**Unboxing and First Impressions: A Nerds Paradise**

As I unwrapped the device, I was excited to see how it compared to my trusty Galaxy S8 plus. The phone's design is sleek and premium, with a metallic body that feels solid in the hand. The camera on this device is one of its standout features, boasting an impressive array of options and settings. I have everything set up just how I want it, from the flash and auto settings to the HDR setting and timer.

The camera app itself is intuitive, with easy access to various modes such as photo, video, portrait, and panorama. The Pro Photo mode is a nice touch, offering manual controls for exposure, white balance, and more. I'm also happy to see the option for raw images, which will be a game-changer for serious photographers. Speaking of photography, I've tried out the depth effect feature, which works surprisingly well most of the time – although it can make some strange choices and blur out unwanted elements.

One thing that caught my attention is the number of settings available in this camera app. It's clear that developers have taken a page from the Google Pixel playbook when it comes to offering a wealth of options for photographers. From shutter speed control to exposure compensation, there's no shortage of ways to tweak your shots. The histogram and metering tools are also welcome additions, helping to ensure that your images are well-balanced.

But camera features aren't the only game in town – this phone also boasts an impressive array of other settings and options. The shade menu is a particular highlight, with options such as reading mode (which automatically adjusts screen color temperature based on ambient light conditions) and automatic notifications for certain apps. I've always loved the toggle switch that allows me to quickly turn off Do Not Disturb mode, and the option to customize my buttons is also a nice touch.

The on-screen navigation system can be changed to suit your preferences, and you have the option to use capacitive or manual controls. The gaming feature – which includes a special Do Not Disturb mode for when you're running benchmarks – was surprisingly useful in one instance. Overall, I'm thoroughly impressed with the depth of customization available on this phone.

**Customization Options**

One of my favorite features is the ability to add custom icons, which can be a real game-changer for those who like to personalize their home screens. The Sketchy Icons feature allows you to create your own custom icons, which can be used to replace the standard ones that come with the phone.

Underneath the shade menu, I found another useful option: reading mode. This feature automatically makes everything in grayscale and adjusts screen color temperature based on ambient light conditions – a great way to reduce eye strain when reading for extended periods. You also have the option to turn this feature on automatically for specific apps, such as Kindle. And if you prefer, you can simply toggle it on or off at will.

The toggle switch that controls Do Not Disturb mode is another highlight – it's incredibly easy to use and allows you to quickly silence notifications without having to navigate through menus. I've also appreciated the option to customize my buttons, which allows me to swap out standard controls for custom ones. The gaming feature is also a nice touch, as it provides a convenient way to ignore distractions while running benchmarks.

**Performance and Features**

One thing that's clear from using this phone is its emphasis on performance – and by extension, raw power. With up to 12GB of RAM and a fast Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 chip, this device can handle even the most demanding tasks with ease. Whether you're running multiple apps at once or trying out graphics-intensive games, this phone delivers.

But what really sets it apart from other devices in its class is its focus on flexibility and customization. Where the S8 plus feels like a more rigid, Samsung-centric experience – with features that are tightly integrated into the ecosystem – this phone feels more free-form. You can use it however you want, without having to worry about compatibility or integration issues.

Of course, there's still room for improvement – particularly when it comes to software support and updates. The lack of a headphone jack is also a disappointment, although I'm told that developers are already working on custom ROMs that can address this issue.

**Conclusion**

Overall, I'm thoroughly impressed with this phone – and I think it's going to be a hit with serious tech enthusiasts. With its impressive array of camera features, customization options, and performance capabilities, it feels like the perfect device for those who want control over their smartphone experience. While there are certainly some areas where it falls short (such as software support and updates), I believe that this phone's strengths outweigh its weaknesses – especially when compared to more mainstream devices like the Galaxy S8 plus.

