After the first glance at the OnePlus 5 that we will think it looks alike not its previous generation of OnePlus 3 or OnePlus 3T, but the iPhone 7 Plus and OPPO R11. But like the iPhone 6s on the iPhone 6, although the first look of OnePlus 5 looks a bit familiar, when you really use it, you will find that it is a phone that"everywhere are different".

OnePlus 5 Smartphone Review

The same upper and lower of the "U-shaped antenna", the same horizontal line in the upper left corner of the machine to highlight the dual camera, the same main black color, and even almost the same position as the iPhone 7 Plus of the flash, noise reduction microphone and Brand logo etc. When you first see it, it is difficult for you not to think of iPhone 7 Plus. But on the other hand, when you hold it in your hand, you will feel that these two phones actually have a big difference.

OnePlus 5 Smartphone Review

OnePlus pay much attention on polishing the ridge line at the intersection of the box and the back cover. In OnePlus 5 the polished ridge has been retained which is also applied on the OnePlus 3.

OnePlus 5 Smartphone Review

Seeing from the side that the OnePlus 5 become thinner(probably only less than 3 mm) because of its back cover on both sides of the curvature is bigger than OnePlus 3 and the overall thickness of the phone has slightly reduced. This design not only allows OnePlus 5 to look visually thinner, but the narrower frame also allows the user to feel thinner when using the phone.

OnePlus 5 Smartphone Review

In addition, the upper and lower sides of the left and right sides of the phone, the ridge line of the OnePlus 5 will gradually cover the edge of the back cover, which is the obvious difference between the OnePlus 5 and OnePlus 3 in the appearance. The advantage of doing so is to make the phone of the box and the back cover more seamlessly together, and make the phone look more thin at some angles. This is why in the conference of the OnePlus 5 that the phone looks so thin.

OnePlus 5 Smartphone Review

Between the camera and the top of the antenna, there is the NFC antenna of the OnePlus 5, which is about 1 mm of the injection area. The design itself should look good, and at the first glance it is more beautiful than OnePlus 3 or 3T. But in order to make the normal use of NFC antenna, it add a point in the moddle of the circle of metal wrapped in the camera, which is not looks so "elegant", which result in we regard it as a defect when we just get it.

OnePlus 5 Smartphone Review

In the front of the phone, there is not big difference between the OnePlus 5 and OnePlus 3. Both are equipped with a 5.5-inch screen and a front solid-state fingerprint, and the borders of the OnePlus 5 are a little narrower. In the front of the 2.5D glass cover (Corning gorilla 5) and one metal back cover, it also add a plastic ring as a buffer that the plastic ring and 2.5D glass edge are basically on the same level, which makes that there will not have the feeling of uneven when the edge is sliding in the hand.

OnePlus 5 Smartphone Review

OnePlus 5 is a 5.5-inch AMOLED screen, the resolution is still 1080p, sub-pixel arrangement is also affecting the delicate degree of Pentile, and is still PWM dimming. It seems from the parameters point of view that its screen is the same as the OnePlus 3 / 3T. In fact, the information from the AIDA64 and other app found that its panel model is Samsung s6e3fa5, which is exactly the same as the OnePlus 3T.

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Except the sRGB, OnePlus 5 this time in the setup menu also add a DCI-P3 mode, which is applied on the Apple's iPhone 7, iPad Pro, the new MacBookPro and other products of color gamut. In addition, except from the conventional display mode, it also joined a special "reading mode", and the general principle is through the AMOLED screen to simulate a reading feeling that is similar to the e-book perception (color temperature warming, black and white), and the user can select some app to opperate or can also open the whole, just according to the hobby of the user.

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As for the hardware, it no accident to the heap of the material to the heap, including Snapdragon 835,8GBLPDDR4 memory, UFS2.1 dual-channel flash memory, and a variety of running points see picture 9.

OnePlus 5 Smartphone Review

In the situation of opening microblogging, WeChat or even its own phone, information and other app that it can easily reach 8 core full open, 4 small nuclear is 1.9GHz, and the 4 nuclear is 2.45GHz. This is the one only after Nubia Z17, which can really perform excellent as the Snapdragon 835 mobile phone.

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OnePlus 5 this time closely followed by the tide, using a rear dual camera design. The main camera is 16 million pixels, sensor model for the Sony IMX398 (1 / 2.8 inch, 1.12 micron), supporting dual-core focus, lens aperture f / 1.7, no optical image stabilization. In addition, it also equipped with a 20 million pixel telephoto head, sensor model for the Sony IMX350, aperture f / 2.6, also with no optical image stabilization.

