OnePlus has adult a serious fan following over the last couple of years, driven by their marketing and the highly attractive price of their flagship-quality products. The company is dorsum at it in 2022 with the OnePlus 5, over again attempting to degrade the incumbent champions like Samsung with the best hardware at the lowest possible price.

So let'southward talk about the basics of the OnePlus 5. Yes, information technology'southward chosen the OnePlus 5, even though last year'south model was the OnePlus 3 and 3T. It'due south not equally cheap as it one time was either. The price of the entry-level OnePlus has steadily risen, from $329 for the OnePlus two, to $399 for the OnePlus 3, now upwardly to $479 for the OnePlus 5.

The hardware is withal a collection of top-tier parts, just OnePlus now feels the need to accuse more for their handset. The OnePlus v is still cheaper than most flagship phones, though it's not as much of an outstanding value proffer equally information technology once was.

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Some aspects to the hardware accept stayed largely the aforementioned equally in the OnePlus 3T. We're still looking at a v.5-inch 1080p AMOLED brandish and roughly the aforementioned body shape. The battery seen a slight reduction from iii,400 mAh to 3,300 mAh, though the phone is now using the more efficient Snapdragon 835 SoC.

The camera organisation is 1 of the biggest upgrades, moving to an iPhone vii Plus-similar dual sensor solution.

To be more precise, it'southward not just the camera organization that OnePlus has borrowed from current-gen iPhones: the chassis is besides remarkably similar, especially the photographic camera lens and flash associates on the rear, which is near identical in shape and positioning to the iPhone seven Plus.

I guess in some respects it'south hard for phone designers to be entirely unique when most phones are similar in shape and function, merely with the OnePlus v some aspects stray too close to 'copying' territory. With that said, the OnePlus 5'due south build and design is excellent in general.

I received a 'midnight black' model to review, and I dear the matte finish OnePlus has used for their metal unibody here. It's slick, it'south resistant to fingerprints, and it simply screams quality from the moment you see and touch it. A marking of a well-congenital phone in my eyes is the seamless transition from rear shell to glass front, and the OnePlus 5 achieves this with its single piece of metal curving nicely to form the edges, earlier transitioning into the Gorilla Glass 5 front.

OnePlus has added a fair bit of polish to their flagship pattern relative to the 3T. The antenna lines are far less visible, now shifting to curves forth the meridian and bottom edges, like to many other modern phones. The edges are more than comfortably rounded, which makes it a bit easier to grip the handset, though the OnePlus 5 is just equally slim as before. I loved the design of the OnePlus 3 and 3T, but it's a step to a higher place with the new OnePlus five.

The front of the phone is identical to the OnePlus iii aside from some minor changes. OnePlus hasn't gone with an extended display, instead opting for a more traditional (and perhaps last-generation) 16:nine AMOLED at 5.5-inches in size.

The bezels on either side of the brandish are slim, which assists with the usability of the phone, though above and below y'all're stuck with massive chunks of bezel. A screen-to-trunk ratio of 73% is the aforementioned equally the OnePlus 3, and a far cry from the Galaxy S8+'s 84%. I know a lot of people aren't completely sold on alpine smartphone screens, but I similar them a lot, and prefer a taller brandish than useless bezel.

The OnePlus 5 continues to apply capacitive navigation buttons below the display, giving users the full 5.5 inches of brandish existent estate. In the middle of the two buttons, which can be customized in the software, is a fingerprint sensor, once again similar to the OnePlus three. The sensor is fast and works very well, and doubles up equally a home button without any consequence.

While the OnePlus 5 does have a speaker to a higher place the display for calls, it only uses a single speaker forth the bottom edge for sound. Several mod phones are opting to use the in-telephone call speaker in conjunction with a bottom speaker for additional audio, which does lead to a better experience while watching videos and playing games without headphones, simply not on the OnePlus 5.

One of the more than unique aspects to OnePlus handsets is the alert slider, which is establish above the volume rocker along the left edge. The slider has 3 positions, allowing users to easily switch between loud, do not disturb, and silent notification modes.

Previous OnePlus phones also had this slider, though in the past information technology switched between all notifications, priority notifications, and do not disturb. The ability to switch between loud and silent modes is far improve, making it a characteristic that I actually used oft.

Forth the bottom edge is where you lot'll find the key ports: a USB-C port configured for just USB 2.0, and a three.5mm headphone jack.

One of the OnePlus 5's main competitors, the Xiaomi Mi 6, omitted the headphone jack for no expert reason, so it's great how you can use the OnePlus 5 with wired headphones without a dongle.

A few features we come across on premium phones are not present on the OnePlus 5. The chassis is non water resistant, which yous become on the more than expensive Galaxy S8 and LG G6. The OnePlus five also doesn't come with a microSD card slot, instead opting for either 64 or 128 GB of stock-still internal NAND. Either of these is fine, and OnePlus but charges $lx for the upgrade to 128GB, which is less than about other vendors.