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It's time for an epic smartphone battle this is the Galaxy S8 versus the OnePlus 5
these are two incredible phones that bring a lot of specs and a lot of
performance to the market I put these two head-to-head and declare
a winner none of that cop-out whichever one is best for you there are a lot of
categories you could have picked from but I picked a seven that I think some
up the phone's the best we've got design screen software camera battery
performance and intangibles and we will declare a winner design is a huge
category when it comes to phone it's a big determining factor and you look to
buy most phones do the same stuff the design can separate one phone from
another let's start with the Galaxy s8 got a really nice metal frame a glass
back glass front curved on both sides it's almost all screens is infinity
display got an incredible 84 percent screen to body ratio and it is super
thin at 8 millimeters the elongated aspect ratio make its 5.8 inch screen
seem kind of approachable it's not as a giant behemoth as you would expect
fingerprint reader is located on the back and we will definitely talk about
that despite looking and feeling really nice does have a bit of a fragile feel
to it maybe I'm a little bit biased admittedly there because I have dropped
and cracked a galaxy s 8 plus when it comes to design
Samsung get this one out of the park so I mentioned how thin the Galaxy s8 was
this thing is even thinner at 7.2 two millimeters which is an
engineering marvel when you consider the incredible specs that are packed in here
I've got a 5.5 inch screen with a screen to body ratio of about 73 or 74 ish %
oneplus is said they wanted to do sort of an infinity edge so I didn't have the
resources to do it as I go through and do this versus oneplus is a smaller
company going head-to-head toe-to-toe against one of the behemoths of the
industry and they did an awesome job I like the rounded edges on the back and
eyes aluminum so really good it kind of has a feel of an old-school HTC phone
and a modern-day iPhone a huge compliment to oneplus got a pretty
pronounced fingerprint reader on the front which I'll talk more about but is
crazy fast it looks really nice and there's no design slouch and so it's
going up against anybody else it might have a chance when it comes to pure
design the Galaxy s8 is the clear winner so next let's talk about screen this is
what you are looking at all the time if the screen sucks your phone experience
they're going to suck no matter what expect let's start with the s8 the cue
HD screen so it's 2960 by 1440 resolution is not the whole story here
so don't think it's over because this packs more pixels than the full HD
screen on the oneplus 5 pictures video games when the phone is a static it's
like there's a sticker on it the best way I can describe it it doesn't even
look real more use the phone more I can appreciate
the incredibleness of the screen things can look and a little bit
saturated I've gotten used to it and I kind of like it that is going to be a
personal preference but oneplus 5 is a really nice job with this display so
it's full HD it's 1920 by 1080 it's an optic AMOLED panel which is really solid
the 401 PPI it's an evolution of the 3T's display but does give a lot of
customization options support things like srgb DCI p3 a one caveat I want to
mention here is if VR is important to you the low resolution is not really
going to lend itself to any sort of VR experience so the full HD panel on the OnePlus 5is good and it skims even say it's great perhaps not as good and not
as great as the best in the industry the Galaxy S8 same issue we ran into
talking about design the Galaxy s8 takes a category before you start screaming
and yelling at me in the comments let's go into the next category in that
software Samsung TouchWiz is used to be the biggest knock on what used to be
pretty awesome hardware it was bloated it was cartoony and made the phone slow
but since the Galaxy s6 Samsung I think it turned a pretty big corner as of this
filming it's based on Android 7.0 and it's surprisingly solid actually prefer
to use this versus what I usually use a Nova Launcher on most other Android
devices to give it a gives you a clean kind of Nexus style launcher which I
appreciate they've downplayed the cartoony aspects
of this a lot and they've done a lot of nice UI tweaks you're definitely not
going to mistake this UI for stock Android but just look and perform well
on its TouchWiz that aspect of TouchWiz gets you away from Samsung in the past
definitely worth looking at oh what's software on oneplus I was a huge fan of
cyanogen when oneplus first launched I shed a nerd tear when
they ditched it I went for own OxygenOS which was a little bit half-baked when
it first launched but much like touchwiz OxygenOS is really coming to its
own the OnePlus 5 atleast as of shipping based on android 7.1.1 so almost the most
recent version of android and it looks and feels like stock with a ton of
customization you can choose to the advantage of or just sort of leave it
and get a really nice really close the stock Android experience if you decide
to dig into the settings you're going to find a lot of really cool options to
make this phone your own things like a reading mode night mode gestures
launcher settings this might even be a more complete OS and you can Android
itself oneplus hasn't always been the best with updates so bear that in mind
but this has a stock feel and it kind of seems like a hybrid between Nova and
just naked nude Android and for me that is a winning combination I love what
oneplus did oxygen OS this is a clear winner for the OnePlus 5 all right so let's
jump in and talk about camera this could probably be a 13 to 45 minute video on
its own but I tried to hit the highlights a little cliche but the best
camera is the one you have with you and chances are you're gonna have your phone
with you so camera is a big determining factor in which phone people buy the
galaxy s8 I think it's a big omission from Samsung not putting a dual sensor
setup on the back of the phone a lot of the competition has including the
oneplus 5 that doesn't hold a 12 megapixel sensor back too much pictures
are awesome in normal light I think this shines in low light so it's
clean high ISO and processing the low light shots looks surprisingly good but
the less like that's there the more artifact you're going to have that's not
unique to the Samsung on it's kind of true with any camera but really good in
low-light photos are a little bit warm and kind of contrast yet that's personal
preference they make colors look a bit brighter
I like it you may not also oh is is a huge help on the video side and also