So if you're in the market for a new phone that offers a high level of customization and flexibility, I'd definitely recommend giving this device a look. And even if it's not perfect – as it's unlikely to be – I'm confident that its strengths will make up for its weaknesses.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey everybody this is Erica the technology nerd likes to film stuff and right here I have the hugest box possible from One Plus thank you one plus I don't know where I'm going to put this and I could probably fit inside it but I believe this is the OnePlus 5 Okay so we've got this little cloth bag here which I'm sure is protecting the inner bag it's a backpack and I'm a fan of backpacks really big fan of backpacks I don't like purses but I do like backpacks ah so this is a OnePlus travel backpack very very nice okay so I'm guessing the box is probably in here go ahead and open it up yep and I was right here we go so this looks like a Media Kit of some kind ready oh yeah that's nice so opening it up let's see what do we got so it looks like we've got a reviewer's guide right here dual camera cleaner photos now I've been hearing a lot of opinions surrounding the release of this phone a lot of people are pretty happy with the specs where other people are just not so happy especially when it came to marketing yada yada I don't want to jump on the hype train I just like looking at a phone for what it is so let's keep it that way shall we so it looks like we've got a compartment with lots of cases here now I've actually always really liked liked the little cases that OnePlus makes a lot of you guys know that I am not a fan of cases and if I am going to use a case it better be as minimalistic as possible and that's kind of what these are they're just like shells they're not really protective or anything so we've got four different cases right here we've got an ebony we've got a Rosewood sandstone and a carbon like a carbon fiber looking case and then this is the compartments I'm sure for the phone and yes it is all right how do I sure this convenient little hole is for my finger indeed it is oh my goodness I have no room to put this and the phone itself so this is the a5000 this is the midnight black 128 gbt with 8 gbt of ram that's a lot of RAM is this phone actually going to be able to utilize all that Ram I don't know yet I am hoping though with this spec set the Snapdragon 835 that this is a nice and smooth phone here is my Galaxy S8 plus and and I have affectionately named it Mr Jank I like this phone a lot but it's not the smoothest hey what are you doing I have an intruder he's in the way as always would you just stay okay so let's go ahead and open the box ripping off all the plastic now okay now here we go very slowly for effect opening the box and you do indeed see it saying dual camera clearer photos everywhere and I haven't been hearing the best things about the camera so far now I would hope that just with some updates that things would change so I don't want to judge the camera too heavily right now upon first release so here we got the phone let's go ahead and just take this plastic off take off my little Cal number and right out of the box it has a screen protector on it that's nice I'm going to rip that off right away I don't care for screen protectors don't like them don't want it bye-bye is it oleophobic underneath yes it is you see I've made that mistake of ripping off a screen protector and then realized oh there's there's no alhob coating underneath not not good not a good deal so the first thing that people say is oh it looks like an iPhone and I pick it up and I'm like okay I mean maybe a little bit with the way that that dual camera sensor is on the front but it's got this curve to it that the iPhone doesn't have so it doesn't immediately step out to me as iPhone actually one thing that does immediately step out to me as iPhone x though is the way that they have this plastic for the antenna band same thing for the bottom too so here is my product red iPhone and you can see it right next to the OnePlus 5 and really I think that the iPhone is kind of more bulky and less graceful looking than the slope that we have here on the OnePlus 5 but really each to his own if it looks to iPhone x to you that's just fine it does feel pretty thin and also light in the hand but it does have a substantial weight and feel to it and we do have a headphone jack there at the bottom so that's a definite plus what else is in the box so let's go ahead and lift this up it looks like we've got the standard Fair of documentation and things in here looks like we have a quick start guide and also the Sim ejection tool there and a very nice shot that was taken with the OnePlus 5 in Iceland nonetheless all right let's take that out and it's the letter that we usually see from Carl pay then we've got the cable for the dash charger and I have really loved the dash charger that is seriously the fastest charging that I have seen I also have the dash charger for the car already so that's going to be nice when using this so that is all that is in the box so now before we move on I'd like to take a second to thank last pass for partnering with me to make this video possible so in this digital 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their services work across all of your devices put your p passwords on autopilot with last pass check out the link in the description if you want to try them out they are free so here we are several days later I figured I would spend as much time with this phone as I could over the weekend so that I could get as an informative review out as possible for you all so I could let you know what I think if I need to create an after the buzz type review later on after we get a lot of updates then I will do so so the first thing I want to say to you guys is the more I use this the less it reminds me of an iPhone yes we do have a very similar sensor placement and all this right here is placed very similarly but it just doesn't feel anything like it and I was telling you guys that earlier especially once you slap one of these cases on it it really looks and feels nothing like an iPhone so if that is part of your apprehension don't let it be which reminds me I do want to show you all of these cases that we have here now that they are out of their boxes I was saying that none of them are very protective While most of them are indeed shells we actually have one that's more like a case this is the carbon one and you can see it's got little covers for the button cutouts as well the only thing is that when I do this it just kind of looks cheap and feels cheap to me I don't like the way that this lip looks it reminds me very much so now of the Nexus 5 so if you guys are wanting to preserve the beautiful look of the phone I would get the Sandstone one it's definitely less slippery this way plus the OnePlus One and OnePlus 2 came with this cover by default then we've also got the Rosewood option and I forget what this last one is called although I think this is probably my favorite wood option I think it looks premium and unique just liit this one on right there there you go and it doesn't look too bad I just happened to not like the wood grain look of this particular case so overall you could probably call this device inspired by the iPhone but with adding cases to it and just using it in day-to-day it really doesn't look or feel like it to me I do have to admit though when looking at the back I love the way that this looks feels although it's really slippery but the front does look quite a bit dated I'm not sure what it is I think it's more or less this huge fingerprint sensor that we have down