The new OnePlus 5T is an excellent smartphone, but thing about it stands out from the rest — its $500 price.
That amount is actually near the top of what OnePlus has charged for its past smartphones. But the price is hundreds of dollars cheaper than that of many other top-of-the-line devices. Indeed, many of the latest flagship smartphones, including Apple’s iPhone X and Samsung’s Galaxy Note 8, cost more than $900.
Given that, you could be forgiven for thinking OnePlus made some serious compromises with the 5T to get its price so comparatively low. But you would be wrong. While the 5T does pose some trade-offs, they aren’t truly meaningful. And I’d recommend the new phone even if it cost as much as its rivals.
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The OnePlus 5T looks great.
Design-wise, the 5T doesn’t out. But that’s a good thing. It includes most of the latest design features of other contemporary phones, including narrow top and bottom borders around its screen and a metallic back. Combined, those elements make for a minimalistic, almost generic, design. It’s functional, not flashy.
What is noticeable, though, is just how thin the 5T is compared to other top Android phones. On paper, the 7.3mm thick 5T may not seem that much thinner than Google’s 7.9mm Pixel 2 XL or Samsung’s 8.6mm Galaxy Note 8. But those fractions of a millimeter do make a noticeable difference.
That thinness combined with its light weight make the 5T supremely comfortable to use.
The 5T’s screen is great, especially considering the device’s price.
The 5T’s display is on par with those of other top Android smartphones. It has a 6-inch AMOLED screen with a 18:9 aspect ratio. That’s more elongated than the typical smartphone screen from as recently as last year.
Some spec-scrutinizers may think the 1080p resolution on the 5T’s display doesn’t match up well with the 1440p resolution offered on most other Android flagship devices. But you’d be hard-pressed to notice much of a difference when actually comparing the phones side-by-side.
The 5T’s display is beautiful. Its vibrant colors, and brightness and contrast levels equal those of displays on phones that cost $350 more.
The phone’s performance is stellar.
Hiding underneath the 5T’s minimalist outer shell you’ll find specs that are as good or better than those of most of its rivals.
Like many of its newest competitors, the 5T includes Qualcomm’s powerful Snapdragon 835 processor. But it has more memory than most of its rivals. Most top Android smartphones come with 4GB of RAM. By contrast, the base model of the 5T has 6GB and the top model has a whopping 8GB.
The more memory a device has, the faster it can typically switch between apps. And the 5T’s extra RAM may make a difference if you customize your phone with software that offers a greater range of Android design and setting options.
I’ve been testing the higher-end model of the 5T, which costs $560 and comes with 128GB of storage and 8GB of RAM. I actually haven’t noticed much of a difference in performance between it and the Pixel 2 XL, which has the same processor and half the RAM.
But I’m not going to complain about the extra memory, especially given that it’s included in the 5T’s sub-$600 price.
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Source: Tech Insdier