Is the OnePlus 6 Worth It? #Helpful Post

hey guys Boston we are almost halfway

through 2018 which means that flagship

phones are coming and to start out this

new wave we have the brand new one plus

six so in a world of thousand-dollar

flagships the idea that you can pick up

a phone like the one plus six for

starting at five hundred thirty dollars

means that you're really getting a lot

of the same specs a lot of the same

features but at a much lower price but

as always the question is is it worth

it's so what we have here is the mid

spec model so now is this going to have

a gigabytes of RAM that's also going to

have 128 gigs of storage this is in the

midnight black color and if we remove a

little sticker here you can see that is

well

Meli incredibly shiny but the last times

this will ever be completely perfect

until I get my grimy fingerprints on it

so if you put the one plus six side by

side with the five T one of the main

things you'll notice is that instead of

the metal bag that they've had for quite

a few years instead we do have that all

Gorilla Glass 5 look now it is going to

be slightly tapered on the back and

honestly it kind of feels nice sort of

similar to what you would find on

something like the Galaxy s8 or Galaxy S

9 before we get too far into it though I

want to take a look inside the box and

what we're going to find is not only our

USB C to USB a cable but also view

rather large - charger something that

oneplus has been known for for quite a

few years now is the idea that they have

some of the fastest charging phones out

there alright the one plus sakes and the

first thing you'll see is the notch yes

my friends like basically all

smartphones in 2018 the oneplus has

gotten on to the notch train but I will

say they've actually done a little bit

differently here so the first thing

you'll notice is that the notch is

actually one of these smallest that

you'll see most of that is because it's

really not a whole lot here besides the

front-facing camera the light sensor as

well as your earpiece but something else

to pay attention to is how small the

rest of the bezels are so there's

basically nothing on these sides of the

display and even the chin is going to be

really really minimal where this is

really noticeable is when you put it

side-by-side with the 1 + 5 t even

though the overall footprint of the

phones are almost identical what you're

getting here is going to be a little bit

of a larger display because you don't

have that sort of forehead and the chin

is going to be smaller and because of

that you're going from a 6 inch display

to a 6.3 in that same size body this guy

is rocking a 6.3 inch 20 to 80 by 1080

AMOLED display now

going to be a slightly unusual 19 by 9

aspect ratio but what it does mean is

it's not going to be the most high-risk

screen in the world you are going to be

getting something that again covers

pretty much the entire front of the

phone now generally speaking I feel like

a 1080p resolution it's pretty solid on

a phone this size however because it is

M OLED if you do look up close you're

going to see some slight jaggies it's

not gonna be quite as sharp as something

like a galaxy s 9 screen but as soon as

you get it more than a few inches away

from your face I think it's going to be

totally solid and importantly the screen

quality itself is actually super high

with this guy so not only is the one

plus six color calibrated straight from

the factory but you also do have extra

modes inside the settings so you can set

to the default mode which to my eye is a

little bit oversaturated you also have

srgb you have DCI p3 as well as the

adaptive mode but I like going to the

custom color and just tweaking it to be

a little bit more natural so you will

see that the screen even when you do the

custom profile is going to be slightly

oversaturated that's almost more of an

OLED thing

now speaking of OLED things if you do

look at it slightly off axis you're

going to see that the viewing angles are

good but not amazing however that's

going to be pretty much any AMOLED panel

what isn't going to be quite so great is

the HDR playback this does what HDR

video however it actually does it a

little bit of a choppy rate at least on

YouTube don't get me wrong though this

is an incredibly nice display and a lot

of ways it's right up there with stuff

like the galaxy s 9 as well as the

iPhone the only thing that really holds

it back is going to be the slightly

lower resolution but long as you're sort

of at a normal viewing distance it's

really not going to be an issue

the oneplus six does still have dual SIM

card slots which is definitely

appreciated but you do not have any kind

of microsd expandable 'ti if you want

any more storage you're going to have to

buy it ahead of time what thankful it's

actually not going to be that pricey so

the base model at $530 does have 64 gigs

of storage but another $50 will bump you

up to 128 and if you want to spend

another $100 you're going to be getting

256 gigs of storage pretty reasonable in

my opinion take a look at the bottom of