here right here I do have all the other OnePlus devices if you want to have a little bit of a comparison to see what this looks like let's wipe this down it does get finger printy quite quickly but wipes off nice and quickly as well thankfully so here we have it next to the OnePlus One this was very well-loved got sunscreen all over it so it's oily looking OnePlus 2 that's where we started getting this USB type-c connector at the bottom then OnePlus 3 and this was my overall favorite phone of all of them that they've made and probably one of my most favorite devices of all time I really loved this light gold color and I liked the shade of white that they chose for the front as well it just looked classy to me felt classy and I actually prefer the way that this feels over the OnePlus 5 curve ends up making me feel like I might drop the phone a little bit easier so that gives you an idea of the look and then of course we've got the one plus 3T which is the exact same design as this except for I have the black front so there you are so let's go ahead now and take a quick look around to see where everything is located and then we will get into talking about the performance of this device so on the back here we've got a dual camera one is the wide angle lens and the other one is the telephoto lens although honestly it's got the focal length of a portrait type lens definitely not a true telephoto same thing with the iPhone they say that the main wide lens is 16 megapixels and that the telephoto one is 20 megapixels so we've got a microphone right here and also a dual LED flash by the way there is no Optical image stabilization for either of these lenses which is a bummer we've got NFC but no wireless charging then taking a look at the bottom we've got a standard headphone jack thankfully we've got a microphone USBC charging port and also a single speaker then taking a look at the front we have a 16 megapixel camera ambient light sensor proximity sensor also the receiver at the bottom we've got a fingerprint sensor and we've also got some capacitive buttons which you can Interchange to being the back and the recent I also don't want to forget the LED notification light that we do have right here as well then on the right hand side we've got the dual SIM card slot also our power button then finally looking at the left hand side we've got our switch so we've got the silent mode do not disturb and then just all notifications and also the volume rocker and let's not forget that 5.5 in 1080P AMOLED display which is manufactured by Samsung so we can call this Super AMOLED if we want optic AMOLED again is just simply a marketing term that they use it has to do with their calibration of the display now let's first move on to talking about specs and performance it has 128 GB of ufs 2.1 internal storage like my Galaxy S8 plus it's got 8 GB of RAM the Snapdragon 835 s so a 3,300 mAh battery this is a spec Beast the true nerds phone around the interface this feels like a nice and smooth device it is very responsive scrolling for the most part feels nice and smooth I do see some frame drops here and there but overall the experience is good and I really enjoy using this phone if you guys follow me on Twitter I had some unexplainable hiccups in the very beginning but it's been sorted now and I haven't seen that again so with that ufs 2.1 storage launching apps is very quick I have also found app switching is a breeze and feels very darn near instant I really love that as this is the first device I've had that running apps kind of feels more akin to a desktop experience and expanding on that as far as RAM we have eight gigabytes and that is a whole lot so as a comparison the Galaxy S8 has 4 GB of RAM to do everything with including all of Samsung services so that gives you an idea of the performance potential so I am mostly excited to see what the developer Community is going to be doing with its 8 GB of RAM and ideas could be something like allocating part of that Ram to just one aspect of the phone to improve performance so now looking at how many apps I can actually keep open this feels like true multitasking finally it's kind of ridiculous that we need 8 GB of RAM to do that I can easily get close to 20 apps open and that is including several graphic intensive games the web browser Etc so while keeping a close eye on RAM I can see that once unused Ram hits about the 2.2 to 2.3 GB Mark some apps start to restart and yes this is reproducible so this is just some behavior that I've noticed but still we can get tons of apps open open and app switching is pretty much instantaneous so holy cow I am really happy with the performance so how about CPU and GPU performance well many benchmarks used to compare across other devices are out because OnePlus is boosting CPU speeds to Peak Performance whenever it detects benchmarks that are tagged in their code and they've done this because they want to show what the Peak Performance of the phone is but that's not really useful if you want to compare it to other devices it just ends up looking like cheating the only reason I use benchmarks is to look for useful Trends in performance and just to compare between devices otherwise I don't find them interesting to look at for everyday performance what I found interesting with this though was that Carl pay mentioned that resource intensive apps such as 3D games also get this boost in performance but I haven't been able to reproduce this with my CPU and GPU monitoring you can easily tell when the CPU is being pushed to Peak Performance by using an app like system monitor or even qualcomm's pre in so you can check all that I am saying here for yourself so what we're seeing is that the four little cores are boosted to the 1.9 Max gahz when this performance boost is employed and sometimes I see this happening with the bigger cores too so with all this that I just told you I was able to check some real world performance not affected by cheating and I did this with game bench which lets me see how well the phone performs with graphic intensive games and how long it can sustain Peak Performance what I found in earlier reviews is that the Snapdragon 835 is a champ when it comes to Performance in graphics intensive games as it can hold Peak Performance for a while before any thermal throttling kicks in and it's the same thing with the OnePlus 5 this is a great performer also having a 1080p screen only helps in the graphics Department as there are less pixels to drive so on my game bench Rip Tide tests I can get the device to sustain near 60 frames per second performance during the entire 15-minute test I'm telling you guys if you like to game on your phone this is the device to do it with and just so you know seeing performance like this is not a stretch because my Xperia XE premium which renders everything as 1080p also sees these same scores so I think with the Snapdragon 835 1080p is the way to go and at this price point this is fantastic performance so now moving on to talking about the quality of this display we've got several different calibration modes which is really nice to have we got the default the srgb mode dcip 3 and custom color only two of these modes actually conform to any calibration standard that would be the srgb and the DCI P3 so how close are these to meeting those standards well during my measurements I could see that their actual color space coordinates are pretty darn close so yes we can fairly call these the dcip 3 gamut and the srgb color gamut when doing further measurements I can see that both of these modes on my device have a a white point that is a bit too warm and looks slightly yellowish because the blue color channel is a little bit too