This is the One Plus 5T, it's a smartphone that i've been using for the past couple of months, and
I'm only just getting to the review now
But, I've got to say
This is an amazing smartphone for its price
Especially considering it's about half the cost of a new Samsung Galaxy
And the camera is amazing
Hence why I trusted it with capturing the special moments from when my son was born
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First to get this out of the way, Gearbest did send me the OnePlus 5T to review
However they didn't give me any money and thoughts and opinions are definitely my own
So one of the main selling points that I can see with this phone here is its camera quality so I'm gonna start it off right there
It's got a 16 megapixel front-facing camera for selfies
And it's got a 21 megapixel rear as well as an extra 16 megapixel rear
Just for low-light
Not that whole Joule camera blurriness thing
And just to show you how good the quality of this camera is
Here's a photo of me. Just moments after my son was born
Now, the quality is crisp, it's clear and just everything in this photo just came off really really nice looking
When it comes to video this actually takes 4k footage, so
I did a couple of 4k footage tests down on the beach
I didn't lock the exposure in so just be aware of that, it's gonna go a little bit different in color, but you can see here
Or if you want to see it in its 4k glory, I've got a link up above at the moment
Where you can check it out as a 4k file
But this is beautiful like it's recording the sea as it comes crashing in
And it just sounds and looks amazing
So for me alone
The camera quality on this phone was definitely worth the roughly, $500 price tag
In US Dollars. I should say
So with that little gush out of the way just because, again, I love the quality of this camera
Let's have a look at the specs and I'll give you a little bit of an idea of what else this phone is
In terms of specs and what else that can actually do in terms of gaming and so forth
So in here is the Snapdragon 835 processor
Which is an 8 core 2.45 gigahertz processor
It's got the Adreno 540 GPU inside, so quite a powerful GPU
Built into it is 64 gigabytes of storage
And six gigabytes of DDR4 memory
So that's quite important that it's DDR4 by the way
Next up we've got Bluetooth 5.0 so it's the latest version in there as well as five gigahertz Wi-Fi, so
This should offer higher Wi-Fi speeds
Now it's got the headphone jack inbuilt which is great. So you don't need an adapter there. It's got USB C
So it's the latest version of USB there
The one thing that it doesn't have though is
Expansion for a micro SD card
So, if you are looking to expand that 64 gigabytes of storage, unfortunately you're not gonna be able to do it
With a micro SD card
You could probably do it through the USB C port though with an adapter
Now when this first came out it was at Android 7.1.1.
However, since the release of this phone it has actually been upgraded to Android 8
On another thing too, if you do happen to order the Chinese version, which is
H2O instead of the OxygenOS
Then there is a way that you can actually upgrade
This to the US version
So if you want to know how to do that leave me a comment down below and I can create a tutorial around it
Oh, one other thing that this has got as well as NFC so for those people out there that
Use NFC with their bank cards and so forth and this is a great phone for that
So out of the box this phone isn't rooted, however, there is a community out there that can offer you help with that, but again
It's a little bit tricky and could void your warranty so just be
A little bit careful there rooting your OnePlus 5T
The inbuilt battery is 3300 milliamp hours
So, not too bad
And next onto the screen quality, now, the screen is a 2160 by 1080p
AMOLED display at 6.01 inches and the quality of the screen is pretty top-notch in my opinion
Okay, so with all that out of the way let's have a look at some benchmarks, and we'll start off with storage and RAM to start with
So that's using the A1SD Bench tool. Now the internal read speed we're getting 431 megabytes per second here
On the internal write speed however
We're getting 213 megabytes per second.
Still not too bad in terms of speed
When it comes to the speed of the RAM however, we are getting some pretty good results here. We're getting 6997 megabytes per second
And of course we can't test the SD card speed because there's no way to put an SD card inside this one unfortunately
Next up we've got the Wi-Fi speed with speed test
We're getting 173 megabits per second down and on the upload we're getting 73 megabits per second
So that's pretty decent.
It's pretty much the max speed that my connection is so not too bad there
Next up we've got AnTuTu
Now on the overall score, we're getting a score of
174672
We're getting a 3d score of 68980
We're getting a UX score of 56460
We're getting a CPU score of 39076
And lastly we're getting a RAM score of 10156
Some pretty impressive speeds there
Okay, so the next one we're gonna do is do the Geekbench test, which tests out the CPU and how it performs on single and multi cores
So on the single core score we're getting 1973
And on the multi-core score we're getting 6647
Next up we're gonna test out the GPU capabilities with 3dmark
And in the Slingshot test we're getting a score of 4193
But in Slingshot Extreme we're getting a score of 3430
Next up we've got Ice Storm, and here we're getting a score of 14580
And in Ice Storm extreme we're getting a score of 14318
Pretty decent results
When it comes to streaming the two most popular Streaming apps out there are Netflix and YouTube and with YouTube we're getting full 1080p resolution here
What's the point of going 4k when it's only a 1080p screen
And Netflix works straight out of the box, so, no issues there at all
So the last thing that I like to do here after all those other benchmarks is I like to test out the gaming on this
Now, normal Android gaming on the OnePlus 5T is going to be fine, it's going to smash anything that you put in it
But when it comes to emulation
Some titles will not work well
Apparently, but we'll have a look at the test and
You'll see what I mean
Because to be honest the the power of this phone is pretty much gonna smash most things that you throw at it
So the first emulator that I've got here is PPSSPP
Which is the Playstation Portable emulator for Android
And the first game up is Powerstone
A one-on-one brawler, and you can see here that it's getting a full 60 frames per second, which is awesome
And next up is the notorious God of War and on a lot of devices this just does not like playing fair, so
but with the OnePlus 5T
We're getting between 50, 55 to 60 frames per second, So
This is what I would call more than playable
So the power of this system on a chip inside this phone is amazing
Next up we've got the Raycast emulator, which is the Dreamcast emulator for Android and the first game up is Sonic Adventure 2
And based on the results that we just got with the PlayStation Portable Emulator this one smashes it again at 60 frames per second
The cult classic Shenmue is up next and that's getting a full 30 frames per second here
Shenmue 3 is on the way, so hopefully at the end of this year we might see something there
And lastly Soul Calibur
Now the graphical glitches that you see here is actually part of the emulation so it's not to do with the phone at all
And even with that we're getting 60 frames per second, so, really great
And lastly even though we know it's going to smash it is the PlayStation emulation, and this is using FPSe
And the first game off the ranks is Final Fantasy 7 and of course we're getting 60 frames per second
After that Metal Gear Solid, again, 60 frames per second
And lastly Tekken 3, which can be a problem on some devices but
Smashes it at 60 frames per second
So all in all OnePlus 5T is a very capable emulation device
As well as an all-rounder
With the camera that it's got in here
If you're looking for something that is going to take great photos when you're out traveling or when you're out and about
With the kids or whatever those memories that you really want to keep then I can highly recommend
This phone for its camera alone
So is it worth the $500 price tag that is US dollars I should say
That this phone has
In all honesty I've got to say yes
With the iPhones that are coming out now that are between a $1000 and $500
The Samsung Galaxys that are you know right up there in $1000 price range as well
This phone coming in at $500 is more than capable
And the main thing people use their phones for is either gaming on the go or
With the camera and this has both
So if you're sitting on the fence, I've got to say this is an awesome phone for $500
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