Five or six months ago I reviewed the one plus five was a good mobile phone
and I was hoping that they would improve on some of the shortfalls of that
particular mobile and of course bring it out with the 1 + 5 T which I have here
to unbox and check out today so a little disappointed to see that they haven't
really focused on improving too much on this new model and it's such a short
lifespan of the 1 + 5 series because it's only 5 months ago we've already got
a new model so it's got the same chipset in there Snapdragon 835 with adreno 540
GPU 6 or 8 gigabytes of RAM 64 or 128 gigabytes of storage so the changes
which disappoint me because well they didn't add any IP rating to it they have
not added wireless charging and really the cameras are kind of the same so
we've got a 16 megapixels sensor as the main sensor then a secondary one which
is no longer optical anymore by the way none of those sensors has optical image
stabilization they did have optical zoom on the 5 but that's gone now for a low
light sensor so that one's dedicated to apparently helping out low-light I'll
find out soon when I test it out and also when you do the portrait mode 2 on
that now the screen is the major change here they've gone with the trend now
that's quite popular as the 18 by 9 aspect ratio so I'm not a big huge fan
of that I prefer 16 by 9 and they would just slim the bezels down more to me
would actually be a lot better but it does kind of look more modern with that
screen it's going to give you slightly slimmer bezels left and right and the
fingerprint reader of course can't fit on the front anymore so they have moved
it to the back of the phone they're now having a look at what we get in the box
the phone comes with a pre-applied screen protector there's one on the rear
just to protect it for transit so you just remove that anyway it does come
with this case now it's not these super high quality cases that you can buy
apart from this one but at least it's good that we do get one in the box got
the dash charger and the - charger cable now they have to be used in order to get
that super fast charging of approximately one hour I think it is one
hour and five minutes or so will fully charge this phone I mean it's super
super quick really fast but if you happen to leave this charger at home
then you can't charge it at that full rate even using a Qualcomm quick charge
it will take then about two hours so a lot slower we get a sim tool of course
we're gonna need that for the drill nano SIM tray that it has in there and then a
QuickStart guide so no changes here with the front-facing camera it is still 16
megapixels with an F 2.0 aperture you can shoot up to 1080p video with
electronic image stabilization fingerprint reader as I mentioned that
the start has now moved to the back of course they had to do that will deed
longer screen and then the same kind of camera setup but it's slightly different
because we've got 16 megapixel main camera and then a 20 megapixel secondary
camera that only handles low light and then the portrait effect now both of
these lenses they are f 1.7 aperture some tray on the right will take two
nano Sims so no changes here either so you can see our camera still protrudes
quite a bit there and on the left side we've got the alert slider now I wish
more phones had this is very handy to go from a general into a silent mode
without having to actually turn on the screen and go through your toggles so
it's nice and quick and easy there the volume button just below that that's
made out of metal it does not rattle or anything like that and it's a good
quality both of the buttons on this mobile are excellent and you can see we
do now have kind of rounded edges there on the front glass which makes it feel
nice in hand overall with that with the curved edges and the rear it's very
comfortable in hand this mobile on the bottom you'll find a 3.5 millimeter
headphone jack so that's a great choice there they did not remove that which
thumbs up to one plus for keeping this and then of course we have this single
one loudspeaker again this is another area of sleight and disappointment
that's kind of hoping that would have put dual loudspeakers on this mobile but
later on in the video it will test out the speaker and give you a sample of it
and finding along the top we have nothing so no IR transmitter here so I'm
not going to go through the whole lengthy process of setting this up it's
pretty obvious and straightforward but what I am going to quickly show you is
this right here which is the face unlock so Android 7 does have face unlocking
but apparently oneplus have tweaked this made it a little bit faster and more
secure so it is part of the setup just to run through this and of course I need
to get my face within the little blue line there you can see the
outline there but I'm currently shooting with my camera ok so that process
literally took about five or six seconds really fast now to quickly test and see
how fast it is now and unlocking with that face unlock so that is super quick
I just looked at it - in my head and that is almost instantaneous I don't
know how secure this is because it's just quickly testing and then when I was
aiming the camera down like I do it now I aim it down so it's not looking at my
face now and it unlocked but I think the camera only really caught a glimpse of
my nose and my chin so it still managed to unlock from that so I'm not too sure
how secure it really is now if you're not happy with that security you can of
course use that rare fingerprint reader which unlocks almost instantaneously it
is super quick fingerprint unlocking on this particular mobile so I'm using that
because I'm not really too sure if the face unlock is that secure so first
impressions of the screen it does look really nice now you can see that the
bezels either side we do have a substantial bezel there it's not like it
is bezel less and of course being an optical AMOLED panel we are going to see