At present, based on the two-core design of the two core functions are zoom and background blur, these two functions are also available for OnePlus 5, but the methods are not the same as the mainstream program. The most popular dual-camera zoom program is the iPhone 7 Plus as the representative of the "1 wide-angle +1 telephoto" program, but OnePlus 5 of this " Telephoto "equivalent focal length at 40 mm while the iPhone 7 Plus equivalent focal length reach to 56 mm.

In the zoom process, OnePlus 5 in 1 times to 1.5 times use the main camera to cut, 1.6 times to switch to this is not too long "telephoto head." In contrast, iPhone 7 Plus in 1 times to 1.9 times use the wide-angle head to cut, while 2 times will be replaced by telephoto head. But the same as the iPhone 7 Plus, the aperture of OnePlus 5 is only f/ 2.6 telephoto head that in the low light the imaging is relatively poor, and when the light of the outside world is not well that the system will directly turn off it.

OnePlus 5 Smartphone Review

In actual use, its zoom also reached a good level with the situation of good light during the day that in the 2 times the state can still maintain a very good picture resolution, and the overall performance is not inferior to the iPhone 7 Plus.

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OnePlus 5 in the open background blur, the wide-angle head will be collected to cut the screen to close to the perspective of another telephoto head, and then use the telephoto head to collect the picture to assist the virtual. As a result of using a large aperture, better image quality of the wide-angle head, making the background blur function is still available in low light, and the disadvantage is the loss of a certain degree of resolution. From the picture of 13.1 and 13.2 we can See that in the effect of blurring, the performance of OnePlus 5 in the domestic dual camera mobile phone is pretty good.

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Thanks to the dual-core focusing capability of the IMX398, the focus performance of the OnePlus 5 is improved compared to OnePlus 3 and OnePlus 3T. Hydrogen OS3.5 comes with the camera app interface is very simple, but the function is rich, including 4K recording, professional mode, delay, slow motion, panoramic and the HQ mode applied on the OnePlus 3 also has been retained, but still can not keep with the HDR together. Here's a look about the photos taken by OnePlus 5.

The battery capacity OnePlus 5 is 3300 mAh, which is clearly not big, but slightly higher than OnePlus 3 while it is 3000 mAh, even a little smaller than OnePlus 3T while it is 3400 mAh. Of course, taking into account the thin body, this capacity is not small that it can keep working for a day with the similar use strength. That is to say that the performance of the OnePlus 5 is better than other phones, which should be mainly due to the energy consumption that the Snapdragon 835 Soc is better than Snapdragon 820 or Snapdragon 821 and the relatively power-saving 1080p screen, so the life becomes better when the battery capacity has not improved a lot.

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As for charging, there is no change between OnePlus 5, OnePlus 3 and OnePlus 3T that it is still uses 5V, 4A (20W) Dash flash charging large current program and the charging head can use as the OPPO VOOC flash head. After the test that it takes about 70 minutes to charge it full with the situation of no electricity left. In addition, due to the use of low-voltage high-current fast charge program, the charging power heating is only a half compared to the Qualcomm QC3.0 and other high-pressure program.

OnePlus 5 Smartphone Review

As for the system, from the system app icon, drop-down notification, set the menu, animation to hydrogen OS3.5 that is the same as the native Android. In the default desktop, hydrogen OS3.5 is similar to Google's Pixel Launcher design that can slide all the programs on the desktop. But perhaps in order to take care of the habit of domestic hydrogen OS old users, in the system set up menu,it deliberately added a "default desktop" option.

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Another worth mentioning function is that in the set "button" option, you can set the long press operation to the payment of WeChat or Alipay, and in any interface under the long press can be transferred out the interface of the payment,which is very convenient.

OnePlus 5 Smartphone Review

There are many small details, including the front solid fingerprints, the surface cover for the ceramic material and the front panel has a certain color difference, except use the three touch entities button on the bottom, can also be transferred in the settings Screen virtual button and the side of the three-stage switch, you can quickly switch ring, mute, do not interfere with the model.

Of course, there are many functions that are the same as the most mobile phones, such as 3.5 mm headphone jack, bluetooth 5.0, USB-C interface, etc.

From the evolution of the ridge line to the process and the details of the optimization, to the amazing running speed and balanced performance of the dual camera. Comparing to the OnePlus 3 and the OnePlus 3T that the OnePlus 5 has upgrade almost in all aspects, but also the price of it. The Lava version with 6GB +64GB is sold 2999 yuan, and the star black version with 8GB + 128GB is 3499 yuan, which is lower than the US $ 479 and 539 US dollars, but a little expensive than the OnePlus 3T while it is 2699 yuan (64GB ) and 2999 yuan (128GB).