hello everyone i'm Dmitry with Hardware Canucks and the oneplus 5 is an
attractive device the price is less appealing versus the 3t but it's still
awesome to have such high capacity storage for a lot less and then we're
normally used to plus their approach to clean software is fantastic it doesn't
get better than this outside the pixel lineup the hardware is nothing to
complain about although the full utilization of that a gigabytes of RAM
is questionable but the phone feels incredibly fast the new curved body is
gorgeous the 1080p AMOLED screen is the perfect compromise between pixel density
and battery life and the dual camera is of course the main highlight here that
is good but there are a lot of asterisks that are sort of associated with all
these positive features so is the oneplus 5 for you let's break it down right
after this the Graham spectrum keyword bike Tesoro comes with a new mechanical
agile switch with low profile key caps with super fast response and shorter
actuation distance plus all the customization included with RGB lighting
and macros for a premium user now a few days ago I ran a Twitter poll to see how
you guys use your smart phones the most and surprisingly there were very few
clicks in the camera department so let's see how the oneplus 5 handles all other
aspects that people rely on so let's begin the experience with the body that
absolutely requires a skin or a case I love the original sandstone texture that
is grippy and that is needed not only for holding the Oneplus 5 but also picking
it up as the smooth curved edges have zero grip which is why I prefer the body
design of the oneplus 3 but everything else is pretty much identical with
clicky power and volume buttons although they are now much thinner but still have
very nice clicking the student the fingerprint scanner is incredibly fast
without minor vibrations for feedback the notification light is excellent on
the top left corner with colour customization available and the type C
port is at the bottom that is still a USB 2.0 interface I wish more Android
phones had the alert slider so you can quickly enable silent mode or
on the store mode and customized them a little bit so for example when I'm
taking a nap and I want to still receive phone calls for my favorites FedEx and
UPS I can still hear that phone call come through and not miss a package the
headphone jack at the bottom surprisingly is powerful enough to drive
my HD6XX so I'm very happy with the amp output and it absolutely kills the
iPhone 7 in volume the single speaker hover is way too easy to block it is
very loud in the cache call Youm it's too harsh so find yourself a bowl and
oneplus 5 turns into a
so now the screen it's received good praise because of calibration tools so I
prefer the srgb mode because it's just the most natural colors but if you like
a more saturated look we have the color customization and also a temperature
adjustment the resolution at 1080p is fine the brightness outdoors though it's
kind of weak so you know I always have to keep it at 100% even indoors to get
that nice vibrant and bright effect which so I wish that this screen was a
bit brighter however the minimum brightness is very
low which is good so you won't be blinding yourself or anyone around you
if you check your phone during the night but the blacks do tend towards the
purples so you know the color accuracy is not there anymore
at this lowest setting but really what got people riled up is the jelly effect
on the screen when you swipe up and this jelly effect is visible because the
screen on the oneplus 5 is mounted upside down and we're told that is to make room for
some other hardware components on the inside most likely for that dual camera
at the back so the jelly effect is only visible when you scroll up and I can
recreate the same jelly effect by flipping my oneplus 3
and you can see the jelly motion here as well that top portion or the bottom
portion of the screen has that little bit of stretch now I can recreate the
same effect with my galaxy s7 if I flip the screen around I think that's the
nature of the AMOLED screen and how the refresh cycle works and you know I can
sort of live with the jelly effect on the 1+5 what I cannot lift though is the
touch screen latency which on the oneplus 5 is just terrible now when I say
terrible I mean in relation to my experience with the iPhone 7 and the
galaxy s7 that have very little if any touch latency so everything on the
screen when you interact but it feels like it's one to one on one plus five on
the other hand that's not the case so it is very noticeable when I'm swiping and
I tap the screen for it to stop there's a delay between my tap and when the
screen actually stops at least it feels to me that way also when I'm typing with
both thumbs it feels like the text is trying to catch up to me so there's that
visual delay which is very annoying or when I'm holding long pressing the
delete button it always deletes more verses when I
lift off the some off the delete button they're just so annoying because it
creates that's weird contrast as this phone being praised one of the fastest
smartphones on the market right now but it has that weird
a sluggish feeling on the touchscreen latency situation so it's not ideal and
so that is my biggest complaint with the oneplus 5 alright so now let's talk about the
camera the selfie mode is wider than my iPhone
and the handles backlight better but the s7 despite its softer look is still my
favorite with direct light the iPhone has the most detail but I still prefer
the galaxy selfie so the oneplus 5 is in that middle with good field of view
exposure is fine and white balance most of the time is okay so now the dual lens
situation at the front is well implemented although it needs to be
clarified that it's not an optical 2x zoom it's actually 1.6 X optical zoom
and the rest is handled digitally in the software and so despite the high
resolution the fine detail is kind of missing and it looks too processed and
really kind of falls apart in dark setting as with any smartphone camera
you want to have the best lighting possible but I think the hyped optic
camera resolution and detailed so much like it's literally written on the side
of the box that I was kind of disappointed to not see the detail that
I was expecting the portrait mode is kind of cool and edge detection is
passable you can even do self-portraits which are really cool with this nice
background compression it doesn't work all the time and honestly I would have
taken a wider field of view for that second lens like on the g6 versus the
extra zoom and that is because just like on the iPhone 7 plus the second lens is
only engaged when there's enough light so actually most of the time even with
like good lighting in my studio I would cover up the zoom lens and take a shot
or actually see what the camera is looking at and it will still be using
the main lens with a 2x magnification and not the zoom lens so that's kind of
unfortunate I rather do that on a primary lens but have like a really nice
wide angle like on the g6 to capture a lot of the environment and stuff and I
think that would have been a much better direction for oneplus to take some other
important features to note include a reading mode so it turns everything into
grayscale with nice warm paper look I read books on Kindle so this is very
relevant to me you can also choose your vibration intensity and even pattern
though it is kind of weak at least nothing beats the iPhone vibration the
lockscreen has expanded a little bit to accommodate more room from the
education versus what we saw on the oneplus 3 and - charging remains the same it's
super fast never have to worry about battery life when plugging in and for
like 20 minutes gets you good recharge I also want to mention the flashlights on
the month plus five is pretty weak when compared to the iPhone 7 something to
keep in mind if you use the flashlight often and as of July 20th oneplus have
patched out the 911 rebooting bug when the phone would restart when try to
call 911 - services so that wasn't Pleasant
but they've patched out the software update and they released like 5 OTA
updates so far so that means they're kind of staying on top of things and
listening to what the community is figuring out in terms of the bugs and
the oneplus 5 so overall I'm pretty happy with the oneplus 5 but we're in a
difficult price territory where the device is kind of expensive to not have
any rubber seals or adhesive for water resistance 4k video is actually worse
versus the oneplus 3 because for some reason there is no
image stabilization on the oneplus 5 at 4k and from the value perspective the oneplus 3t
sounds like a better deal because even if you're after that 2x zoom in most
situations like I mentioned earlier you'll still be utilizing that main
camera for that 2x magnification unless you have the ideal ton of light in your
in your scene for that second lens to engage and so to the most part the oneplus 5
checks off many of those priority elements that people want to see but I
wish that the touch latency was reduced alongside have some water resistance
rating so that its feature set could be closer to all those flagships that a lot
more expensive while still maintaining that price advantage and that price
distance and so that's all I have to say about the oneplus 5 what do you guys think
are you picking one up yes or no let me know in the comments below and why don't
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