**Unboxing and Initial Impressions of the OnePlus Smartphone**

The reviewer is excited to share their unboxing experience with the latest smartphone from OnePlus, which boasts impressive specs and features at an affordable price. As they lift the device out of its box, they notice that the storage capacity is relatively low, with only 64GB available for use, leaving a significant amount of space unused. However, the reviewer emphasizes the importance of having ample storage, especially considering how quickly it can fill up over time.

The camera samples taken by the reviewer showcase the device's capabilities, particularly in outdoor and indoor settings. While the camera performs well in bright conditions, it struggles with low light and portrait mode shots. The reviewer also notes that the ultra-wide lens has a noticeable color shift, which may affect the overall image quality. Nevertheless, the camera's performance is still commendable, especially considering its price point.

One of the standout features of this smartphone is its Oxygen OS software, which offers a clean and seamless user interface without any ads or distractions. The reviewer highlights the importance of this aspect, citing it as a major selling point for OnePlus devices. They also mention that the device's design could have been improved with a more premium material, such as glass, instead of plastic.

**Shortcomings and Criticisms**

However, not everything about this smartphone is rosy. The reviewer expresses disappointment with the lack of optical image stabilization in the camera system, which was a feature present in some of its predecessors. They also lament the absence of stereo speakers, which they believe would enhance the overall audio experience.

Furthermore, the reviewer notes that the device lacks an alert slider, a feature that has become a standard on many smartphones. Additionally, there is no Gorilla Glass protection, which could make the device more prone to scratches and damage.

**5G Connectivity and Pricing**

The reviewer also mentions the issue of 5G connectivity, particularly in Indian variants of the smartphone, where only one band of 5G is supported. This compromise may be disappointing for users who expect a more comprehensive 5G experience.

Finally, the reviewer comments on the pricing strategy employed by OnePlus, which they feel has become more aggressive in recent times. While the device offers impressive specs and features at an affordable price, the reviewer wonders if the company is starting to cut too many corners or sacrifice quality in pursuit of profit margins.

