so if you follow me on Twitter you would have seen that yes I am definitely gonna
review this one and that's what I've got right now though one plus six doesn't
really need an intro most of you will know this mobile phone by now I'm a
little late I know but what we have here is of course their latest flagship so
every five six months oneplus rolled out a new model and well this one has made
some you could say minor tweaks the display now has a notch I'm not really
agreeing with that but even oneplus themselves they mentioned they they
tweeted learn to love the not something along those lines and it got a huge
amount of hate and backlash that they actually removed it and that was before
they announced that they have a knotch phone I'm not very fond of that trend as
most of you know but I will not rant on about that it's there we have to accept
it we can't do anything about it the screen is to point sorry six point two
eight inches it's an optical AMOLED panel with a resolution of 20 to 80 by
1080 and it's anything like the previous panels it should look really good so
very bright deep blacks we have a unibody build that should be quite thin
or half of course the alert slider dual cameras on the rear so one is 16
megapixels the other 20 if 1.7 aperture they've now added optical image
stabilization which is good to see we didn't have that on the previous model
and it was missing that I feel for low-light photography but we do of
course have that brilliant electronic image stabilization using a gyro that
works out really well for video and up to now 4k 60 frames per second I'm
looking forward to testing that out it will be my first 4k 60 frames per second
mobile phone front-facing camera 16 megapixels with that electronic gyro
stabilization which was again good to see June nano-sim so the storage options
64 to 256 gigabytes new FS 2.1 specs that'll be really fast 6 to 8 gigabytes
of RAM I have the base model which is just the 64 gigabytes and the six gigs
of RAM while ICC as well as on here of course with Bluetooth 5 let's check this
one out ok so let's check out the internals I'm
pretty sure most of you know this so I'll go pretty quick here so
obviously we've got the phone here we have the case that they'll give us so
this is one of those TPU style ones I believe yes it is
so that's included there so we've got instruction manual sim tool and there is
our case there so yeah it's it's a cheap kind of case it does cover the buttons
there at least so they're not going to get damaged and better than nothing
having these kind of cases of course you can get they're more premium cases from
them and those ones are a huge step up in quality over these ones and here we
have the typical - charging cable so this cable and the charger is required
to get the maximum speeds you can use other quick charges but you will not get
the same kind of result using these cables as in a way a con because if you
happen to be at your workplace you've got this at home you won't be able to
charge as fast and this is the - charger so it's a little chunky and it does get
really quite hot when you are charging the phone there so the maximum output is
5 volts but a rather high 4 amps so long the front we have that little notch
there now I'm saying a little notch because look at the size difference
compared to my me 8 now this one is really wide okay they do have an
infrared light in the front of that one that's why it is so wide there the
camera is 16 megapixels like the main camera on the rear the bottom bezel it's
actually quite small it's not too bad it's very short shorter then again the
me 8 here so very quickly 3.5 millimeter headphone jack love this move they did
not remove it microphone type C port and a downward firing loudspeaker along the
top a secondary mic used for noise cancellation and in video right here
right side the alert slider now this is very handy a lot of people saying you
don't need this but have you ever been in that situation we were expecting a
call but you're talking to someone and you don't want to put your phone out and
put it in silent mode flip the switch up it's in silent mode
you can do that when it's even in your pocket we've got the power button right
there and you can see one of the antenna lines at the top so they are visible
on the left you'll see two more antenna lines we have the sim tray there and the
volume up and down buttons so the red your cameras on here the main one is 16
megapixels with optical image stabilization gyro assisted electronic
image stabilization as well so just like the 5 to 5 T the previous models and we
also have below it a 20 megapixel sensor now this one will be used when you get
those dip affect photos that's when it uses the dual cameras so it'll capture
the background to give you that blurred background and then your subject and
focus dual tone LED flash below that the fingerprint reader which is now more of
a rectangle not round and then the 1 plus logo of course so in hand the phone
feels very very familiar it feels just like the 1 plus 5t the 1 plus 5 and
overall build quality is excellent I like the the rounded corners there just
make it a little bit better when you're holding it in hand now a very slippery
shiny back on here this is the midnight black version so it's got like a
