- Don't settle for less than,
but is that exactly what OnePlus is asking us to do
in order to buy their smartphone?
Is it worth savin' a few hundred bucks
and losing a few key features?
These are the things I feel
you need to know before you decide to make this purchase.
The speed you need, that's what we wanna know.
Does this phone really have the speed
and the power it's boasting?
This is my first thoughts on it.
You load it up, you get it goin', it's smooth.
It's fast.
It's fluid.
You're not gonna, I, didn't run into any hiccups,
no lag, no issues.
However, this is a brand new out of the box smartphone.
How often do you take a perfectly good phone
out of the box and you have issues?
When it comes to Android,
I think that it's really hard for us to gauge
and to say how amazing the speed is on this phone
because we haven't had it long enough
to give it the test of time.
After all the apps are loaded up,
after it becomes my daily driver,
after I've got it suckin' power and energy
and processin' everything else,
how's it going to perform then?
Personally, I don't know yet.
I think it's too soon to tell.
We gotta give it a little more time and find out
how is this phone going to perform over time.
But for the moment, as I'm using it, it's phenomenal.
It's quick, it's snappy, there's no lag,
things are goin' quick.
What I did notice,
and maybe I haven't dug into the settings enough,
but the multi-screen function isn't there,
it wasn't available like it was on my Pixel.
I'm gonna get into the settings a little bit more
and find out whether or not that's there.
I did become very used to that in the Pixel,
I don't know if OxygenOS is pushin' it.
I do have a feeling that there's gonna be
some sort of setting I gotta tweak to make that happen,
but for the most part, productivity, it's been great.
Okay, at the OnePlus event,
it came with the sandstone cover,
which was really nice and feels amazing.
I did not get the sandstone OnePlus device.
I wasn't into OnePlus then,
so I didn't even know it existed.
But now, they gave us a cover, a back for it
and I like it, I really dig it.
And now, here's the back.
You can kinda see, it's this
really shiny little glassy looking thing.
I'm thinkin', I'm thinkin' I should be able to do
wireless charging through here.
But I can't.
There's no wireless charging on this device.
Is that a problem?
Right?
530 bucks entry level.
I'm givin' somethin' up.
Am I givin' up wireless charging?
Yeah, you are.
Is it that important?
That's the question, right?
I've always been a big fan.
I enjoy wireless charging.
I like to be able to set my phone down at the office,
set my phone down next to my nightstand
when I go to bed at night,
but I also don't mind plugging it in,
especially if the battery's low
and I'm trying to be productive
and I'm trying to do some things
that I can also charge my phone while I'm using it.
I don't mind the Dash Charge.
Actually, the Dash Charge is super quick.
It's speedy, it's, that's it does exactly what it says.
Dash Charge.
I don't think there's a sacrifice there at all.
You are forfeiting wireless charging
but you have Dash Charge and the phone
is only a 3300 milliamp battery which means
it charges a little bit quicker than the 3500 ones.
I haven't had a chance to use it enough to tell you
do I get all day use out of it.
The reason I haven't been able to use this phone
all day is the network.
The phone, from what I understood,
was being sold as an unlocked device.
But, I put my Verizon sim card in here
I got data, slow data, but I didn't get any voice.
I couldn't make a call, I couldn't send a text message,
incoming, outgoing, nothing.
I was ready to put my main sim card in here
and do this as my daily driver.
My phone calls, my text messages.
This is the phone I'm gonna call Mom on, right?
This is what I was committed to do.
But, it wouldn't work on the Verizon network 100%.
So what I did is I went and got my pre-paid
T-Mobile sim card, popped it in, threw 70 bucks
on my account, text messaged the authorization.
Boom!
My phone's working again.
Data, voice, text message, no problem.
Actually works really good.
The battery from what I'm using it for
right now is working good, but unfortunately
I'm not using it as my full-time device
and I'm not gonna be able to so I'm gonna have a hard time
giving you your battery opinion.
But, I'm using it all the time.
I'm using it for everything.
That's how much I like it.
I'm enjoying it.
You guys know I'm a Pixel addict.
I'm addicted to my Pixel, I love it, but this phone
I like as equally as much as I like my Pixel.
Why?
That's the question.
First, they finally stepped it up with an all-edge screen.
Thank you.
I appreciate it.
Namaste.
Second, OxygenOS that they laid on top of it.
Light, easy, not complicated.
