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  • Teckk - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link

    Using the phone from just over a month - great display and battery life. Pretty impressive camera for my occasional use. The update policy changed recently if I'm not wrong, were the older phones (X, 3, 3T) supported this well with upgrades?
  • notashill - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link

    The last 2 security patches for the OP3/3T were released 4 and a half months apart. The release pace has been very inconsistent but there are a large number of betas for some reason.

    The X only got one major version upgrade... to a version that was already out before the phone was released. The 3T got 2 major version upgrades... and the first one was to a version that was already out before the phone released. Supposedly it's going to get 8.1 eventually. They did live up to the promise of releasing Nougat in 2016 by releasing it on December 31.
  • mmrezaie - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link

    I would like to see a review of software updates. I think One Plus started good but now it has even worst track record than Samsung. I think this part is more important for me rather than CPU performance which is something you get like basically every other company phones of that year.
  • notashill - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link

    They posted a Software Maintenance Schedule a few weeks ago claiming 24 months of "Regular Software Maintenance" which includes major version upgrades and bi-monthly security patches followed by another 12 months of "Software Security Maintenance" with bi-monthly security patches.

    And yet, OP3T was released November 2016 and they are not going to update it to P.
  • ACE76 - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link

    Android P isn't out yet...and its probably going to be released around September this year so expecting the 3/T to get it is stupid.
  • notashill - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link

    Obviously P isn't out yet, I did not say I was expecting them to release it before Google. They have already said they are never going to release it for the 3/3T.
  • mmrezaie - Thursday, August 2, 2018 - link

    It is stupid to not expect these companies releasing updates for their phones and turn them into paperweights.
  • WPX00 - Monday, July 30, 2018 - link

    The 3/T has just been confirmed for P.
  • notashill - Tuesday, July 31, 2018 - link

    Yes I just saw this, very happy that they changed their minds about it (they had in fact already announced that Oreo would be the last major update). I hope this is a real turnaround for the company and they start taking updates seriously because OP's hardware is great but I have been rather disappointed with their software to date.
  • SpaceRanger - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link

    Is the battery replaceable or does the back cover require surgery to remove?
  • Teckk - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link

    Battery is not user replaceable, needs surgery. Do flagships have user replaceable battery these days?
  • SpaceRanger - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link

    Sadly, no. :( I do not like the fact I can't easily replace the battery with these newer flagship phones.
  • PeachNCream - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link

    It's reasonable to assume that a glass back always implies a surgical procedure for battery replacement. User-removable panels tend to flex and are usually held in place with some sort of friction clips which just don't work when glass is selected as the material of choice.
  • James5mith - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link

    The only thing I wish for on my OP6 is the google dialer.
  • TheCurve - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link

    Great review, Andrei! Thank you!
  • Xex360 - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link

    Notch=useless phone, I still don't understand companies copying only the rubbish that comes from Apple, why don't they copy their performance, their screen quality... Etc. Worse for this phone I often found the S9 a far superior phone with much better screen and design (you get the fragility of glass but with the benefit of wireless charging), one of the best cameras out there... Etc for nearly the same price. They should get their act together and build a phone for more reasonable price and remove the stupid notch.
  • Andrei Frumusanu - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link

    As I've explained in the review, I've found the notch to not be detrimental and such a reaction seems pure overreaction.
  • Xex360 - Saturday, July 28, 2018 - link

    What bothers me the most isn't the notch as such (even though it's awful especially in person at least for me), removing jack port is just evilly stupid, but why lot of Android manufacturers copy it from Apple (small players excluded, I can see some benefits for looking like an iPhone, I yes I know Apple weren't the first to do it), why not instead (in this case) copy the X's excellent screen, wireless charging, faster experience I'm not talking about the SOC (even though Samsung should be able to compete) but by just rooting and removing some apps I made lots of Android phones much faster. Coming from OnePlus I was even more disappointed, I was waiting for some special not just copying the worse of others for a high price, especially that you can get the SO for just 30euros more.
  • timecop1818 - Sunday, July 29, 2018 - link

    > faster experience I'm not talking about the SOC (even though Samsung should be able to compete)

    because it's Android, its just garbage by design. And the real problem is software "developers" who write apps, using shitty cross-platform toolkits to run it on both apple and Android.

    you know what cross platform actually means in reality? "Shitty on every supported platform".
  • Dazedconfused - Sunday, July 29, 2018 - link