**Conclusion**

As the reviewer prepares to spend some time with the smartphone, they invite readers to share their thoughts on whether OnePlus has finally settled into a comfortable groove or if they're compromising on certain aspects. The verdict remains to be seen, but one thing is clear: this device has its strengths and weaknesses, and it will be interesting to see how it performs in real-world scenarios.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi guys this is ranjeet and in this video let's do the unboxing and have a look at this not the ce smartphone and guys this is a retail uh unit that i had purchased from amazon so let's open this up and i like you don't need a knife or anything hopefully oh you still need it it just opened so i'll use my knife to open it up and guys it comes in various uh what do you say capacities the base variant actually starts at six gigabytes of ram uh but i would suggest not to go with that one because uh ram is not an issue uh the base variant the storage is just 64 gigabytes and i feel if you plan to keep the phone more than a year that will be the limiting factor so the base uh one that you will have to go is this one and uh this is uh having the eight gigabytes of ram and 128 gigabytes of storage uh i was able to purchase this for uh 24 000 actually the retail price of this one is 25 000 but if you use a hdfc card you get a thousand rupees discount i'll leave the link of amazon in the description if you're buying use that it helps the channel so let's open this up and have a look and uh i would say very mixed reactions that i'm having towards this seeing the specs so here is the device itself and back actually looks like glass guys but it is plastic in fact the entire frame is plastic on this one but yeah i think that's the new trend that we are seeing in mid-range smartphones so this is the smartphone that we get i like the size it's not too big i would say we'll come back to the device later let's see what else and uh so we get a case in the box so the nice and some bunch of paper works not it says quick start guide and all those things i'll just keep these things to the side and we get the charger that's the wrap charger this is a 30 watt fast charger and a charging uh cable that's usb type a to type c that you are creating so that's what we get in the box i'll just keep this to the side uh as you can see guys uh actually it does not weigh that much i would say so not heavy uh we have a secondary noise cancellation microphone fortunately and uh here we just have the what do you say power on off button one thing uh that is missing that we have always found in one plus device is if you notice that alert slider is missing on this one and frankly speaking guys initial reactions i would say uh it looks more or less like a real me or oppo phone rather than a one plus phone that's the first impression i am getting so you don't have the edit slider just the power uh on off button over here uh bottom is the speaker and again guys no stereo speakers on this one just a single speaker uh we have a type c phone but we have a 3.5 mm headphone jack which is a welcome move in my front opinion uh and here is a volume rocker and this will be your sim tray again guys it's a one plus device so no micro sd card this is two nano sims that's the reason i'm saying uh you shouldn't go for the base variant because the storage is just 64 gigabytes on that one but we have a triple camera setup the 64 megapixel is the main one this is omnivision sensor we'll have a look at some of the samples later on then we have eight megapixel that's ultra wide and then we have the below two megapixel camera that's the macro camera on this one uh then we have a 16 megapixel front facing camera and uh oneplus is again touting this as a 5g smartphone technically yes but it just has one band of 5g so essentially i would say don't treat it as a 5g phone if you treat it as a 5g phone you will be definitely disappointed uh claiming a phone with just one band of 5g and charging almost 25 000 is a joke because these days we are getting some 5g smartphones around the 15 000 price rank that are having about five or six pounds of 5g so guys don't get to the hype of oneplus just one band of id so don't treat it as a 5d smartphone if you treat it like a 4g smartphone then you will be mentally okay so let's do one thing let me just power this on i'll just uh set this up and then we will continue so guys i have set up the smartphone so let's have a closer look at the same man now and guys at the side i'll have all the specs for your reference and guys as you can see this is having a 6.43 inch uh screen that's the amoled screen it's a 90 hertz screen that you are getting and left you go you get the google pin and again typical oxygen os that's the thing that i like about this smartphone that's the biggest plus point i would say oxygen os no bloatware or anything i just installed airdroid app apart from that nothing i've also taken some camera samples i'll show you that so pretty clean layout i would say and these are the quick toggles i still miss the alert slider i would say and uh i already got one what do you say update or ot update so i had applied that also took some photographs with this one uh so i have applied that our latest update that i got ot update on this one and i would say the handset feels light but initial impressions i would say at the back though it's plastic guys this could have been better and maybe you should go for a different color because at least on this color it's very glossy and as you can see it shows the fingerprints also very easily and i don't know why but if i tap in i get a slightly hollow sensation so it does not feel that premium i would say uh that way i would say oneplus should have consulted the real me team uh most of the rearme phones have a plastic back but even though they have a plastic bag they don't they feel a little bit more premium i would say so that is something that i am noticing on this one and uh one thing i don't like is that uh this smartphone does not have any glass protection on the front uh no no gorilla glass or anything oneplus should have at least given a gorilla glass three considering the price point and as i've also told you uh no stereo speakers on this one so just a single speaker but we do get a 3.5 mm headphone jack on this one and handset feeds a light to hold uh you always you also have this always on display and the fingerprint scanner is here at the bottom and fairly responsive i would say the thing that i noticed is that the in display fingerprint scanner is actually pretty low on this one so it takes time to get used to it for example this is the oneplus 9r and notice the position this position i would say is a lot better in terms of the fingerprint scanner just notice how low it is so uh you might have to adjust your hand grip i would say on uh this one and again just use it with the case guys uh just doesn't feel that uh premium anyways uh moving to the next thing that i noticed on uh this one is again that clean ui you're still getting and guys this is the uh not the base variant and i feel uh everyone should go at least with this one because storage if you notice i just took some camera samples out of that 128 gigabytes about 109 gigabytes is available to us so if you offer the 64 gb store uh variant that's the base variant the storage will be actually pretty less after four or five months you will feel the cramped storage so this is the base that you should go now let's