low the gamma is a tad bit high but not bad so image contrast looks just fine the color saturations aren't perfect but not so off as to look horrible so I think with these calibration modes that they did an admirable job they're not entirely accurate but they're pretty good but do keep in mind though that you need to view the proper encoded content for each of these modes for your images SL content to look right so for dcip 3 you need to view dcip 3 encoded content and for srgb you need to view srgb encoded content which is basically all consumer content web YouTube even the Android operating system and all the apps so if you want color accuracy overall use the srgb mode but honestly for me because these modes have that bit of a yellowish tint I end up going for the default mode or even the custom color mode because I would prefer a bit cooler white Point any day than something that looks kind of yellowish but I am willing to bet that there are some variations across devices I see that all the time with AMOLED with white point there are a lot of variations so mine looks a little bit yellowish under these modes yours might not so how about this display only being 1080p I think that most people are going to be just fine with it unless they have a trained eye or a Quad HD display to compare it side by side too I can tell when holding the 1080p screen side by side with the S8 quad HD panel that the pixel density is not as high especially because of the diamond pentile Matrix on the OnePlus 5 but for power efficiency and performance I think this is an okay tradeoff it's still a very nice display with a great contrast ratio and Punchy colors that people so often love so I wouldn't be all too worried about it so now moving on to talking about battery life with this device this has got a 3,300 mAh battery inside of it that is not a bad size not at all especially with a 1080p display we do not have wireless charging but we do have that extremely fast Dash charging that is my favorite charging system of all the devices that I have used when your battery is depleted just plug it in and at just a little over an hour you will have 100% battery charge that's impressive the other thing I really love about their Dash charging system is that you can have it plugged in and still use the phone have the display on everything and it's still charging at a fast rate if I try to do that with any of my other devices like the Galaxy S8 charging slows to a crawl so I have to kind of just leave the device alone while it's charging otherwise it's not going to charge very quickly so in the event this does not last you through the day just plug it in sit continue doing your work enjoying using your phone it'll still charge up quickly so that Dash charging is amazing battery wise I can get this to last me through the day but once I start running tons of applications on it taking pictures doing a lot of intensive things it does not last me through the day but again with that Dash charging I am not worried at all this is one of those devices that as long as I know I can plug it in I'm not worried about battery life period so now let's move on to talking about these cameras and I will wait for future updates to really assess the camera performance as obviously this device just came out but I did go and test it out a bit so this is a dual camera setup but neither of these lenses is Optical image stabilization which is a bit of a bummer and some modes we do have electronic image stabilization for video though so the main camera is a wide-angle lens while the other is the telephoto lens we've got an f1.7 aperture and an f2.6 and the idea here with providing two different cameras is to provide two different focal lengths while preserving detail because you don't have to digitally crop in order to zoom in they fed the marketing a bit though implying that it's got two times optical zoom with this telephoto lens when it's only 1.6 times optical zoom and then they add digital Zoom to achieve that total of two times zoom and then after that they upscale that crop to 20 megapixel resolution so they're marketing it as two times lossless zoom and not two times optical zoom but I don't see how you can even call that lossless the data just isn't there for the claimed 20 megapixel resolution so for this I really don't understand the point of adding two different focal lengths if it's not going to truly be lossless and you're just going to add a crop onto the zoom anyhow I do notice that they do suffer in lower light environments particularly the zoom lens because with its small fast aperture it can't let in enough light and high ISO images with fast shutter speeds look noisy so I would only use the telephoto camera outdoors and perfect lighting for the best results the wide angle lens has a much wider aperture of f1.7 to let in a lot more light but it doesn't have Optical image stabilization so it's subject to motion blur at longer exposure times basically in perfect daylight you will have a hard time taking a bad picture with these cameras but as soon as you get into shade or lower lighting type of situations that is not where it shines another thing I'm noticing is that they are extremely heavy-handed with post image processing it's so overly process that no detail remains during a crop and it looks like watercolor painting this is where I don't want to judge the camera until after we've had a couple of updates to give them a chance to fix this but there is a lot of potential here I did did take some video as well and I noticed that it's best to stand still when you're filming because then you get a lot of compression artifacts as soon as you start moving around and that's on all modes and I found that it's best to use the 1080p mode if you're going to be moving about because it is electronically stabilized it does crop quite a bit but that stabilization does help provided you're in good lighting I wasn't so happy with the 4K mode but I can see that it does have a lot of potential it's very shaky when you're moving about and I noticed that the image quality looks looks pretty soft it's often hard to tell that it's 4K so I'm really hoping for some improvements these are just thoughts that I have right now as it stands right now these are good daylight cameras but not really indoors or for really low light situations quickly taking a peek at the camera app a lot of people are making fun of it for looking very iPhones especially when you touch here for the zoom to switch between the two different cameras which by the way when you do hit the zoom button that telephoto camera is not always executed it depends if you're in good lighting or if you're trying to get really up close to a subject it's going to actually just use the wide angle lens and crop it's the same thing with the iPhone so that's really not shocking let's go ahead and cover this up so we can see what we're looking at so taking a look at the various settings around this camera interface you have the option to turn on or off the flash or Auto you can choose your aspect there's the HDR setting on or off also the timer to take a picture you can see we have option for photo video portrait there's a PR mode time lapse slow motion Panorama so a very full featured camera you also have access to getting to the video setting and camera settings right here so if you slide here you have just the camera and this gives you your depth effect which I've tried out and works pretty well when it does work other times it makes strange choices and blurs out things that shouldn't this is where an update can be helpful now I really respect that they have a Pro Photo mode it's nice you've got a little histogram here if you want to