the phone in addition to the USB C port

you're also going to find the headphone

jack yes my friends a high-end phone in

2018 that does come standard with a

headphone jack

one thing the oneplus six does not have

is a great speaker so like the previous

models there's only going to be a single

mono speaker that fires down it's going

to be reasonably loud it would be really

nice to join the rest of the high-end

flagships by adding a front firing

speakers up top that doubles as your

speaker grille thing whatever they call

it what I always forgive us call the

stupid uh earpiece earpiece now because

we do have a glass back the phone is

fairly slippery but there's actually

going to be a fairly hard chamfer on the

side which does kind of give you a

little bit of grip and something else

that want flow is really nailed are the

buttons this is not something I talk

about very often because well for the

most part of button is a button but not

only are they going to be pretty raised

up but they're not going to be flush at

all

but they're nicely spaced and they

actually feel really good there's this

nice tactile click and especially with

the volume rockers and as well as the

little one plus slider that will turn on

and off the mute or the vibrates which I

think feels really solid baby good job

here the fingerprint sensor around back

works just as you would expect so it is

going to be right below the camera bump

which is a little bit large on the phone

but just kind of helps you find the

fingerprint sensor and on top of that

this does also have an upgraded version

of face on lock now it's not going to be

as secure as something like the iPhone

10 but it does work pretty well so I

kind of hold it up here and hit the

button pretty much immediately unlocks

as if I didn't even have a passcode

maybe not the most secure thing in the

world it is definitely fast this is the

first time that oneplus has gone with an

all glass construction for one of their

phones it does look pretty nice and

allow them to do multiple colors the

midnight black is interesting looking

even though it is going to be super

super fingerprint tea however there are

going to be some interesting trade-offs

so yes it feels nice in the hand

especially because it is going to be

curved on back but it's not really going

to be all that unique it's very very

common for a flagship phones and even

some budget options to go with a glass

construction in 2018

now the trade-off when you go with glass

even with something high-end like this

gorilla glass five is that you're going

to be losing some durability and of

course you can get sort of micro

scratches and stuff but that can kind of

happen on any phone but the real worry

is if you drop it you could totally

shatter not only the front but also the

back of the phone the worst part is

you're really not going to be getting

anything besides the aesthetics so while

a metal phone generally will not allow

you to wireless charge because the metal

will interfere most of the time a glass

phone will however for some odd reason

oneplus decide to opt out of adding

any kind of wireless charging capability

to the one plus six sure it's got the

superfast - charging and honestly I end

up using sort of normal wired charging a

lot more than Wireless anyway well it

would be really nice to have that option

especially considering that it's not

even that expensive it's kind of weird

that they didn't include it now there is

going to be some waterproofing inside

the phone

however oneplus did not opt to do any

kind of ip67 or ip68 rating basically

what that means is that it actually

might not be that far off from something

like an iPhone or galaxy as far as being

waterproof but if you actually get it

wet and kill it it's not going to be

warranty supported so you're on your own

on that one there are some other nice

features including a full RGB

notification light as well as an ambient

display mode so like something like the

pixel or the galaxy s 9 you can see at a

quick glance your notifications and the

time and date however unlike those

phones it's not going to be always on

you're going to either have to tap the

display or actually raise it up for it

to trigger inside you're going to find

full flagship level specs so it's going

to be rocking a snapdragon 845 processor

with 8 cores as well as either 6 or 8

gigabytes of RAM depending on which

model you pick up now in the Android

space that's about as good as it gets

it's right on par with something like

the galaxy s 9 and if you look at it

side-by-side with other phones like the

iPhone as well as the 1 + 5 T it does do

a pretty solid job the performance

generally speaking is very good exactly

like you would expect with this level of

specs so the UI is going to be nice and

smooth one of the nice things is is that

with that kind of level of performance

you are going to be future-proof to some

degree especially with these kind of

graphics a lot of games in the future

should run pretty well on the oneplus 6

the 1 plus 6 is running Android 8.1 Oreo

