- Hi, I'm Parris and last week, Tuesday,
I was watching the live launch online
of the OnePlus 5 phone, their brand new model
and I got kinda caught up in the excitement of it
and I ordered one which arrived today.
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- I'm pretty good about not making impulse purchases
but electronics, that's my downfall
and unfortunately electronics
is one of the most expensive impulse purchases.
This is the basic model of the OnePlus 5.
It has six gigabytes of RAM and 64 gigabytes of storage
and it goes for $479.
Find out more about it at the link down below this video.
Now I had intended to buy the OnePlus 5 when it came out
but I was thinking later in the year
to replace my OnePlus 3, I love this phone,
but it fell and the corner has a number of cracks.
I said I'll just keep using this
until I replace it with the OnePlus 5
instead of spending the money to fix the screen on this
and the day this was announced
apparently I decided I had waited long enough.
So it's nice box, it's iPhone-ish in being white
and it's very soft-feel material.
That with their traditional pairing of colors for OnePlus.
It looks a lot like the OnePlus 3.
Now this is a silver backing, this one is gray
and if you order the high end phone
which is eight gigabytes of memory, 128 gigabytes of storage
it's I think midnight black on the back.
Before I start covering it in fingerprints
take a look at it here next to my OnePlus 3.
They look pretty similar.
Same sized screens, same bezel area,
same locations for the fingerprint sensor,
the flash, the camera, the speaker grill,
but there is something new on the back of the phone.
I'll show you that in a second.
I will be doing a separate video
with a more in-depth comparison
between the OnePlus 3 and the OnePlus 5
in case you're deciding whether it's worthwhile to upgrade.
Alright, time for fingerprints.
See what else is in the box.
A fast charger, looks really similar
to the one I have for my OnePlus 3.
Same red and white charging cable
with the USB type C connector.
Also included is a postcard from Iceland.
I guess they used the money I sent them to buy the phone
to take a nice trip.
Actually this is to show off the photographic capability
of the new camera in the OnePlus 5
which is something I'd heard a lot of good things about
before it went on sale,
but now that more people have gotten a hold of it
and reviewed it,
they're saying it's not quite as impressive
as it was made out to be
but supposedly it does a lot better job
than the camera on the OnePlus 3.
The phone feels like it's kinda glued into
this piece right here
but I think it's the rubber at the top and the bottom
it's just jammed into.
Unflapping this and pulling,
I think I've got the user manual.
It's the quick start guide and the safety information
and the SIM card popper
to pop out the SIM card tray.
See about loosening this phone from this.
Here we go.
Okay.
Feels a little different.
Here's the back of the OnePlus 5.
They certainly had a lot of writing to put on the back.
Underneath of this is my sticker with my IMEI numbers.
They felt it was very important to let you know
that the NFC sensor is up here at the very top
so if you use your phone to pay for things
you'll know to put this part of the phone
nearest to the NFC sensor in the store
when you're buying things.
They also mention pop the SIM card tray out
and put your SIM card in the tray
and put it back in.
Don't just stick the SIM card into the hole in the phone.
I guess people have been doing that.
And it also says don't try to take the back cover off.
That voids the warranty.
Some people probably do that trying to replace the battery.
I've been duly warned so lets remove all this.
Next to my OnePlus 3 maybe you can see what's new
on the back of the phone.
Yup, the camera has been moved up to the corner here
and there are now two lenses.
These are the only pages in the quick start guide
that are in English.
It does point out that it's a dual SIM phone.
You'll notice there's no place to pop out
a micro SD card because there is no expansion option.
Speaking of the SIM card tray and the power button,
they're still in the same position
as they were in the OnePlus 3
and on the opposite side
they've kept the notification slider,
one very unique thing on the OnePlus 5,
you can silence your phone with that switch
and the volume rocker below that.
Nothing going on here at the top of the phone.
On the bottom you've got microphone,
speaker, the USB type C charging and data transfer port,
and if you watched the live launch
it was pretty funny when they originally showed this
and they had Photoshopped out the headphone jack (chuckles)
and you could almost hear a gasp around the world
when people thought there was no headphone jack on it.
But then they took off the Photoshop edit
and said of course,
who would build a phone without a headphone jack?
Should be enough juice in it to start it up
and see what the screen looks like.
