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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

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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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