see how things are exposed here you have a meter to make sure that things are balanced here's exposure compensation here you've got manual or autofocus can mess with the shutter speed keeping the shutter open to up to 30 seconds that's where you're going to need a tripod for that mess around with the white balance you can see you can mess around with the color temperature with the Kelvin scale that's also nice and you can mess around with the iso and another cool thing is that we have the option for raw very very happy about that so some things may be laid out a little bit like the iPhone but overall there's just so many settings here this is not that much like the iPhone maybe inspired by but really not like it oh and then finally you have the option to switch to the front-facing camera that 16 megapixel front-facing camera and there's your gallery and of course if you so desire double click on the power button to execute the camera so overall this is a very nice phone I have everything set up just how I want it it looks like you can add your own custom icons I always love it when a launcher includes that by default these are called sketchy icons by the way I really like the options and settings that we have here underneath the shade we've got a couple of new things such as the reading mode which is pretty cool it's going to make everything in grayscale and it tells you depending on ambient light conditions reading mode will automatically adjust this screen color temperature now I really wish that they gave me the option to do this myself you also have the option to automatically turn on for these various apps so for Kindle for example I can automatically just have it go immediately to grayscale very easy to get out of it just turn it off there I have always always loved this toggle switch that we have here I don't have to go and Fiddle around with the Do Not Disturb mode they make it very simple on you do you want to get notifications yes then keep it here do you want priority notifications yes keep it here do you want it silent yes I always love it when you have options to customize your buttons you can have the onscreen navigation if you want or just use the capacitive ones here and you can choose what orientation you want them in I chose just to have the standard being up to pull up multi- window if I hold down on the recents key but you don't have to you can choose whatever you want you've also got your gaming Do Not Disturb mode which I find actually really useful when I'm running particular benchmarks that end up pausing or getting kicked out of if somebody sends a text message to me or something so that's been useful if I want to be in an application and don't want to be bothered of course we still have our gestures such as double tap to wake you can draw these various letters in order to gain certain control to access certain applications though they only work when the display is off all in all this is an excellent phone this is particularly a nerds phone and where I'm most excited is to have developers start working on it create custom roms and really U utilize all that Ram or allocate it to specific type of things get this phone being just even more awesome in performance is it better than something like my Galaxy S8 plus well what I really get with the S8 is a particular type of experience and a lot of features it's really a Samsung ecosystem where with this device I'm more free to do with it what I feel like and it's got the type of specs to support that type of attitude so this is all that I want to say about this phone right now great phone I think people are going to be happy with it there's a lot of people are not happy right at this moment but just give it some time I think for the price this offers a lot of great features so this has been Erica the technology nerd likes to film stuff please rate comment and subscribe let me know what you think let me know if this is your next device hope you enjoy the video and have a good night byehey everybody this is Erica the technology nerd likes to film stuff and right here I have the hugest box possible from One Plus thank you one plus I don't know where I'm going to put this and I could probably fit inside it but I believe this is the OnePlus 5 Okay so we've got this little cloth bag here which I'm sure is protecting the inner bag it's a backpack and I'm a fan of backpacks really big fan of backpacks I don't like purses but I do like backpacks ah so this is a OnePlus travel backpack very very nice okay so I'm guessing the box is probably in here go ahead and open it up yep and I was right here we go so this looks like a Media Kit of some kind ready oh yeah that's nice so opening it up let's see what do we got so it looks like we've got a reviewer's guide right here dual camera cleaner photos now I've been hearing a lot of opinions surrounding the release of this phone a lot of people are pretty happy with the specs where other people are just not so happy especially when it came to marketing yada yada I don't want to jump on the hype train I just like looking at a phone for what it is so let's keep it that way shall we so it looks like we've got a compartment with lots of cases here now I've actually always really liked liked the little cases that OnePlus makes a lot of you guys know that I am not a fan of cases and if I am going to use a case it better be as minimalistic as possible and that's kind of what these are they're just like shells they're not really protective or anything so we've got four different cases right here we've got an ebony we've got a Rosewood sandstone and a carbon like a carbon fiber looking case and then this is the compartments I'm sure for the phone and yes it is all right how do I sure this convenient little hole is for my finger indeed it is oh my goodness I have no room to put this and the phone itself so this is the a5000 this is the midnight black 128 gbt with 8 gbt of ram that's a lot of RAM is this phone actually going to be able to utilize all that Ram I don't know yet I am hoping though with this spec set the Snapdragon 835 that this is a nice and smooth phone here is my Galaxy S8 plus and and I have affectionately named it Mr Jank I like this phone a lot but it's not the smoothest hey what are you doing I have an intruder he's in the way as always would you just stay okay so let's go ahead and open the box ripping off all the plastic now okay now here we go very slowly for effect opening the box and you do indeed see it saying dual camera clearer photos everywhere and I haven't been hearing the best things about the camera so far now I would hope that just with some updates that things would change so I don't want to judge the camera too heavily right now upon first release so here we got the phone let's go ahead and just take this plastic off take off my little Cal number and right out of the box it has a screen protector on it that's nice I'm going to rip that off right away I don't care for screen protectors don't like them don't want it bye-bye is it oleophobic underneath yes it is you see I've made that mistake of ripping off a screen protector and then realized oh there's there's no alhob coating underneath not not good not a good deal so the first thing that people say is oh it looks like an iPhone and I pick it up and I'm like okay I mean maybe a little bit with the way that that dual camera sensor is on the front but it's got this curve to it that the iPhone doesn't have so it doesn't immediately step out to me as iPhone actually one thing that does immediately step out to me as iPhone x though is the way that they have this plastic for the antenna band same thing for the bottom too so here is my product red iPhone