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Last time we talked about the OnePlus 6T,
I covered the nitty gritty tech geek stuff.
We talked notches, headphone jacks,
and, of course, specs.
And while that's important to the people
who've traditionally bought OnePlus phones,
almost a month after first unboxing the 6T,
I wanna look at it from the perspective of,
oh, there's no such thing as the average consumer,
but people walking into T-Mobile stores
and wondering whether it's worth the hype.
I'm Micheal Fisher and this is the MrMobile Review.
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In my First Look video, I made the point
that there are excellent, arguably better phones available
for close to the 6T's price and that's still true.
The Samsung Galaxy S9 will give you a better camera
and the LG G7 will give you better audio
and they'll both give you a headphone jack
and wireless charging, among other things.
But, when my family and friends inevitably ask me
over the holidays what phone I can recommend,
one of the first phones out of my mouth
will definitely still be the OnePlus 6T.
A big part of that is because in my opinion,
it ships with the best version of Android you can get.
Notice I didn't just say newest.
I mean, you can find the newest version of Android
on the Google Pixel Three, but thanks to some
questionable decisions Google made
with regard to the user interface,
it's, at times, a confusing mess.
Now, for $250 less than the Pixel Three,
you get the same version of Android,
but with an interface that you can customize
right out of the box.
So, it feels right for you.
The OnePlus 6T is also the only phone I've used,
with the possible exception of the Razer Phone Two,
that feels faster than the Pixel.
Normally, I reference the Trek, but
let's go Wars on this one.
If this were a rebel Star Fighter,
it'd be an A-Wing.
In the past, I've ragged on OnePlus for dumping
ridiculous specs into a phone just to impress the fanboys.
The 6T uses those specs smartly.
Over time, the phone learns which apps you use most often
and it uses those gobs of random access memory
to keep some of those apps preloaded.
Now, what I found over the past few weeks
is that I don't need to wait as long
for some of those apps to open
and the ones that do have to reload,
well, they do it really fast
and it's likely to be updated more often
than the older Samsung and certainly the LG.
OnePlus has promised two years of Android updates
for all phones going forward
and based on what I'm seeing from my devices,
and on various forums, it's doing a better job
than most companies in this regard.
Now, if updates are your top priority,
well, Google still gives you three years of them
with the Pixel line and Apple goes even longer
with the iPhone.
So, OnePlus is not in first place here.
If you've watched my videos for a bit,
you know I'm a huge fan of wireless charging.
So, I consider any phone with a glass back,
but no wireless charging to be a big letdown.
That said, it's easier to forgive
when you rarely need to charge the thing.
Even after weeks of use, it's a rare thing
for me to get the 6T below 50% before bedtime
and I'm talkin' 14 to 16 hours days.
One of 'em was really heavy.
I had several video calls for work
and also a five hour voice call over WiFi
catching up with an old high school friend.
The end of that day, I still had more than 20% left.
And when you consider the fast charger
included in the box alongside a complementary case,
you're getting a lot more value than,
for example, Apple, with its slow charger in the box
and nothing else.
Now, let's switch gears to talk about the big stumble.
No, not the headphone jack.
I already talked about that in the first video.
I'm talking about the in-display fingerprint sensor.
I loved it when I first fired it up
and its futuristic appeal in undeniable.
But, look, it's hard to praise something
that just doesn't work a lot of the time.
If your fingers are wet or they're cold
or they're shriveled from being wet
or you're trying to scan it at an odd angle
or it's just in a mood, it's almost guaranteed to fail.
Now, it probably works four times out of five
and, yeah, sure, you might say that's great,
but the more traditional design on the OnePlus Six
was a 19 times out of 20 success rate for me.
So, this is a miss and, for me,
it's the most disappointing part of the phone.
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Okay, camera.
The 6T's output is not all that different
from the OnePlus Six, which is a good thing.
I took the OnePlus Six out to the desert
on a vacation earlier this year
and as you'll see if you go back and watch that review,
it really impressed me.
The focus hunting problem I called out in that video
has been fixed, I'm happy to say.
And, again, OnePlus leverages the full power
of the components it's packed in here.
You can shoot at up to 60 frames a second in 4K mode
and up to 480 FPS if you step down to HD in slow motion.
And, you've got the new night mode for still shots
if you really need to pour the light on.
For what it's worth, though, most of the time
I left that night mode off and I got a lot of great photos,
like these.
Going back and realizing I shot them with the OnePlus,
I mean, it's pretty impressive.
It has its quirks.
It likes to overexpose, which is something you see
on a lot of phones.
It also seems especially prone to lens flare.
No, those are not UFOs in the sky
over the Schraffts building.
And if you're trying to photograph a kid
or a dog or something else that wiggles a lot,
you'll get a lot of blurry takes
before you end up with a winner.
Other than that, though, this camera is more than
most folks will need.
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I wanna close with a peek behind the curtain.
I was planning on holding this video
for a bit because I have other devices on my desk
that have been waiting longer for reviews,
but this one excites me.
There's more I can complain about,
the mushy vibration motor, the lack of a notification light,
the poorly placed speaker, but, well,
let's use a car analogy.
If this were an automobile, those would be
the heated steering wheel and the extra cup holders
in the back seat.
They're options.
And, if you ask me, they're worth giving up
when you're paying $200 less than the nearest new iPhone,
$250 less than the nearest new Pixel.
The 6T is not the first geek phone
that might matter to the mainstream,
but now that it's available on two US carriers,
it is the first one that might have a shot
putting pressure on better known manufacturers
to maybe think about knocking it off
with the thousand dollar price tags.
OnePlus owners new and old, sound off in the comments
with your experience, good or bad.
And, feel free to fill in the gaps
that I left open in this review.
Do be sure to hit that OnePlus 6T
hands on video first, though.
I touched on a lot of things there
I left aside in this video and if you missed it,
be sure you don't miss the next one.
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Until next time, thanks for watching
and stay mobile, my friends.