also look at the camera on this one it's a 64 megapixel main camera that we are getting uh then we have 8 megapixel ultra wide then that 2 megapixel rubbish that we have and let's just bring some objects here and let me show you so this is the camera interface that you we are getting so you have the tab to focus uh this is the ultra white and i notice color shifted the ultra wide so got to be careful with the ultra white and this is digital zoom that's 2x that you can use then we have the portrait mode nightscape and even the pro mode in terms of software uh front facing uh this is the front facing that you have and again we also have the portrait mode with the front facing camera so let me do one thing let me actually show you some of the samples that i have taken uh here so outdoor samples as you can see they come out good and again as you can see this was in the portrait okay mode and these were taken in office with a lot of lighting and here i would say it does a decent job but again in the lighting situations the camera does struggle up quite a bit though this sample was okay here it struggled a little bit front facing same scenario front facing outdoors actually the performance was very good even in the portrait bokeh mode it was good but in indoor lighting as you can see it struggles quite a bit so guys that's it for now for the unboxing of this one but i have some initial impressions also with this device so let me just share that with you uh as the pricing is about 25 000 if you don't include that hdfc discount uh card for this variant that comes with 128 gigabytes of storage i feel oneplus is now charging quite a bit of a premium for this the biggest strength i would say uh that you have with this device is oxygen os and that's the biggest trump card of this device clean ui no ads or anything and i feel that's a very important thing uh that i would say and in fact i would say the rear facing camera main camera was not as shabby as i thought i don't have the original oneplus not but i felt that the camera performance was better than the original nod what i'll try to do is i'll try to actually uh take camera samples with the v what do you say some of the other smartphones in this price range and then we'll compare the camera i'll do that later on so stay tuned to my channel but now moving to some of the shortcomings that i have noticed on this smartphone is that and i don't like that and the first thing is that plastic body i don't get me wrong uh a plastic body is fine but this could have been done better as i've told you and i missed that uh with most of the oneplus devices you used to get that glass back that is not there uh even moving to the camera we don't have optical image stabilization on this one the original node actually had that and next thing is no stereo speaker is a big bummer for a smartphone that is costing almost 25 000 in my frank opinion and i miss this alert slider and i don't know why guys uh this smartphone is giving me more vibes of oppo or real me smartphone rather than a oneplus smartphone to uh to be very frank guys apart from the oxygen os uh ui and i also don't like that no gorilla glass was given on this one and lastly let's not even talk about the 5g choke that the oneplus is playing with specifically the indian variants the international variants are getting 11 to 12 minutes or 5g but the 5g variants uh so-called 5d variants that are sold in india are just having one band of 5d so there i feel also it's a big compromise uh what i'll do is uh i'll try to i'll put my main sim on this one i'll use the smartphone uh for a couple of days or weeks and then we'll come up with my full review with the pros and cons but what do you guys feel about this not ce is one plus starting to cut too many corners or not and do you think they have finally settled with the nazi let me know in the comment section below anyways guys that's it for now thanks for watching this is ranjit and i hope to see you in my next video take care guyshi guys this is ranjeet and in this video let's do the unboxing and have a look at this not the ce smartphone and guys this is a retail uh unit that i had purchased from amazon so let's open this up and i like you don't need a knife or anything hopefully oh you still need it it just opened so i'll use my knife to open it up and guys it comes in various uh what do you say capacities the base variant actually starts at six gigabytes of ram uh but i would suggest not to go with that one because uh ram is not an issue uh the base variant the storage is just 64 gigabytes and i feel if you plan to keep the phone more than a year that will be the limiting factor so the base uh one that you will have to go is this one and uh this is uh having the eight gigabytes of ram and 128 gigabytes of storage uh i was able to purchase this for uh 24 000 actually the retail price of this one is 25 000 but if you use a hdfc card you get a thousand rupees discount i'll leave the link of amazon in the description if you're buying use that it helps the channel so let's open this up and have a look and uh i would say very mixed reactions that i'm having towards this seeing the specs so here is the device itself and back actually looks like glass guys but it is plastic in fact the entire frame is plastic on this one but yeah i think that's the new trend that we are seeing in mid-range smartphones so this is the smartphone that we get i like the size it's not too big i would say we'll come back to the device later let's see what else and uh so we get a case in the box so the nice and some bunch of paper works not it says quick start guide and all those things i'll just keep these things to the side and we get the charger that's the wrap charger this is a 30 watt fast charger and a charging uh cable that's usb type a to type c that you are creating so that's what we get in the box i'll just keep this to the side uh as you can see guys uh actually it does not weigh that much i would say so not heavy uh we have a secondary noise cancellation microphone fortunately and uh here we just have the what do you say power on off button one thing uh that is missing that we have always found in one plus device is if you notice that alert slider is missing on this one and frankly speaking guys initial reactions i would say uh it looks more or less like a real me or oppo phone rather than a one plus phone that's the first impression i am getting so you don't have the edit slider just the power uh on off button over here uh bottom is the speaker and again guys no stereo speakers on this one just a single speaker uh we have a type c phone but we have a 3.5 mm headphone jack which is a welcome move in my front opinion uh and here is a volume rocker and this will be your sim tray again guys it's a one plus device so no micro sd card this is two nano sims that's the reason i'm saying uh you shouldn't go for the base variant because the storage is just 64 gigabytes on that one but we have a triple camera setup the 64 megapixel is the main one this is omnivision sensor we'll have a look at some of the samples later on then we have eight megapixel that's ultra wide and then we have the below two megapixel camera that's the macro camera on this one uh then we have a 16 megapixel front facing camera and uh oneplus is again touting this as a 5g smartphone technically yes but it just has one band of 5g so essentially i would say don't treat it as a 5g phone if you treat it as a 5g phone you will be definitely disappointed uh claiming a phone with just