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00:00Hey, how's it going? Dave2D here, and this is the OnePlus 5. And OnePlus is a company
00:07which at this point doesn't need an introduction. This is their flagship phone for 2017. I think
00:12this is the best looking OnePlus phone to date. It has a double camera on the back and
00:16because they placed it in the top left corner, it's gonna look similar to the iPhone 7 Plus.
00:21It's a very clean and minimal looking design. Super thin phone, it's coming in at 7.25 millimeters.
00:27It's their thinnest phone yet, and I like how it looks. I think a lot of people will
00:30mistake this for an iPhone 7 Plus, and I guess depending on who you are or what you want
00:34your phone to do, that could be a good thing or a bad thing. I don't love the antenna lines.
00:38I know they have to be somewhere, but these look a little too apply for me. And if you
00:43want to hide them, you can just get a skin from dbrand. They'll also protect the finish
00:46and make it less slippery. I'll leave a link for them below. It has great build quality
00:50again, and in its naked form, it's comfortable to hold, but it's really smooth. I'm not sure
00:55if it's the anodization process or the finish of the metal, but it's a very slick device.
01:00It has the alert slider again, with three positions, and an LED notification that has
01:04user customizable colors. The display is still 5.5 inches, and it's still 1080p, and I think
01:10it's the right choice outside of VR, because it's like the perfect balance between good
01:13resolution and good battery life. It has Dash Charge again. If you're not familiar with
01:18Dash Charge, it's basically really fast charging for the phone. The OnePlus 3 had it, and I
01:23gotta be honest, I think this is the best feature of the entire OnePlus line. If you
01:27ever fall asleep and you don't charge your phone, when you wake up in the morning, and
01:30you're like, oh my god, I have no battery, you plug it in for 20 minutes while you're
01:33getting ready, and you're good to go for most of the day. Now there's a few things that
01:36haven't changed that I'm not a fan of. They didn't change the position of the fingerprint
01:40sensor, and I know this is a subjective thing. I would have preferred it on the back. I just
01:44prefer them on the back. It's still on the front, and it still only has a single speaker
01:48on the bottom. I know a lot of people don't care about that, but it's something I care
01:51about, and it's also not IP rated. It's probably water resistant to some degree, it's just
01:56not officially certified with any kind of number. It's running Oxygen OS again, and
02:02a lot of companies put a thick coat of like third party sauce on their software. I've
02:05always liked the way that Oxygen OS feels. It's basically stock, but with a few extra
02:09tweaks to give it some more functionality. So a few things that have changed, it has
02:13Bluetooth 5.0, so you get better speeds, better range, and support for two headphones at once.
02:19It's running a Snapdragon 835, and it uses some speedy UFS 2.1 memory. So the combination
02:24of a fast processor with fast storage makes it very zippy when doing anything. So when
02:29you're unlocking the phone, launching the camera, launching apps, using apps, it's a
02:33quick phone. The battery is 3300 mAh, which is bigger than the OnePlus 3, but smaller
02:38than the OnePlus 3T. That was 3400 mAh, and there were rumors that it would be 4000 mAh.
02:44It's not. It's 3300, but because of the more efficient processor, the OnePlus 5 has better
02:49battery life than the previous generations. It's still a full day battery though. It's
02:52not even close to being a two day battery, but with Dash Charge on this thing, I'm content
02:57with battery life. There's another thing I need to mention. OnePlus as a company has
03:01matured over the years, and one of the issues it had in the beginning was customer service.
03:05I had one of the original OnePlus Ones, and I had a nightmare returning that thing for
03:10repairs. It was just, I think it was like a two or three month process, and it was just
03:13jumping through hoops and flames. It was just not a fun process. OnePlus 3T, a week
03:18and a half, two weeks without a phone, sent it back, no issues. And if you go on forums,
03:22you look at XDA or just go on Reddit, their customer service has improved so much over
03:27the years. At this point in time, I would consider them equal to some of the bigger
03:30companies out there. Now the big upgrade this year is the camera. Dual camera system with
03:35a lot of buzz about this thing because OnePlus announced that they were working with DxOMark
03:39to make something pretty awesome, and, well, I think it is. So right off the rip, the camera
03:44launches super fast, and that's step one of any good smartphone camera. Double click,
03:49and you're in. Photos I took in well-lit environments look great. The colors look proper. Nothing
03:54feels over-saturated or over-processed. Photos in low light look good as well. As long as
03:58it's not too dark, they're exposed properly. There's obviously some grain, but it's nothing
04:02too bad. I did notice, though, when it's really dark, the camera seems to overcompensate and
04:07tries to make it brighter than it needs to, and it just ends up looking really grainy.
04:11The autofocus is fast, and it has portrait modes from the dual cameras for some of that
04:14creamy bokeh, but the most impressive thing to me was the dynamic range on this camera.
04:19So dynamic range is how well a camera can differentiate between the darkest and brightest
04:24areas of a single photo. So this is a photo of the sun and some buildings. This is a very
04:29difficult shot to capture. The sun is so bright that everything else is going to look dark
04:33in comparison. This is how the OnePlus 5 captures it. It's pretty good, right? I think
04:38the camera on this thing is really solid. Now, image quality is subjective, and it's
04:42kind of hard to crown one as, like, the best camera or the winner of the cameras, but I
04:46will say this. At this price point, that sub-$500 price point, this thing has the best camera
04:52right now. Now, speaking of price, the OnePlus 5 costs $480 for the 64GB model, which makes
04:57it really price competitive. The OnePlus 5 is packed with awesome hardware for the money.
05:02It's like the poster boy of the appropriately priced smartphone. It has a premium aluminum
05:07build. It's a little slippery. Get a dbrand skin for it. It has a 5.5-inch 1080p screen,
05:12and it's got a fast fingerprint sensor up front. On the back, we have the dual camera
05:16system, 16-megapixel main shooter, 20-megapixel telephoto, and combined, they deliver some
05:21very impressive photos, especially in regards to dynamic range. Inside, it's packed with
05:26the fast processor, fast storage, and 6GB of RAM for the base model. The upgraded model
05:31has 8GB of RAM if you're interested, and then the battery is 3300mAh, and it'll comfortably
05:35last you a full day of heavy use. There are a lot of phones in the sub-$500 market, and
05:40a lot of them are good, but if I had to make a recommendation right now in mid-2017, it
05:44would be this one, the OnePlus 5. Really impressed with it this year. Hope you guys enjoyed this
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