mirror-like finish Gorilla Glass 5 on the front and I think
that's also Gorilla Glass 5 on the rear as well there so overall yes premium
build feels great in hand the buttons as well have a good feeling they are made
out of metal so I will pair it on here for the first time I won't go through
the whole setup so one part of the setup that I will show you is to add your face
data or cover this really quick now that banding you're seeing slowly going down
that is a trait of AMOLED panels when I record them with my current sony a6300
camera it's not happening in person so don't worry about that but let's see
what happens how quick it is to scan my face data ok you got to put a pin in
first ok so I gotta get it my head and here obviously I've got my camera tripod
and all that sort of stuff in the way
okay so there it didn't take too long and now we are set up with the face
unlocking now I know I didn't set this up ideally because my face wasn't really
actually close enough when I scanned it so I'll hit the power button to wake the
device and then look at it and there we go so that is very quick that's only
what about a second or something it does heaven look at the gamma at the moment
so it's around 2.4 both panels about 2.3 2.4 on gamma but I'm seeing already that
the blacks are a little bit deeper even with the screen protector on the 1
plus 6 it still looks a little deeper okay so the bottom phone here this is
one plus 6 have a look at the blacks remember the screen protector is on this
one and here we have the me 8 and it's a little hard to tell it's very hard to
capture this on camera but you can see at least from where I'm sitting that the
blacks just aren't as deep on the AMOLED panel of the me age now the me a I
believe the culprit is not the screen not the AMOLED panel from Samsung it's
actually the glass or the bonding the process they have used here so nice
looking blacks coming through on this AMOLED panel on the oneplus X and just
to show some of the test images here so it is a fantastic looking screen very
good if you're not happy with the color calibration out of the box you can go
into the settings and you can adjust that to your own personal preference but
I'm really liking what I'm seeing the viewing angles as expected for an AMOLED
panel even a game with my screen protector on looks really good so when
you first get the phone depending on what firmware it ships with you're gonna
have to be patient there are a lot of updates to go through first and of
course you must really grab these these are bug fixes and important but it is
great to see that one plus are on to it and patching things so the phone is
running Android 8.1 it has a May first security patch level which is good so we
do have a notification LED it's actually just next to the earpiece left of it
there you can customize the colors and all that you can enable certain gestures
there's quite a few in here I like to have the double tap to wake one now
these status bar because of the notch we still can't see the battery percent even
if you change the batteries style here into the circle one
it's not big enough to actually put the percent right in the middle of that
which is the same a shame there so if you want to see it because you're gonna
have to just swipe down then it will tell me I have 50% battery left
DRM info here a lot of people want to see this so it's Widevine level one so
this is gonna be good for your Netflix treble check this is an app to check for
project treble and the good news here it has full seamless system update support
just finished running and - - and you can see the result of this benchmark is
slightly slower than the me eight but I mean there's nothing to it this is only
a few thousand points here so with my 64 gigabyte model here you're looking at
approximately 50 to 251 gigabytes free I've already installed a few apps
I was about to comment that on the go storage doesn't seem to work but it does
you have to remember to go into the Advanced Settings and enable it it
automatically turns itself off after 10 minutes this is for security reasons so
one of my very minor complaints it's not a deal breaker or anything like that
it's nothing serious but we don't have dual loudspeakers on the oneplus sex
house but disappointed that they didn't add this so we have the one down firing
speaker on the bottom
tiny bit of bass it is very loud though I will give them that so general use of
the phone it's just like the previous models and that it is really fast very
fluid the experience swapping between apps to scrolling through things
scrolling on Chrome for example really smooth the screen refresh rate seems
purple you find the touch response is also really good like it doesn't lag
behind where your fingers which sometimes happens on some well cheaper
models really not a premium phone and just rendering pages and loading things
up also to really quite quick I do like here with the knotch that we
have the notifications at least can be seen properly something we don't get
with shell mean I mentioned that we cannot see the battery percent there
which is a little bit of a shame there but we have to pull down swipe down with
the toggles and then you see notifications are when you had them on
the show me at least you get the small little icons or the 1 plus 6 so the