    I don't get this comment. There are more than a few comparisons between recent Android phones and the X
    in everyday use situations that show Android being at least as fast in most tasks (even with a synthetically slower SOC)
  • GREAT Expectations - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link

    Just wanna know... Did you even read the article or did you skip right to the comments?
    I'm pretty sure the author has addressed your concerns already. And I've yet to see you providing a convincing counterargument. Reading the article isn't that hard is it?
  • Xex360 - Saturday, July 28, 2018 - link

    I'm entitled to have a different opinion, and the the writer addressed the notch "problem" wasn't satisfying for me, I'm of the opinion that most phone manufacturers are just copying Apple nothing else, and copying the worst design choices from Apple and not the good/great ones.
  • markiz - Monday, July 30, 2018 - link

    Well, other than your subjective aesthetical opinion, reasonably, notch just makes sense. If status icons are moved there, that means you can get an extra line of text on the screen.
    Like, one extra email, or a message, or whatever.

    I too also hate how it looks normally, but honestly, with OLED screen, it's barely noticeable, and I do appreciate extra space. I've come around :)

    The fact that apple was first is could just be dependent on only 2 things:
    - Samsung did not want to do it
    - nobody else has scale and numbers to custom order OLED manufacturers to make special equipment to cut up their screens.
  • Teckk - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link

    S9/S9+ might be better phones no doubt, but they're not "nearly the same price".
  • markiz - Monday, July 30, 2018 - link

    Where I live, in Europe, they certainly are. It's 20€ more for S9.
  • PeachNCream - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link

    I don't see how a notch could possibly make a phone useless. They aren't appealing to me, but it seems like the rejection of the notch is based more in a dislike of Apple than a concern about functionality in a lot of cases.
  • mrochester - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link

    The notch rejection comes purely from the hipsters.
  • PeachNCream - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link

    I'm not even sure exactly what traits make someone a hipster or not, but I think people that object to notches represent a fairly broad set of demographics.
  • Flunk - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link

    I don't think there are really that many people who care about notches. But if there are, all they need to do is refuse to buy phones that have them and suddenly alternatives will appear.
  • ummduh - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link

    "mrochester - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link
    The notch rejection comes purely from the hipsters."

    I'm definitely as far from a hipster as you can get and I'm also definitely anti-notch. Unless being so anti hipster is the new hipster? Never mind, I don't want to know.

    I'm also vehemently anti on-screen buttons and want my dedicated buttons back. I don't get this new screen form factor, it doesn't help anything and removes things I value.

    I have a OP5 (not T). I like it. It's the last of the honest phones. I do miss IR blasters being in phones as well.

    The Note4 was honestly the last great perfect phone. I went back and tried to use my old one and unfortunately it is just too slow. The new versions are over priced, and over Samsung'd. (That is to say, they're too locked down now.)
  • jospoortvliet - Thursday, August 2, 2018 - link

    On screen buttons, really? the 90's want you back... Nokia n9 and Palm WebOS showed the future years ago, it is a bloody shame it took Apple to bring it to Android. Very disappointing to notice so clearly that Google only innovated when forced, even though the better paradigm was already shown to work and just lying there to be adopted..
  • Thefinn - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link

    Yeah, notch makes it useless. I don't think so.
    What are you smoking? It's actually a great phone, but to each his own
  • amosbatto - Wednesday, August 22, 2018 - link

    The problem with the notch is that it gives less space for the notification icons, which I find useful. Even worse is that 19.5:9 screens leave no room for front-facing speakers. Decent audio is far more important than more vertical pixels which I will never use. Also, the smaller the bezel, the less protection for the screen. Of course, when you make phones entirely wrapped in glass, you basically are inviting for it to be cracked. Unfortunately, nobody makes a decent phone like the LG V20 anymore, that is durable and designed to survive drops.
  • 128bit - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link

    I'm using s9 plus and iphone x and nope screen of s9 plus might be has higher resoulation and excellent brghtiness, but still not as good as iphone x OLED there's black crash at low brightness even though its made by samsung. Apple knows how to calibrate there screen very well and notch isn't on iphone x like android phones wanna be iphone.
  • id4andrei - Saturday, July 28, 2018 - link

    The problem you're referring to is an Android problem and that is the lack of a proper color management system. Samsung has color profiles corresponding to different standards such as sRGB or AdobeRGB built in but it's not a full solution.
  • Skelter - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link

    After one month with the phone, I don't get the notch hate that seems to be trending in all tech related sites. There's really no downside to it. It hides on its own when needed and gives you extra screen space over what would have been otherwise a bezel. If you really hate how it looks, you can just hide it and the device will look like it was made with the same bezels the S9+ has.