So let me get that going.
Hold the power button in, vibration,
that's looking the same.
The vibration sounded a little different
and I heard they changed the motor in it
to make the vibration stronger.
It's going through the same start up.
And now I'll have to go through the set up procedure,
I'm not ready to move my SIM card over
so I'll just go through it quickly
and let you see what the screen looks like.
There is a preinstalled screen protector.
I remember my OnePlus 3 came with that as well
and it was two days after I finally peeled it off,
that's when my phone fell and the screen cracked
so now I'm a little superstitious
and I don't think I'll take this one off.
This is the default background that came up.
Looks pretty nice.
Here's a screen that's mostly white
so you can compare the colors on white.
And the default screen for the camera.
You can swipe over to turn to video.
Now back here on photo
an interesting thing is right above the dot there
it says 1x.
Because this has two lenses,
one of them is a telephoto lens,
let's see what the other one offers us.
And that's what I understood.
There's a two times telephoto
so when I tapped on the 1x it changed to 2x
and it basically zoomed in.
Now it didn't really.
What it did is it switched to the other lens
which is set for the two times magnification.
There's at 1x and 2x and 1x.
With this, instead of zooming in
when you wanna take a picture of a flower
or even something in the distance,
you wanna try to make it look a little closer
and you pinch and zoom here
to make it look larger
and you take that picture
you're really just taking a subset of the picture
and using that to fill the screen
so there's no magnification going on.
It's all an illusion.
But with this the lenses are actually set up
in the second camera
so it does do, it's always set for that two X magnification
so everything should be much sharper
taking pictures that way.
And I'll be doing a separate video
dedicated to testing out just the camera on the phone.
Now swiping this way, away from video,
turns it into a portrait mode
which is set to automatically use depth of field
to blur out the background in the picture
so all the emphasis is on the person in the front.
The OnePlus 5 ships with Android version 7.1.1.
Here's how much of the 64 gigabytes
of onboard storage is being used.
Very small amount, just half a gigabyte.
But it doesn't say of 64 gigabytes
it says of 52 gigabytes
because a certain amount is reserved
for the Android operating system
and for the shell which OnePlus puts on top of that
to give you some extra features.
Kind of cool feature I found under advanced
is Gaming Do Not Disturb.
You can set particular apps that will trigger this feature,
games presumably,
and when it's enabled,
you won't have any pop ups,
you won't have any notifications,
things won't come through
to interfere with your gaming experience.
I've changed out to a different wallpaper.
Very nice, very crisp looking.
This is just an HD display.
I actually prefer this than the higher resolution displays
because they use battery faster.
And when I'm looking at a screen this size
a 4K or whatever else it is is lost on my eyes.
So I'll take battery life any day over a 4K screen.
Now the battery in the OnePlus 5
is actually the tiniest bit smaller capacity
than in the OnePlus 3
which was a little worrisome to hear
but because it has newer processor
and other things that they've done,
they say the battery will actually last
up to 20 percent longer.
I used to really be fixated on that.
I loved my ZTE ZMax 'cause it had a 4 thousand,
I think it was over,
a 4 thousand milliamp hour of battery in it.
That thing would last for days.
But I don't worry about it now
in phones that have the quick charge feature,
I think it's called dash charge with the OnePlus.
It charges up your phone.
If you have half an hour you can let the phone sit,
it'll charge it up over halfway.
So now I'm just sort of in the habit
around the middle of the afternoon
when I know I won't need my phone for a bit
I plug it in for even just 20 minutes,
and it bumps it up 30, 40 percent
and that gets me through the rest of the day.
So I count on being able to do that
and I don't fixate on having a much bigger battery
which is bigger than heavier all the time
when you're carrying your phone around.
Well I've got lots more to try out with my new OnePlus 5
and I will be doing videos
as I learn about those new features
and I'll do a couple comparing it to the OnePlus 3
in case this is your phone.
Is it going to be worth it to upgrade?
I'm glad I have this, I like it.
I like, I can just tell you holding both of them
this one curves around my fingers
and this one doesn't.
This one has that flat edge on all sides
which I noticed there's a point on the back too
it's missing a piece.
This one is solid.
It just feels nice.
But is it worth paying $479 for a feeling?
Well you'll have to decide that
but I'll be putting some videos up to help you decide.
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