and you can see it right next to the OnePlus 5 and really I think that the iPhone is kind of more bulky and less graceful looking than the slope that we have here on the OnePlus 5 but really each to his own if it looks to iPhone x to you that's just fine it does feel pretty thin and also light in the hand but it does have a substantial weight and feel to it and we do have a headphone jack there at the bottom so that's a definite plus what else is in the box so let's go ahead and lift this up it looks like we've got the standard Fair of documentation and things in here looks like we have a quick start guide and also the Sim ejection tool there and a very nice shot that was taken with the OnePlus 5 in Iceland nonetheless all right let's take that out and it's the letter that we usually see from Carl pay then we've got the cable for the dash charger and I have really loved the dash charger that is seriously the fastest charging that I have seen I also have the dash charger for the car already so that's going to be nice when using this so that is all that is in the box so now before we move on I'd like to take a second to thank last pass for partnering with me to make this video possible so in this digital world we all 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services work across all of your devices put your p passwords on autopilot with last pass check out the link in the description if you want to try them out they are free so here we are several days later I figured I would spend as much time with this phone as I could over the weekend so that I could get as an informative review out as possible for you all so I could let you know what I think if I need to create an after the buzz type review later on after we get a lot of updates then I will do so so the first thing I want to say to you guys is the more I use this the less it reminds me of an iPhone yes we do have a very similar sensor placement and all this right here is placed very similarly but it just doesn't feel anything like it and I was telling you guys that earlier especially once you slap one of these cases on it it really looks and feels nothing like an iPhone so if that is part of your apprehension don't let it be which reminds me I do want to show you all of these cases that we have here now that they are out of their boxes I was saying that none of them are very protective While most of them are indeed shells we actually have one that's more like a case this is the carbon one and you can see it's got little covers for the button cutouts as well the only thing is that when I do this it just kind of looks cheap and feels cheap to me I don't like the way that this lip looks it reminds me very much so now of the Nexus 5 so if you guys are wanting to preserve the beautiful look of the phone I would get the Sandstone one it's definitely less slippery this way plus the OnePlus One and OnePlus 2 came with this cover by default then we've also got the Rosewood option and I forget what this last one is called although I think this is probably my favorite wood option I think it looks premium and unique just liit this one on right there there you go and it doesn't look too bad I just happened to not like the wood grain look of this particular case so overall you could probably call this device inspired by the iPhone but with adding cases to it and just using it in day-to-day it really doesn't look or feel like it to me I do have to admit though when looking at the back I love the way that this looks feels although it's really slippery but the front does look quite a bit dated I'm not sure what it is I think it's more or less this huge fingerprint sensor that we have down here right here I do have all the other OnePlus devices if you want to have a little bit of a comparison to see what this looks like let's wipe this down it does get finger printy quite quickly but wipes off nice and quickly as well thankfully so here we have it next to the OnePlus One this was very well-loved got sunscreen all over it so it's oily looking OnePlus 2 that's where we started getting this USB type-c connector at the bottom then OnePlus 3 and this was my overall favorite phone of all of them that they've made and probably one of my most favorite devices of all time I really loved this light gold color and I liked the shade of white that they chose for the front as well it just looked classy to me felt classy and I actually prefer the way that this feels over the OnePlus 5 curve ends up making me feel like I might drop the phone a little bit easier so that gives you an idea of the look and then of course we've got the one plus 3T which is the exact same design as this except for I have the black front so there you are so let's go ahead now and take a quick look around to see where everything is located and then we will get into talking about the performance of this device so on the back here we've got a dual camera one is the wide angle lens and the other one is the telephoto lens although honestly it's got the focal length of a portrait type lens definitely not a true telephoto same thing with the iPhone they say that the main wide lens is 16 megapixels and that the telephoto one is 20 megapixels so we've got a microphone right here and also a dual LED flash by the way there is no Optical image stabilization for either of these lenses which is a bummer we've got NFC but no wireless charging then taking a look at the bottom we've got a standard headphone jack thankfully we've got a microphone USBC charging port and also a single speaker then taking a look at the front we have a 16 megapixel camera ambient light sensor proximity sensor also the receiver at the bottom we've got a fingerprint sensor and we've also got some capacitive buttons which you can Interchange to being the back and the recent I also don't want to forget the LED notification light that we do have right here as well then on the right hand side we've got the dual SIM card slot also our power button then finally looking at the left hand side we've got our switch so we've got the silent mode do not disturb and then just all notifications and also the volume rocker and let's not forget that 5.5 in 1080P AMOLED display which is manufactured by Samsung so we can call this Super AMOLED if we want optic AMOLED again is just simply a marketing term that they use it has to do with their calibration of the display now let's first move on to talking about specs and performance it has 128 GB of ufs 2.1 internal storage like my Galaxy S8 plus it's got 8 GB of RAM the Snapdragon 835 s so a 3,300 mAh battery this is a spec Beast the true nerds phone around the interface this feels like a nice and smooth device it is very responsive scrolling for the most part feels nice and smooth I do see some frame drops here and there but overall the experience is good and I really enjoy using this phone if you guys follow me on Twitter I had some unexplainable hiccups in the very beginning but it's been sorted now and I haven't seen that again so with that ufs 2.1 storage launching apps is very quick I have also found app switching is a breeze and feels very darn near instant I really love that as this is the first device I've had that running apps kind of feels more akin to a desktop experience and expanding on that as far as RAM we have eight gigabytes and that is a whole lot so as a comparison the Galaxy S8 has 4 GB of RAM to do everything with including all of Samsung services so that gives you an idea of the performance potential so I am mostly excited to see what the developer Community is going to be doing with its 8 GB of RAM and ideas could be something like allocating part of that Ram to just one aspect of the phone to improve