    The only downsides the phone has, in my opinion, are the speaker (not bad, but not flagship worthy either), the glass back without wireless charging (not a deal breaker at all, but it would have been nice to get either Wireless Charging or a tougher design) and the camera (which is, at least since the last update improved its quality, almost as good as Pixel 2/iPhone X/S9).

    By the way, I wouldn't say Samsung's S9 has "nearly the same price". Even if you buy the cheapest S9 model Samsung is offering, there's still a $140 difference. Maybe it's worth it for some, since its screen is the best there is (even if it is smaller in the basic S9 model), its camera is slightly better and it has Wireless Charging and an IP68 rating. But that doesn't make OP6 a bad choice at all.
  • johnhopf - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link

    Your review is great, but I really object to this kind of camera evaluation.
    The only way you can take a decent landscape shot with the sky in it, is if the sun is setting behind you so the sky in front of you is dark and the scenery is illuminated.
    When you take a photo of midday sky and trees underneath it, the sky is probably 50 times brighter than the trees, and the only way to bring them in line is insane over-the-top "hdr" that gives the whole image the same mezzo-blah brightness.
    I'd recommend looking at real art photography for a while, to see how the shadows actually clip into blackness. My favorite photographer lately is Jay Maisel, and he has lots of good photos on his website.
  • Andrei Frumusanu - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link

    > When you take a photo of midday sky and trees underneath it, the sky is probably 50 times brighter than the trees, and the only way to bring them in line is insane over-the-top "hdr" that gives the whole image the same mezzo-blah brightness.

    > I'd recommend looking at real art photography for a while

    Sorry to be blunt here, but most people don't care about art photography. The notion that you can only take a picture with the sun behind you is also outdated, the average person is not going to follow any of that advice. On the day I took those pictures I had dozens of tourists around me taking the pictures with their smartphones, for those people, they expect the smartphone to just deal with the circumstances.

    The point of these comparisons is to put the phone into difficult situations and see how they behave. Computational photography is very much a thing and it opens up new avenues. Look at the bridge photo of the P20Pro - it manages to do that because it has the technology in the sensor to do a different exposure for each physical pixel in the binned logical pixel, resulting in outstanding DR. Also as demonstrated by the OP6 here and some other phones, the results can actually be quite good if the HDR is well tuned.

    If one phone manages to do well then it means it raises the bar in terms of what's to be expected of other flagship devices in general.
  • FunBunny2 - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link

    if memory serves, Maisel has been using a view camera and contact printing for rather a long time. in any case, the dynamic range of film, using zone method, beats any minuscule phone sensor by a light year or so. but, just like the Kodak of the 1940s, phone snapshots aren't intended to be anything more than momentos. even a $100 digital camera will do better.
  • Impulses - Tuesday, July 31, 2018 - link

    I'd be surprised if any camera <$400 did better than a phone tbh, under that price bracket they'd feature the same miniscule sensors and often slower lenses (possibly better corrected and definitely able to stop down, but it's debatable how much you really need to stop down for DoF with these small sensors).

    Meanwhile smart HDR/stacking algorithms will definitely give phones an edge, these modes tend to suck even in high end cameras and photography enthusiasts just do it manually in post. Past $400 or so cameras definitely jump ahead tho, at that point you can easily buy something with a 1" (Canon G9 X) or even 4/3 sensor (Panasonic GX850).

    Obviously these are not exactly $400 phones either, even the OP has blown significantly over that threshold, but still... I'm all in favor of suggesting people look at cameras rather than side-grading phones for marginal gains tho. I was impressed by my Pixel but I didn't buy it for the camera and still vastly prefer my dedicated cameras.
  • Total Meltdowner - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link

    Art Photography? I'm not an unemployed liberal. I like phones to snap photos of family and friends doing things worth remembering.
  • Cooe - Saturday, July 28, 2018 - link

    Jesus Christ...
  • Quantumz0d - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link

    Starting with the wireless charging changing ergonomics and thickness, I refute. Look up at LG V30 - 7.3mm zero bump no notch. Has Qnovo on top of it, looks better made better with MIL spec. IP68 certified as well. OnePlus failed at Metal design with signal flaw with OP3/T and they cheaped out with glass just for marketing this time. About time when they ditch the jack. OPPO started that with their feeble built Find X.