one band of 5g and charging almost 25 000 is a joke because these days we are getting some 5g smartphones around the 15 000 price rank that are having about five or six pounds of 5g so guys don't get to the hype of oneplus just one band of id so don't treat it as a 5d smartphone if you treat it like a 4g smartphone then you will be mentally okay so let's do one thing let me just power this on i'll just uh set this up and then we will continue so guys i have set up the smartphone so let's have a closer look at the same man now and guys at the side i'll have all the specs for your reference and guys as you can see this is having a 6.43 inch uh screen that's the amoled screen it's a 90 hertz screen that you are getting and left you go you get the google pin and again typical oxygen os that's the thing that i like about this smartphone that's the biggest plus point i would say oxygen os no bloatware or anything i just installed airdroid app apart from that nothing i've also taken some camera samples i'll show you that so pretty clean layout i would say and these are the quick toggles i still miss the alert slider i would say and uh i already got one what do you say update or ot update so i had applied that also took some photographs with this one uh so i have applied that our latest update that i got ot update on this one and i would say the handset feels light but initial impressions i would say at the back though it's plastic guys this could have been better and maybe you should go for a different color because at least on this color it's very glossy and as you can see it shows the fingerprints also very easily and i don't know why but if i tap in i get a slightly hollow sensation so it does not feel that premium i would say uh that way i would say oneplus should have consulted the real me team uh most of the rearme phones have a plastic back but even though they have a plastic bag they don't they feel a little bit more premium i would say so that is something that i am noticing on this one and uh one thing i don't like is that uh this smartphone does not have any glass protection on the front uh no no gorilla glass or anything oneplus should have at least given a gorilla glass three considering the price point and as i've also told you uh no stereo speakers on this one so just a single speaker but we do get a 3.5 mm headphone jack on this one and handset feeds a light to hold uh you always you also have this always on display and the fingerprint scanner is here at the bottom and fairly responsive i would say the thing that i noticed is that the in display fingerprint scanner is actually pretty low on this one so it takes time to get used to it for example this is the oneplus 9r and notice the position this position i would say is a lot better in terms of the fingerprint scanner just notice how low it is so uh you might have to adjust your hand grip i would say on uh this one and again just use it with the case guys uh just doesn't feel that uh premium anyways uh moving to the next thing that i noticed on uh this one is again that clean ui you're still getting and guys this is the uh not the base variant and i feel uh everyone should go at least with this one because storage if you notice i just took some camera samples out of that 128 gigabytes about 109 gigabytes is available to us so if you offer the 64 gb store uh variant that's the base variant the storage will be actually pretty less after four or five months you will feel the cramped storage so this is the base that you should go now let's also look at the camera on this one it's a 64 megapixel main camera that we are getting uh then we have 8 megapixel ultra wide then that 2 megapixel rubbish that we have and let's just bring some objects here and let me show you so this is the camera interface that you we are getting so you have the tab to focus uh this is the ultra white and i notice color shifted the ultra wide so got to be careful with the ultra white and this is digital zoom that's 2x that you can use then we have the portrait mode nightscape and even the pro mode in terms of software uh front facing uh this is the front facing that you have and again we also have the portrait mode with the front facing camera so let me do one thing let me actually show you some of the samples that i have taken uh here so outdoor samples as you can see they come out good and again as you can see this was in the portrait okay mode and these were taken in office with a lot of lighting and here i would say it does a decent job but again in the lighting situations the camera does struggle up quite a bit though this sample was okay here it struggled a little bit front facing same scenario front facing outdoors actually the performance was very good even in the portrait bokeh mode it was good but in indoor lighting as you can see it struggles quite a bit so guys that's it for now for the unboxing of this one but i have some initial impressions also with this device so let me just share that with you uh as the pricing is about 25 000 if you don't include that hdfc discount uh card for this variant that comes with 128 gigabytes of storage i feel oneplus is now charging quite a bit of a premium for this the biggest strength i would say uh that you have with this device is oxygen os and that's the biggest trump card of this device clean ui no ads or anything and i feel that's a very important thing uh that i would say and in fact i would say the rear facing camera main camera was not as shabby as i thought i don't have the original oneplus not but i felt that the camera performance was better than the original nod what i'll try to do is i'll try to actually uh take camera samples with the v what do you say some of the other smartphones in this price range and then we'll compare the camera i'll do that later on so stay tuned to my channel but now moving to some of the shortcomings that i have noticed on this smartphone is that and i don't like that and the first thing is that plastic body i don't get me wrong uh a plastic body is fine but this could have been done better as i've told you and i missed that uh with most of the oneplus devices you used to get that glass back that is not there uh even moving to the camera we don't have optical image stabilization on this one the original node actually had that and next thing is no stereo speaker is a big bummer for a smartphone that is costing almost 25 000 in my frank opinion and i miss this alert slider and i don't know why guys uh this smartphone is giving me more vibes of oppo or real me smartphone rather than a oneplus smartphone to uh to be very frank guys apart from the oxygen os uh ui and i also don't like that no gorilla glass was given on this one and lastly let's not even talk about the 5g choke that the oneplus is playing with specifically the indian variants the international variants are getting 11 to 12 minutes or 5g but the 5g variants uh so-called 5d variants that are sold in india are just having one band of 5d so there i feel also it's a big compromise uh what i'll do is uh i'll try to i'll put my main sim on this one i'll use the smartphone uh for a couple of days or weeks and then we'll come up with my full review with the pros and cons but what do you guys feel about this not ce is one plus starting to cut too many corners or not and do you think they have finally settled with the nazi let me know in the comment section below anyways guys that's it for now thanks for watching this is ranjit and i hope to see you in my next video take care guys\n"