performance so now looking at how many apps I can actually keep open this feels like true multitasking finally it's kind of ridiculous that we need 8 GB of RAM to do that I can easily get close to 20 apps open and that is including several graphic intensive games the web browser Etc so while keeping a close eye on RAM I can see that once unused Ram hits about the 2.2 to 2.3 GB Mark some apps start to restart and yes this is reproducible so this is just some behavior that I've noticed but still we can get tons of apps open open and app switching is pretty much instantaneous so holy cow I am really happy with the performance so how about CPU and GPU performance well many benchmarks used to compare across other devices are out because OnePlus is boosting CPU speeds to Peak Performance whenever it detects benchmarks that are tagged in their code and they've done this because they want to show what the Peak Performance of the phone is but that's not really useful if you want to compare it to other devices it just ends up looking like cheating the only reason I use benchmarks is to look for useful Trends in performance and just to compare between devices otherwise I don't find them interesting to look at for everyday performance what I found interesting with this though was that Carl pay mentioned that resource intensive apps such as 3D games also get this boost in performance but I haven't been able to reproduce this with my CPU and GPU monitoring you can easily tell when the CPU is being pushed to Peak Performance by using an app like system monitor or even qualcomm's pre in so you can check all that I am saying here for yourself so what we're seeing is that the four little cores are boosted to the 1.9 Max gahz when this performance boost is employed and sometimes I see this happening with the bigger cores too so with all this that I just told you I was able to check some real world performance not affected by cheating and I did this with game bench which lets me see how well the phone performs with graphic intensive games and how long it can sustain Peak Performance what I found in earlier reviews is that the Snapdragon 835 is a champ when it comes to Performance in graphics intensive games as it can hold Peak Performance for a while before any thermal throttling kicks in and it's the same thing with the OnePlus 5 this is a great performer also having a 1080p screen only helps in the graphics Department as there are less pixels to drive so on my game bench Rip Tide tests I can get the device to sustain near 60 frames per second performance during the entire 15-minute test I'm telling you guys if you like to game on your phone this is the device to do it with and just so you know seeing performance like this is not a stretch because my Xperia XE premium which renders everything as 1080p also sees these same scores so I think with the Snapdragon 835 1080p is the way to go and at this price point this is fantastic performance so now moving on to talking about the quality of this display we've got several different calibration modes which is really nice to have we got the default the srgb mode dcip 3 and custom color only two of these modes actually conform to any calibration standard that would be the srgb and the DCI P3 so how close are these to meeting those standards well during my measurements I could see that their actual color space coordinates are pretty darn close so yes we can fairly call these the dcip 3 gamut and the srgb color gamut when doing further measurements I can see that both of these modes on my device have a a white point that is a bit too warm and looks slightly yellowish because the blue color channel is a little bit too low the gamma is a tad bit high but not bad so image contrast looks just fine the color saturations aren't perfect but not so off as to look horrible so I think with these calibration modes that they did an admirable job they're not entirely accurate but they're pretty good but do keep in mind though that you need to view the proper encoded content for each of these modes for your images SL content to look right so for dcip 3 you need to view dcip 3 encoded content and for srgb you need to view srgb encoded content which is basically all consumer content web YouTube even the Android operating system and all the apps so if you want color accuracy overall use the srgb mode but honestly for me because these modes have that bit of a yellowish tint I end up going for the default mode or even the custom color mode because I would prefer a bit cooler white Point any day than something that looks kind of yellowish but I am willing to bet that there are some variations across devices I see that all the time with AMOLED with white point there are a lot of variations so mine looks a little bit yellowish under these modes yours might not so how about this display only being 1080p I think that most people are going to be just fine with it unless they have a trained eye or a Quad HD display to compare it side by side too I can tell when holding the 1080p screen side by side with the S8 quad HD panel that the pixel density is not as high especially because of the diamond pentile Matrix on the OnePlus 5 but for power efficiency and performance I think this is an okay tradeoff it's still a very nice display with a great contrast ratio and Punchy colors that people so often love so I wouldn't be all too worried about it so now moving on to talking about battery life with this device this has got a 3,300 mAh battery inside of it that is not a bad size not at all especially with a 1080p display we do not have wireless charging but we do have that extremely fast Dash charging that is my favorite charging system of all the devices that I have used when your battery is depleted just plug it in and at just a little over an hour you will have 100% battery charge that's impressive the other thing I really love about their Dash charging system is that you can have it plugged in and still use the phone have the display on everything and it's still charging at a fast rate if I try to do that with any of my other devices like the Galaxy S8 charging slows to a crawl so I have to kind of just leave the device alone while it's charging otherwise it's not going to charge very quickly so in the event this does not last you through the day just plug it in sit continue doing your work enjoying using your phone it'll still charge up quickly so that Dash charging is amazing battery wise I can get this to last me through the day but once I start running tons of applications on it taking pictures doing a lot of intensive things it does not last me through the day but again with that Dash charging I am not worried at all this is one of those devices that as long as I know I can plug it in I'm not worried about battery life period so now let's move on to talking about these cameras and I will wait for future updates to really assess the camera performance as obviously this device just came out but I did go and test it out a bit so this is a dual camera setup but neither of these lenses is Optical image stabilization which is a bit of a bummer and some modes we do have electronic image stabilization for video though so the main camera is a wide-angle lens while the other is the telephoto lens we've got an f1.7 aperture and an f2.6 and the idea here with providing two different cameras is to provide two different focal lengths while preserving detail because you don't have to digitally crop in order to zoom in they fed the marketing a bit though implying that it's got two times optical zoom with this telephoto lens when it's only 1.6 times optical zoom and then they add digital Zoom to achieve that total of two times zoom and then