    Too soft on Oneplus and other companies notch "there's really nothing controversial" its downright copied from Apple except that keeping the bottom bezel for no reason except to make it a marketing trash. Blacking it out for what ? Breaking the Android apps, but like all mainstream brainwashers Google also decided to add it with utter shameless act. Seems like even at AT no one cares about originality or engineering anymore. Shame

    No mention of absence of Video out, Netflix certification. Same battery capacity since OP3T. And Axon 7 from 2016 is able to sell a 1440P AMOLED panel at same/less cost with more features like Stereo front facing. AKM DAC wgich works with Lineage. While OP cuts corners at all specs just increase the RAM and Memory that's it. Pixel 2XL shreds OP in speed with low RAM, not against it but this phone is hot garbage.

    Oh this phone doesn't have USB3.0 either. CEO says no one uses when we have LTE pure BS. Why are they incl the high capacity UFS then ? Rubbish selfless corp. After being burned at the Op3 promised blobs and the worst part of this phone not mentioned, the T variant. Which makes the Op6 users look like fools, why don't this get mentioned anywhere ? Is OP paying that hefty ? Guess so since they skimp so much and price increase..its a disgrace.

    Sultanxda left OP because they never bother to fix the camera or treat it as some high profile golden IP, or the 821 3T high clock crash. Dash charging, another proprietary technology, no way you can find replacement parts for this phone because 5-6Month EOL is extreme ripping.
  • dshess - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link

    I wish one of the second-tier vendors would commit to long-term hardware support. At $600 (or $800), the story is when they manage to make a phone that sucks - but making an excellent phone for $250 is a great story, especially if you can still purchase the same device a few years later. It's like nobody is even trying to take on the iPhone.
  • icalic - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link

    Hi @Andrei Frumusanu,

    why no more gfxbench manhattan es 3.1 / metal test for battery life and final frame rate @ 200 nits?

    i think that test is good for us to look GPU efficiency on every device.

    for oneplus 6, i suspect high sustained gfxbench followed by higher power consumption than other snapdragon 845 devices.
  • Andrei Frumusanu - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link

    Power consumption between devices doesn't really change. In this regard I'm keeping the power measurements to the initial SoC reviews of the first devices. The power I measured on the OP6 was not much different than on the S9+ which is covered here: https://www.anandtech.com/show/12520/the-galaxy-s9...

    The final frame rate benchmark has been superseded by the sustained performance measurements across all 3D workloads, so there's no need for a separate metric.

    As for battery measurement in 3D workloads, I think the GFXBench test as an actual *battery* test didn't really convey a lot other than a maximum rundown test. I think having a phone loop in an actual commonly released game would be better representative. As a reminder, the SoC's power consumption will differ greatly at different frequencies and real games will be Vsync capped at 60fps, so in actual use-cases the MH3.1 battery test didn't really show a representation of such use-cases. Currently I'm still thinking about a way to do this better and hopefully the methodology will evolve, but for now it's as it is due to practical reasons.
  • arvindgr - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link

    In OnePlus 3 review, AT included note on USB, that they're still using USBv2! But 4 generations later OP6 still packs that same USBv2 tech. Also with Oppo proprietary charging tech, they are least bothered about USB-PD standards which its SoC supports via QCv4. Why such tech implementations weren't discussed at all..?
  • Andrei Frumusanu - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link

    USB 3.0 has issue with creating radio frequency interference in the 2.4GHz band which requires vendors to do a lot more engineering in terms of shielding, that's why a *lot* of phones don't support it.

    In regards to fast charging techniques - first of all ever since I came back to AT I haven't had the opportunity to re-test all the devices over the last year that we were missing data on. Secondly I didn't prioritise this as much because I feel after 5V/2A/10W which essentially every device nowadays supports, faster charging rates become diminishingly relevant.