aids to those low-light shots and if you want to get in save photos as raw
when it comes to camera on the oneplus 5 this is really what they're selling it
can blaze into two separate times on the box they want you to know this is an
incredible camera and it definitely is it's got two sensors the usual setup you
see with those dual sensors got a wide angle and a telephoto and I
couldn't mention at this point they pretty much just ate the iPhones camera
UI which they did but the good UI and it works well here and just realize impact
the camera fidelity for the longer focal length in distant portrait mode is nice
to have but the portrait images look crazy artifact II does not look real at
all you don't get that natural bokeh effect I think they're trying to go for I
imagine it can be fixed with software but if you want this for portrait mode I would not
rely on this for it at least as of shipping solo like shot suits are
important to me did not come out as well on the OnePlus 5 maybe there's a lack of ois
is that really impacts the pictures got a smaller 1.12 micron pixels in
here as well the things just looked artifacting grainy and not nearly as
clear this one was kind of a tough one for me to call like you add a
flexibility of the wide-angle and telephoto by myself taking a lot of
low-light pictures though and again as a dad that's where a lot of my photos are
taken think which is my kid sleeping image in Italy is a little bit creepy
but I really like to have a camera that's good in low-light the addition of
OIS on the galaxy s8 and a little bit of a better front-facing camera as well
I mean this round is surprisingly going to go to Samsung your phone's only going
to be as good to you as long as it's working the battery life is I think it's
an important category as well the Galaxy s8 has a 3000 milliamp hour battery
which is good but not great we recharge me a wireless charging or quick charge
and generally in my usage which is surprisingly heavy by end of the day I'm
around 25 to 30% now your usage is going to vary but I'm pretty tough on my phone
there's a lot of YouTube watching and there's a lot of social media a lot of
pictures being taken a lot of things running in the background which is
pretty impressive considering the amount of pixels thing is pushing and the
processor that is going along with this a battery expect to be a huge difference
on the oneplus 5 that's got to be the trade-off for having a 1080p screen
a little bit of a bigger battery so it's got that going for it at 3300 milliamp
hours and it was better than the Galaxy s8 but not by giant leaps and bounds
it's about 10 percent better than what I got on the Galaxy s8 so 35 to 45 percent
I probably could have pushed that a little bit more and gone for
almost two days of battery usage generally I got my display set about 50% I think
that is where the oneplus 5 tends to shine if battery is going to be important to
you there may be better battery savings phones out there but if you want a phone
it's going to last a lot longer than the competition at least so oneplus 5
did a really nice job with that you got to decide if that trade-off is worth it
do you want the extra pixels of a Galaxy s8 or another flagship phone you want a
really solid screen with the admittedly better battery life
the oneplus 5 offers battery life was very clear winner here going back to the
one part so this category I've added from our last verses performance I
generally don't do this because every phone now it tends to feel fast it's
hard to find a phone that feels slow and the Galaxy s8 certainly does not feel
slow Snapdragon 835 eight gigs of ram almost up-to-date version of Android is
an incredibly fast phone there's still a few things that slow it down that bother
me like I try and search for a stick allow for the keyboard to pop up but
overall it is a very fast experience whether I'm playing games or browsing
the web or scrolling pretty rarely do I notice and you slow down and then on the
OnePlus 5 the version we have is packing and insane 8 gigabytes of RAM I get the RAM
it's different than your laptop but let that sink in a lot of computers out
there I'd wager don't have 8 gigabytes of RAM in them it is an insane amount to
pack into a phone I'm not even sure Android take advantage of the full
amount of RAM all of that couple of the Snapdragon 835 you've got a recipe for
it incredibly fast phone and it is in fact I noticed how zippy it was and
perhaps maybe with psychosomatic joiners 8 gigabytes of RAM in here but
everything on this phone just felt that even that same thing that bogged down
surprisingly the galaxy S8 trying to pull the keyboard searching for an
app seemed fast it might be attributed to oxygen OS vs TouchWiz I don't
know but everything felt quick zippy and in other words like used to describe
fastness felt that on the oneplus 5 so if you're keeping track at home we are all
tied up 3 to 3 heading into the last category and that is intangible than
both these phones bring a ton of in tangibility to the table on the estate
side you've got things like wireless charging iris scanning Fisher
recognition a headphone jack Samsung pay absolute killer screen expandable
storage and you can buy it on all four carriers on the oneplus 5 side
you've got just insane performance you've got - charging way better value
for the price if you're not buying ideal on the galaxy s8 and there are a lot of
deals to be had on those phones got better audio headphone jack as well it's
got more band support and it is dual SIM for me though wireless charging is a big
one for me waterproofing also someone who's dropped their phone and water the
big one to have this is a tough one to call but intangibles for me go to the
Galaxy s8 so we've got a winner by four to three the Galaxy s8 takes this crown
this is a big testament though to OnePlus for phone that is at least full retail price
about two hundred dollars less to compete with a flagship from Samsung one
of the largest manufacturers in the world damn impressive what oneplus has
done they didn't build a perfect phone they built a really good phone I would
have loved things like waterproofing and a high-resolution display but those
things drive the price up oneplus is trying to find a nice value price versus
performance and they struck a really nice balance I love doing use versus
videos let me know down below which verses you want to see come up next our
last time we did was the Galaxy s8 versus the iPhone 7 if you want to check
that out you guys agree with me am i way off base leave in the comments and let
me know I want to hear from you we'll have the whole discussion about it until
next time I'm Jon Retinger from TechnoBuffalo
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