some shifting colors depending on what angle but I don't know about you I look
at my screen face on I don't look at it at funny angles so that's not really
going to be an issue for me what might be an issue is screen burnin which
hopefully is not going to happen now you can see on camera we're getting these
funny like lines they're banding effect that's just on camera the screen to me
looks really really decent very good screen and if you're not happy with that
screen calibration then your course you can tweak it if you find it too vibrant
then you can just tone it down or even see it your own custom color preference
on the 64 gigabyte model that I have here we've got approximately 50 1.65
bigger bytes free storage so you really have to buy the model that suits your
needs if you need more storage then you've got to get of course 128 gigabyte
model because this does not have micro SD card support now there are a few
tweaks in here so gestures we do have double tap to wake you can also assign
gestures to launch various different applications so you can draw an o' to
launch the browser or something like that you can assign v4 the camera you
get the idea so whatever listen now to the
loudspeaker on the so I'm sad to see they didn't include
jeweled old speakers so they could have had a front-facing one like we see with
other models so it's an earpiece and it's also a loud speaker but the speaker
does sound pretty decent to me there's some bass in it so let's have a listen
to it now give you a sample
now just for reference here's the antutu school has so very solid as you'd expect
for six gigabytes of RAM and then the Snapdragon 835 now quick look at the
camera mode so here you can see we have times 1 and then 2 times zoom but that's
only digital zoom so don't be fooled it's not optical like the 1 plus 5 now
if we swipe up that will take us into the video mode so we get 4k video
capture maximum there is 1080p 60 frames per second and then swiping down will
then take us into the depth effect which is your bokeh your blurred background
your portrait mode so I've taken a few photos now and some video let's check
out these samples from the 1 plus 5t here's a sample now shot in 4k so we get
10 minutes as our limit on 4k recording so similar to other mobile phones the
image does crop in quite a bit that is because it's using electronic image
stabilization now as you'll see have a look at this I'm going to walk towards
the Town Hall here look at how steady that says this is really good do you
like what I'm seeing here with the video quality on the 1 + 5 t really great now
you will sometimes see some jarring some jerkiness in the video and that all
depends of course on your hand how quickly you pan around some movements
maybe the gyro that it has in there doesn't like the focus tends to work
pretty good it's continual autofocus with phase detection autofocus and the
audio quality as well I do like so I raw flagship performance 4k video from the 1
plus 5t here
sample now from the front-facing camera so you can shoot up to 1080p and it does
have electronic image stabilization just like the rear camera sort of smooth
things out now it has cropped them quite close I wish they had opted for a second
camera here as well so we could get on a wide angle or something like that but
overall quality seems quite good now I'm really struggling here not to drop this
mobile phone because my hands are cold and the back of it is so slippery it is
very very slippy this phone and really I do recommend using a case on this
shoulda brought it out with me because I'm almost about to drop this thing
which I don't want to do I need to review this first two as well
okay so first impressions overawed it's a solid phone it's well-made it's
premium really good build to it it has a decent screen on there it's really nice
but I just feel it's lacking I mean there's no reason whatsoever to go for
the 1 + 5 t if you own the 1 + 5 if you're coming from the 1 + 3 or the 1 +
3 T then maybe you've got a few reasons when it comes to for example the 18 by 9
aspect ratio screen if you must have that then that is perhaps one reason but
I just feel disappointed that they did not add an IP rating they didn't give us
dual loudspeakers not the fact that the mono speaker on there is actually quite
decent it's not bad at all camera performance looks good I'm
impressed with the stabilization on that 4k video so that electronic image
stabilization is really almost as good or just like the pixel - it looks really
really good it's almost at times like you're using a gimbal or it's on a
stabilizer resorts or a tripod but it isn't so the operating system is
probably one of the biggest pros of this it's really nice and clean it's super
fast I really do like the performance of it it charges super fast there's not a
lot to dislike about this phone it's just that that why didn't they give us
more I feel they could have done something else with the camera they
could have made what a a wide lens on there as the secondary camera they could
have perhaps but even a front-facing wide-angle camera on there - would have
been great they could have done so much more to entice 1+5 buyers to upgrade but
also every 5 or 6 months having a new phone is quite short I prefer just to
have a lifespan of one year like other manufacturers once a year get the new
models you go from the Samsung Galaxy s8 and into of course next year we're gonna
have the s9 but not every 6 months that just seems like a bit of a cash grab
there them having that turn around so quick of new models of course the 1 + 5
t is now the new model and the 5 is obsolete they don't even make it anymore
you can't get it anymore which is quite interesting that they've
done there too so there we go first impressions I will be back with my final
full review hopefully in about a week or two
and if anything changes then while I was sure to let you know but so far a very
solid phone great performance and around good phone just a little bit lacking
compared to other flagships