camera app it's very straightforward it's self-explanatory here now wanted to
point out that video all the way up now to 60 frames per second which is really
good because I have reviewed now three other Snapdragon 805 mobiles and those
ones don't have 60 frames per second options that's great to see because the
hardware of course does support that you got your standard photo mode you have
your portrait mode and with the photo mode to you would have seen it we've got
x 1 x 2 so that all zoom in x 2 a digital zoom there and it's all
self-explanatory that is how you flip over then to the front-facing camera so
I'm gonna go out now get a few shots to give you some samples and some video
samples to from the front and rear cameras
so with front-facing video you get 1080p max no 4k option here but it does have
that gyro assisted electronic image stabilization this is really good a lot
of phones like this it's so great for anyone who does vlogging style videos
this can be used as a security backup camera here because it is that save you
can see so out of the sunlight here hard conditions as well cause for the phone
but it's doing a good job this is a Vita then the likes of the recent phones I
have been looking at shelby's Bibles and they're bent over
exposing a lot and of course they don't have this level of stability either so
good front camera video performance so this is the sample here of 4k 50 frames
per second we're limited to 10 minutes a lot of manufacturers set that is to stop
the phone from overheating now I do have recently shaky hands but because we do
have a combination of optical and electronic stabilization footage is very
steady it looks really good the audio quality I feel there is a little bit of
a room for improvement here hopefully they can fix that with an upcoming
updates but I will give you a demonstration of the stability just
walking ahead here you can see it is really quite good not bad at all and of
course we do have a 60 frames per second option as well
and fingerprint unlocking I have tested it it is very fast super quick just like
the previous models no issues were that ten out of ten times very quick little
size comparison here now so this is the 5.9 inch Hemi node five the Chinese
model this is the one plus six six point two eight inches and this one is six
point two one inches the show-me me eight and then we have the black shark
here at five point nine nine inches this has a front facing finger in reader so
is quite a bit longer than all of them they're about the same when it comes to
how tall they are the me eight and the one plus of course the roomie notifies a
little bit taller there but nothing compared to the beast n mammoth of my
workhorse me max - now the me max - of course is six point four inches so a
very large phone with your more traditional now 16 by 9 aspect ratio
there is also this gaming mode it's kind of hidden away it's under the advanced
settings and what it can do as well you can see all the options we've got so we
can block notifications when you're in the gaming mode you can add certain
games to it so that's gonna automatically go to the gaming mode and
the network boost so it's going to limit other applications background tasks and
things to try and reserve all that bandwidth for your gaming so you're
hopefully your ping rate in theory is gonna be a little bit better there okay
guys so quick recap here with my first impressions this may change later on
after using it for a couple of weeks before I release my full review of this
phone so it's looking really really good so far I like it more than my me eight
now that I've had for almost two days I like the implementation of their style
of knotch because it's a lot smaller than me eight has a very wide notch
that's it's a little bit ridiculous I'm not a fan of the notch as you know but
at least it's not so wide on this one here now the screen looks really good so
it's very bright it's an optical AMOLED panel deep blacks the blacks look a
little bit deeper as well than the me eight I think that's because of the
glass there as the reason so we still have the 3.5 millimeter headphone jack I
have to listen to some music on that later on in my full review process
battery life further benchmarks gaming and things like that will be included
the full and final review I have some camera comparisons coming up there's so
far really not a lot that I can really complain about I'm very nitpicky but
this is looking like a fantastic phone the operating system is very fast I like
that is kind of like a similar to a stock experience but with a lot more
tweaks and settings that you've got in there of the oxygen OS battery life of
course I have an update on there but the battery capacity I really wish they
could increase that somehow I don't mind if it was a millimeter thicker and it
had a four thousand or three thousand nine hundred three thousand eight
hundred then you know our battery would just be a little bit better there the
cameras do look like a step up from the Oneplus 5t is great they've gone with
optical image stabilizer station there too so as I mentioned camera comparisons
will be coming stay tuned for the channel for that and I do hope to catch
you back really soon with my next upcoming video bye for now