Touch Wiz, Samsung, big, clunky, messy,
it just infects everything.
That's my least favorite part of my Samsung Galaxy S9
is the user interface.
I don't like it.
This reminds me a lot of stock Android.
There are differences.
It is not stock Android.
Don't think it is.
OnePlus still has their hand in this
and they're still making their mark with OxygenOS.
But it's so close to stock Android
I think that if you're a Android purist,
then you're gonna be happy.
Light, fluffy, easy smooth, operating system.
It's water resistant just like
all the other major flagship phones
no sacrifice there.
Next, I want to talk to you about the camera.
How important is low light photography to you?
Leave me a comment in the comments below,
right down there, and tell me
how important is low light photography to you?
Because if it's real important, I'm here to tell you
this guy is not blowing the Galaxy S9 out of the water.
It's not taking the cake, it's not taking the lead.
The Samsung Galaxy S9 has something really special
going on and we have to give it to them, right?
This phone's not taking it away.
So don't think that because it's got a 1620,
very impressive that it has the sensors and the
apertures that Samsung has, because it doesn't.
However, let me tell you about the 1620 camera.
The pictures are phenomenal.
I don't want to spoil the surprise,
I don't want to hurt my camera comparison video
coming up real soon but, the pictures are stunning.
You are not going to be disappointed.
If you're here for a camera phone without
having to walk around with a professional camera
in your pocket and you still want killer pictures
then this is going to to do it for you.
This is your champion, right?
Your champion.
You're gonna love it.
You got your fingerprint scanner, super easy, really quick.
The fastest face unlock I've ever seen on the planet.
You have the haptic feedback when you touch the phone,
really nice, easy enjoyable even.
You've got your headphone jack, big thumbs up.
You've got your front-facing speaker,
not speakers, just one.
It's good enough, right?
It's not a boom box, don't think it is.
But it sounds good.
So my first impressions of this device.
Do I feel it is worth the sacrifice of a handful
of key features that we have grown to love, expect and enjoy
in order to save a few hundred bucks?
That's the question.
I think the answer's yes.
I think in order to jump into a phone of this quality
all-edge screen, super fast at...
Did you see how fast that face ID was?
It's crazy!
Super fast face ID unlock, fingerprint, dual camera, 1620,
stellar pictures, good sound, good battery, Dash Charge.
I mean we can sit here and talk about what it doesn't have
or we can sit here and talk about what it does have.
Water resistant, boykin pictures.
It keeps goin'!
The phone has got what you need.
The speed you need.
It's got it all.
The 8 gigs of RAM in the 128 model, you can't beat it.
I'm tellin' you.
Sometimes I get choked up thinking
about how solid this phone is, right?
Here is my final thought that I want to leave with you
and I want to leave with Carl.
Because I know you're watching, Carl.
What I want you to realize, think about.
If you can do a phone like this
for 530 bucks for your base model,
what can you give me at 750 bucks?
That's what I want us to think about.
What can OnePlus give us for 750.
Apple gives us something incredible at 1100.
But OnePlus for even 700 they could probably give us
the world, we just gotta let 'em.
It's just a great brand, it's a great phone.
Support the brand.
Help them become something bigger and better for us.
If you're on the fence as to whether or not
you want to buy this phone, I say take the leap and buy it.
Own it.
Make it yours.
For The Love Of Tech, you know what we're doing here today.
We're always doing a giveaway.
The giveaways we love, I love guaranteed
I'm giving away a OnePlus 6.
Guaranteed.
I know that for sure.
Are there going to be other prizes?
Yes, there's gonna be other prizes.
I don't know exactly what they are yet
because I haven't bought them.
But when's the giveaway?
The giveaway's going to be in July.
July when?
I don't know but you're gonna find out.
I gotta look at the calendar,
I gotta do this, I gotta do that,
I'm gonna let you know when it is.
But in order to qualify for the giveaway
you gotta go ahead and give me
a Roman Numerals 672 dash comment.
And tell me in the comment, right?
Tell me in the comments what feature do you wish
the OnePlus 6 has that it currently doesn't?
Or, if you're completely satisfied with the way it is
right now today, let me know that.
There's no wrong answers.
Give me the Roman numerals, a dash,
leave me my comment, then I'll send something back to you
and we'll have a great discussion.
'Cause that's what it's all about.
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And For The Love Of Tech, Namaste.