after that they upscale that crop to 20 megapixel resolution so they're marketing it as two times lossless zoom and not two times optical zoom but I don't see how you can even call that lossless the data just isn't there for the claimed 20 megapixel resolution so for this I really don't understand the point of adding two different focal lengths if it's not going to truly be lossless and you're just going to add a crop onto the zoom anyhow I do notice that they do suffer in lower light environments particularly the zoom lens because with its small fast aperture it can't let in enough light and high ISO images with fast shutter speeds look noisy so I would only use the telephoto camera outdoors and perfect lighting for the best results the wide angle lens has a much wider aperture of f1.7 to let in a lot more light but it doesn't have Optical image stabilization so it's subject to motion blur at longer exposure times basically in perfect daylight you will have a hard time taking a bad picture with these cameras but as soon as you get into shade or lower lighting type of situations that is not where it shines another thing I'm noticing is that they are extremely heavy-handed with post image processing it's so overly process that no detail remains during a crop and it looks like watercolor painting this is where I don't want to judge the camera until after we've had a couple of updates to give them a chance to fix this but there is a lot of potential here I did did take some video as well and I noticed that it's best to stand still when you're filming because then you get a lot of compression artifacts as soon as you start moving around and that's on all modes and I found that it's best to use the 1080p mode if you're going to be moving about because it is electronically stabilized it does crop quite a bit but that stabilization does help provided you're in good lighting I wasn't so happy with the 4K mode but I can see that it does have a lot of potential it's very shaky when you're moving about and I noticed that the image quality looks looks pretty soft it's often hard to tell that it's 4K so I'm really hoping for some improvements these are just thoughts that I have right now as it stands right now these are good daylight cameras but not really indoors or for really low light situations quickly taking a peek at the camera app a lot of people are making fun of it for looking very iPhones especially when you touch here for the zoom to switch between the two different cameras which by the way when you do hit the zoom button that telephoto camera is not always executed it depends if you're in good lighting or if you're trying to get really up close to a subject it's going to actually just use the wide angle lens and crop it's the same thing with the iPhone so that's really not shocking let's go ahead and cover this up so we can see what we're looking at so taking a look at the various settings around this camera interface you have the option to turn on or off the flash or Auto you can choose your aspect there's the HDR setting on or off also the timer to take a picture you can see we have option for photo video portrait there's a PR mode time lapse slow motion Panorama so a very full featured camera you also have access to getting to the video setting and camera settings right here so if you slide here you have just the camera and this gives you your depth effect which I've tried out and works pretty well when it does work other times it makes strange choices and blurs out things that shouldn't this is where an update can be helpful now I really respect that they have a Pro Photo mode it's nice you've got a little histogram here if you want to see how things are exposed here you have a meter to make sure that things are balanced here's exposure compensation here you've got manual or autofocus can mess with the shutter speed keeping the shutter open to up to 30 seconds that's where you're going to need a tripod for that mess around with the white balance you can see you can mess around with the color temperature with the Kelvin scale that's also nice and you can mess around with the iso and another cool thing is that we have the option for raw very very happy about that so some things may be laid out a little bit like the iPhone but overall there's just so many settings here this is not that much like the iPhone maybe inspired by but really not like it oh and then finally you have the option to switch to the front-facing camera that 16 megapixel front-facing camera and there's your gallery and of course if you so desire double click on the power button to execute the camera so overall this is a very nice phone I have everything set up just how I want it it looks like you can add your own custom icons I always love it when a launcher includes that by default these are called sketchy icons by the way I really like the options and settings that we have here underneath the shade we've got a couple of new things such as the reading mode which is pretty cool it's going to make everything in grayscale and it tells you depending on ambient light conditions reading mode will automatically adjust this screen color temperature now I really wish that they gave me the option to do this myself you also have the option to automatically turn on for these various apps so for Kindle for example I can automatically just have it go immediately to grayscale very easy to get out of it just turn it off there I have always always loved this toggle switch that we have here I don't have to go and Fiddle around with the Do Not Disturb mode they make it very simple on you do you want to get notifications yes then keep it here do you want priority notifications yes keep it here do you want it silent yes I always love it when you have options to customize your buttons you can have the onscreen navigation if you want or just use the capacitive ones here and you can choose what orientation you want them in I chose just to have the standard being up to pull up multi- window if I hold down on the recents key but you don't have to you can choose whatever you want you've also got your gaming Do Not Disturb mode which I find actually really useful when I'm running particular benchmarks that end up pausing or getting kicked out of if somebody sends a text message to me or something so that's been useful if I want to be in an application and don't want to be bothered of course we still have our gestures such as double tap to wake you can draw these various letters in order to gain certain control to access certain applications though they only work when the display is off all in all this is an excellent phone this is particularly a nerds phone and where I'm most excited is to have developers start working on it create custom roms and really U utilize all that Ram or allocate it to specific type of things get this phone being just even more awesome in performance is it better than something like my Galaxy S8 plus well what I really get with the S8 is a particular type of experience and a lot of features it's really a Samsung ecosystem where with this device I'm more free to do with it what I feel like and it's got the type of specs to support that type of attitude so this is all that I want to say about this phone right now great phone I think people are going to be happy with it there's a lot of people are not happy right at this moment but just give it some time I think for the price this offers a lot of great features so this has been Erica the technology nerd likes to film stuff please rate comment and subscribe let me know what you think let me know if this is your next device hope you enjoy the video and have a 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