actually don't think that's what it's going
00:33to be like. We saw this picture leak at the end of February, and a lot of people dismissed
00:38it because it just didn't really look like the classic OnePlus phone, and it just didn't
00:42look like the Oppo R15 leaks that were happening. But I actually think this is the real OnePlus
00:466. I made a 3D model based on this picture just to kind of get a sense of what it would
00:50feel like and just kind of the placement of things based on that photo. And this is what
00:55it looks like. It's obviously not amazing, this is one of my very first attempts at modeling
00:58anything, but I thought I'd show you. Okay, I think the OnePlus 6 is going to look quite
01:02different from those other two Chinese phones. I think it's going to look more classically
01:06OnePlus with the camera right in the middle, lined up with the fingerprint sensor. Now
01:09my reasoning is this. When the OnePlus 5 launched, a lot of publications and reviewers really
01:14liked the phone. It was a really good phone. But there was one issue that I think everyone
01:18kind of talked about, and it was the similarities in aesthetics to Apple's iPhone 7. And there
01:22was a little bit of backlash to this. I don't think OnePlus enjoyed the criticism, but they're
01:27different from your average Chinese phone manufacturer. They try to bring their stuff
01:30into North America. They try to bring their stuff into other markets outside of Asia.
01:34And when you get that type of criticism as a company like OnePlus, where you actually
01:38care about public perception of your brand and public perception of what you try to do
01:42with your phones, I don't think they're going to do that mistake again. I don't think they
01:45want to be criticized for copying Apple. So I really think that their design is not going
01:49to look like the Oppo R15 or the Vivo X21. It's going to look like that leak from a while
01:53ago. We're looking at dual cameras, vertically stacked with the fingerprint sensor on the
01:57back. But new for this year is the material. So instead of that sandstone finish that we
02:01saw with the original OnePlus phones, or the anodized aluminum that we saw with the newer
02:04generation phones, they're going with something completely different. This looks to be a glass
02:09back, so something more similar to a Samsung phone. Now there's the possibility it's a
02:12ceramic material. We've seen OnePlus work with ceramics in the past, the OnePlus X,
02:17but it just seems unlikely. See, on the essential phone, any kind of ceramic phone, it's just
02:22a heavier phone. And on a larger phone like the OnePlus 6, I doubt they'll be using ceramic.
02:27My guess is it'll be glass. The other thing I noticed is that the notification switch
02:31looks like it's going to be positioned on the right. So every single OnePlus phone we've
02:35ever had before has had that notification switch on the left, like that slider where
02:39you can mute the notifications and stuff. It now looks like it's positioned on the right,
02:42just above the power button. Okay, let's talk about the display. The display is probably
02:46its most prominent change, and it looks like it's going to have a notch. And I think this
02:49is something that's quite polarizing. Some people hate the notch, some people are tolerant
02:53of it, some people might even like it. But regardless, the notch seems to be creeping
02:57into the Android space more and more. So we saw it first on the essential phone. I think
03:00they did it quite well, they were the first people to do it. But with that tiny notch,
03:03it seemed okay. And then the iPhone X kind of brought it into mainstream. I don't know
03:07how I feel about it. Like, on one hand, I've seen so much of it that I've gotten used to
03:11it. But at the same time, it's a notch. And aesthetically speaking, objectively speaking,
03:15it's just, it's not a pretty thing, regardless of how you spin it. But it is what it is.
03:19I feel like Android has just kind of adopted the notch. We're even seeing notch support
03:23in the Android Peppermint developer preview. So yeah, I feel like it's going to be a thing.
03:28Now the good thing is the OnePlus 6 is probably going to use an OLED panel, so the blacks
03:31will be quite black. It'll help to mask the notch, but it's still a notch. Okay, headphone
03:36jack, it's going to be on there. There's no way that OnePlus is going to remove the headphone
03:40jack from the OnePlus 6. Two reasons. One, I mean, it is OnePlus, they take pride in
03:44the fact that they have a headphone jack. But the big thing for me is OnePlus is huge
03:49in India. I think they're like one of the, if not the most prominent, like luxury brand
03:53of smartphones there. And I mean, they love the headphone jack there. You remove that,
03:58you're just going to decimate your, your audience. So they're not going to do that. OnePlus 6
04:02is going to have a headphone jack. Okay, I want to talk about pricing. That's the last
04:06thing. We've seen price creep up very slowly over the course of these phones, and they
04:09basically go up by like 30 or 40 bucks every iteration. Now, if you follow that trend,
04:13if you kind of follow that pricing history, the OnePlus 6 should theoretically be like
04:17530 bucks, but I just don't think they'll do it. Once they cross that $500 barrier for
04:22like the base model, the 64 gig model, it feels like a different phone. You just can't
04:26call it like a, you know, less than $500 phone. I feel like the 64 gig model will still be
04:31$499, but that's just a wild guess to be honest. It's just like an educated guess. Okay, hope
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04:40next time.
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