with oxygen OS on top now it's going to

be a fairly light skin so generally

speaking one plus doesn't have a lot of

bloat and they had actually legitimately

useful features and one of which has to

do with the knotch now for some reason

you hate the look of a notch you can't

actually turn it off in the settings so

you need to do is go into the notch

display option and hit hide the notch

area what that will mean is that any

kind of app cannot actually take

advantage of that top area although

thankfully you are still going to be

able to use stuff like your status bar

and everything that's going to be tucked

up in the corner there's also going to

be a built-in reading mode so you can

turn this on for the entire OS or just

for specific apps but once you turn it

on it turns everything full grayscale

and it warms up the display just a

little bit

kind of looks like you're reading off of

a newspaper this is going to be a little

bit of a niche option but

especially you're sitting in bed late at

night you don't want to sort of sear

your eyes with super bright colors it

actually is pretty calming although you

probably wanna use this for text in that

video there's not a lot to complain

about with the software on this guy sure

you're not going to be getting Android

updates quite as fast as on a pixel but

oneplus does have a good track record

for keeping things up to date and a

reasonable sort of time frame and on top

of that you're also going to be getting

a pretty bloke free experience as far as

the cameras go while on paper looks very

similar the oneplus six has seen some

major upgrades so around back you're

still going to be getting a 16 megapixel

main sensor as well as a 20 megapixel

telephoto option but that main sensors

been upgraded with not only optical

image stabilization but it also is now

going to be a little bit larger than it

was before so if we line up a shot here

of Ken we're gonna see that not only

does the HDR immediately pop up but

something's really impressive is it it

takes pictures fast they're gonna be

using a lot of budget Android phones

that take a while this one's pretty much

instant the shots actually pretty nice

too there's a really good job of keeping

in all those highlights with HDR there's

really not anything that we're missing

so with a telephoto camera we're going

to be losing a little bit of sharpness

but I'm actually not that disappointed a

lot of times with smart phones that do

have dual cameras while the main camera

might look great a lot of times when you

switch over to the 2x zoom it doesn't

look so great but this is not that at

all so something else is the oneplus 6

has now is going to be a portrait mode

so if we switch over to it it's going to

turn the depth effect although

interesting that's actually using it on

the wide-angle camera okay let's give

this a try Oh perfect there you go a

wonderful shot of lots of Hearts behind

you Ken that's man that's a that's a

special one right there we look at the

standard portrait mode though what we're

getting here is something that looks

okay but you know it's not really that

great first of all I like it when a

portrait mode will use the telephoto

camera it's a little bit more of a

compressed focal length I guess would be

the correct phrase but this man the

edges are all just blurry no it's not

great get some good light and you can

actually get a ton of detail out of

these photos if you look up close to the

little fibers on the leaf they're super

clear and super crispy something else

I'm really appreciating with shooting

with this camera is that there's very

little latency when it comes to taking a

shot or especially when it comes to

viewing your images everything's pretty

much instance if you want to take a

couple shots quickly make sure you got

the thing and then move on right back

into the camera there's really no lag

well

going to be getting some pretty decent

slow-motion options so the oneplus six

will shoot up to 4k at 60 frames per

second and when you slow that down it

looks pretty nice but if you really want

some proper slow motion you're going to

be getting either 720p at 480 or my

personal favorite is 1080p at 240 frames

per second you're still getting decent

quality but it's going to slow down and

still give you that cool look I mean

this is cool right swishing up cameras

for a second this is what 4k video looks

like on the oneplus 6

now importantly we do have that optical

image stabilization which especially

when you're shooting 4k is super helpful

but it's pretty much useful for any kind

of smartphone video you guys can see as

we move around a little bit it should be

reasonably smooth so is the 1 plus 6

worth it's a little bit over $500 you're

getting the entire flagship experience

now yes they're going to be a couple

things missing such as the lack of

wireless charging but you consider that

this is going to cost a lot less than a

lot of other flagships that perform very

very similarly it's kind of hard to

argue that this is not the definition of

being worth it