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00:00Hey, how's it going? Dave2D here. So the OnePlus 5T was just announced and I thought I'd just
00:08do a quick impressions video of this thing. So I've been using it for a few days, this
00:11won't be a full review obviously, but I want to share some of my thoughts of this device
00:15with you guys. So the first thing, the big thing about this phone, is the screen. It's
00:19been updated to an 18 by 9 ratio. It's a much larger screen, it's just over 6 inches, and
00:24the screen-to-body ratio is just over 80% right now. So it looks a lot more, I guess,
00:29modern over the original OnePlus 5. Not that the OnePlus 5 looked poor, but because of
00:342017's whole bezel-less smartphone influx, this just looks more up-to-date. In terms
00:39of the actual screen itself, like how useful you find it, it depends on what you use your
00:43phone for and how you like your screen. Personally, I don't love 18 by 9 screen ratios, I find
00:48them a little bit weird to me. I like my 16 by 9. Maybe I'm old school, I like my screen
00:5216 by 9, I like my laptop 16 by 9, I like my phone 16 by 9. But, you might like this.
00:58This is, this is the thing for 2017. Okay, what else has changed? The other big one is
01:04the fingerprint sensor. So this has been moved to the back now, and I've always been a big
01:08fan of fingerprint sensors on the back. I've always found it just easier to hold, you pull
01:12out of your pocket, finger's already there. When you have that fingerprint sensor on the
01:15front, like the original OnePlus 5, down at the bottom, especially because this phone
01:18is like, so sleek, it's just a top-heavy device and, not that you drop it or anything,
01:23but I've just, I don't like it as much as a back placement. I've always liked it there,
01:28and it's nice that they have it there. Now, I know some people don't like the fingerprint
01:30sensor on the back because if your phone's on the table, you can't unlock it unless you
01:34pick it up, but they actually have a face unlock this year. Which, doesn't really resolve
01:38the first thing, but I thought it'd be a good segue to talk about face unlock. Um, I gotta
01:43be honest, I thought face unlock would be bad. I thought it would just be a really kinda
01:47like, Me Too product that OnePlus would put on their phone, but I am amazed by how good
01:53it is. Now, I haven't been able to test it thoroughly in terms of like, how secure it
01:56actually is, but it is fast. Like, significantly faster than Apple's Face ID, which is weird,
02:03but at the same time, kind of expected because this thing doesn't have the, nearly like,
02:07the security in terms of like, how many facial points it's measuring. It's very, very fast.
02:11It's pretty much instant. The moment you look at your phone, the face unlocks. So, which
02:14leads me to believe that it probably has some kind of flaws to it, but if you use it
02:19as kind of like a secondary security device, I think it's not bad. But, I do want to test
02:23this thing out more thoroughly over time. The other thing that's changed is the camera.
02:27So, the OnePlus 5 originally launched with a telephoto lens. This is now no longer a
02:32telephoto lens. It's the same kind of focal length, but this lens is actually supposed
02:35to help with low light photography. Now, I don't miss the lack of telephoto lens at all,
02:40because I never use that stuff, but I do wish it was a wide angle. Unfortunately, it's not.
02:45I am interested to see how this thing performs in low light, because this thing was never bad.
02:49Like, the OnePlus 5 was never really bad at low light. So, I don't know. This might seem
02:54promising. I will be covering that in my full review later on. Um, the thing that hasn't
03:00changed, which I thought was surprising, was the battery. So, it's still a 3300 mAh battery,
03:04which, I don't know. I don't know how I feel about that. I mean, it's the same chassis size,
03:09but because the screen is larger, and it's like the same brightness as the OnePlus 5,
03:13I'm assuming this somehow draws more power than the original screen. So,
03:17wouldn't the battery life be reduced, maybe? I'm not sure. Now, Dash Charge, these devices,
03:23if they're still in the frame, I mean, this is one of the best things about the OnePlus 5 system.
03:28I think it's, what, 30 minutes for a 60% charge? You can't go wrong with that. Now, overall,
03:32the phone hasn't changed all that much. It's not like massive upgrades or anything. It's a nice
03:36refresh. Same processor, same battery, just a little bit better all around. Now, the best part
03:42about it all is that the price hasn't changed. This thing launches at $500, which is the same
03:46price as the original OnePlus 5. I think it goes for sale on November 21st. So, yeah, if you want
03:52to check it out, I'll leave a link below. Hope you guys enjoyed this video. Thumbs if you liked
03:55it. Subs if you loved it. See you guys next time. Oh yeah, if you're wondering what these are,
03:59these are the cases. And I didn't open them because I'm not much of a case person. I don't
04:03love the red. I also don't love the wood, which is two of the cases. The carbon fiber looks pretty
04:07cool. It's just not something I would rock on my phone personally. But the sandstone, which is like
04:12the original OnePlus kind of texture, I like that, but I'm just not a big fan of cases.