#OnePlus5 Best value for money phone in the market, starts at just Rs 32999
Review courtesy The Verge
Specs:
Basic Parameters
Dimensions
154.2 x 74.1 x 7.25 mm
Weight
153g
Material
Anodized Aluminum
Color
Midnight Black / Slate Gray
Operating System
OxygenOS based on Android™ Nougat
CPU
Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 835 (Octa-core, 10nm, up to 2.45GHz)
RAM
6/8GB LPDDR4X
Storage
64/128GB UFS 2.1 2-LANE
Notification Light
RGB LED notification light
Vibration
Haptic vibration motor
Sensors
Fingerprint, Hall, Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Proximity,
RGB Ambient Light Sensor, Electronic Compass, Sensor Hub
Ports
USB 2.0, Type-C, Support USB Audio
Dual nano-SIM slot
3.5mm audio jack
Battery
3300 mAh (non-removable)
Dash Charge (5V 4A)
Audio
Bottom-facing speaker
3-microphone with noise cancellation
Support AANC
Dirac HD Sound®
Dirac Power Sound®
Display:
Size: 5.5 inches
Resolution: 1080P Full HD (1920 x 1080 pixels) 401ppi
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Type: Optic AMOLED
Rear Camera Wide-angle
Sensor: Sony IMX 398
Megapixels: 16
Pixel Size: 1.12 µm
EIS: Yes
Autofocus: DCAF
Aperture: f/1.7
Rear Camera Telephoto
Sensor: Sony IMX 350
Megapixels: 20
Pixel Size: 1.0 µm
Autofocus: PDAF
Aperture: f/2.6
Flash
Dual LED Flash
Video
4K resolution video at 30fps
1080P resolution video at 60fps
1080P resolution video at 30fps
720P resolution video at 30fps
Slow Motion: 720p videos at 120fps
Time-Lapse
Rear Features
Portrait, Pro Mode, Panorama, HDR, HQ,
Dynamic Denoise, Clear Image, RAW Image
Front Camera
Sensor: Sony IMX 371
Megapixels: 16
Pixel Size: 1.0 µm
EIS: Yes
Autofocus: Fixed Focus
Aperture: f/2.0
Front Video
1080P resolution video at 30fps
720P resolution video at 30fps
Time-Lapse
Front Features
HDR, Screen Flash, Smile Capture, Face Beauty
In its four years of existence, OnePlus has fashioned itself as the flagship phone killer jumping out of the midrange bushes. Every OnePlus device to date has been defined by premium specs at bargain prices, but that changes with today’s OnePlus 5. Starting at $479 with 64GB of storage, this new flagship can no longer be mistaken for a super-specced midrange handset. And even though it doesn’t cost quite as much as a mainstream mainstay like the Galaxy S8, that’s exactly the sort of phone it will be compared against. This is the priciest OnePlus device yet, and it’s falling in line with its more traditional competition: you pay more to get more.
There’s no questioning the specs of this phone: it’s powered by the top-of-the-line Snapdragon 835 processor; comes with a combo of either 6GB of RAM and 64GB of storage or a laptop-rivaling 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage; and it has a total of 52 megapixels of image-taking prowess between its three cameras.
What I see when I look at the 2017 edition of the OnePlus flagship is a necessary maturation and refinement. The ruthless cost cutting of the past was never going to be sustainable, and now that the company is facing the exigencies of being a global operation with costs that go beyond basic distribution and marketing, OnePlus is growing up in both price and quality.
But as it develops into a new kind of phone, the OnePlus 5 is also starting to feel divorced from its predecessors, inheriting only the physical switch for alert modes and the Dash Charge rapid-charging technology. It now looks like a OnePlus 3 that’s put on an iPhone 7 Plus costume: still roughly the same proportions as before, but now with more rounded edges, curved antenna lines, and the same dual-camera setup as the iPhone. It’s more than a passing resemblance, and it frankly makes me uneasy.
Until today, OnePlus could confidently say it was different from all the other Chinese upstarts that, consciously or not, aped the iPhone to a point of losing their own identity. OnePlus phones always had character, rooted in no small part in their market-breaking low prices. But the 128GB Midnight Black phone I’m reviewing today costs $539, which is a stone’s throw away from Samsung’s Galaxy S prices. Without the unique selling point of massively undercutting everyone, and with the baggage of looking like a cynical iPhone rip-off, can the OnePlus 5 retain the small-company charm that’s made its maker popular all around the world? I’m not so sure.
Article Courtesy The Verge
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