    Batteries are supposed to be charged at a maximum of 1C, for the OP6 that's for example 3.3A since the capacity is 3.3Ah. A 10W charger is already 2.38A, going to 15W is getting near the limit. Devices nowadays also have like 10 different charging profiles depending on what power supply you connect to it, so while true we can resume testing the stock charger, but again in reality how representative is that really for most people, especially among AT readers?
  • Quantumz0d - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link

    Appreciate the response for this. I always wonder what's the reason behind cutting costs for USB spec. And about the Dash charge, it's proprietary you are stuck with using the accessories from OP site only and usable with their HW only. Its not about speed its about adopting standards like USB PD or QC.
  • Andrei Frumusanu - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link

    > Its not about speed its about adopting standards like USB PD or QC.

    I think that's a weird attitude to take. QC or PD are just ways to achieve speed. A 10W 2A non-standard charger will charge the same as a 10W QC, PD, Dash or whatever charger. Electrons don't care about the standard.
  • Icehawk - Saturday, July 28, 2018 - link

    Ahhhhh. That’s why phones aren’t USB3, ok I always wondered why not but never actually researched why.
  • jcc5169 - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link

    Is One-Plus even available in the US market?
  • PeachNCream - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link

    That's a nice phone! I'd prefer the addition of a microSD slot by maybe adding the capability to one of the SIM slots (I've seen a few dual SIM phones offer up that option) since removable storage is nice to have if you're moving from one phone to another. In this case, there's the potential to lose quite a bit of data if the OP6 dies suddenly. The price increase for storage capacity is VERY reasonable as well. It's way outside of my price range for something I carry with me on a daily basis though. There's just too many day-to-day bumps and knocks around along with the risk of loss or theft that have me convinced that it's not worth the price of entry to get something above the bottom feeders like the $5.29 new Huawei I just picked up last week. Phones, in my mind, are disposable devices so low-cost is the way to go.
  • eastcoast_pete - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link

    Nice review, Andrei! Question: I may have overlooked it, but this phone is NOT water- or dust proof, at least as far as I can tell, correct? That is a major minus point for a flagship phone in my book, as it "breaks" the deal/compromise of sealed battery, but IP67 or 68 water and dust proofing. Hey, even Apple came around to that view eventually. Here, we get the worst of both worlds, no user-replaceable battery, no SD card slot, and no water and dust proofing.

    Different question @ Andrei: are all benchmark tests for phones conducted at about the same room temperature? I assume they are, but, if they are not, that would add a major variable. Heat dissipation is just so much easier when in a room at, let's say, 20 C, versus one at 30 C (and we are having hot summers this year). And, circling back to my comment about water proofing, I imagine it's harder for a fully sealed phone (like the majority of current flagship phones, i.e. S9, S9+, V30/35, Experia Z etc.) to dissipate heat than it is for phones that aren't fully sealed up. Any comments? Thanks!
  • Andrei Frumusanu - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link

    It's not IP certified but as you may have read in some teardowns it does have many of the protections that are usually found in IP68 phones. I guess it could survive accidental water situations.

    The sustained are done in constant-ish (21+- 2°C) temperature, yes. I don't think IP proofing has any effect on thermals, the ingress points are irrelevant to temperature. Most phone's thermals are determined by the mid-frame build and how it's able to dissipate heat over its whole footprint to the screen and back.
  • 128bit - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link

    Never like chinese phones there phones looks good, but there quality overall not that good same like there cars and by the way this phone overheating.
  • Dr. Swag - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link

    Great article, but could you take care to proofread a bit better? There's tons of grammar mistakes (mostly missed commas) all over the place.
  • Dr. Swag - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link

    For the benchmarks, did you test for benchmark cheating at all?
  • tsk2k - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link

    Yes! Thank you so much Andrei and Anandtech, this is the only proper way to review a mobile phone.
    The web tests and frame drop testing is amazing, finally a way to quantify what I've been saying for years.
  • shoreview - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link

    Too bad that they refuse to put Verizon Band 13 LTE in there. It's pointless crippling of the phone. Like the missing ex-Nextel CDMA band that Sprint uses.

    Any insight on why this is? Did Verizon and Sprint actively intervene to keep OnePlus off their networks? In any case I've been on Android from the start but the support situation and security update situation are leading me to look more and more at iPhone. Which won't come easy; the USB lockdown on iOS and certain aspects of the OS are annoying to say the least. But this was one of my last hopes for replacing my Verizon-supplied Note 4 with another Android and it has been dashed. Getting a non-carrier-branded Samsung is a non-starter until they start taking long-term security support seriously; even Google Pixel is short of Apple standards by a year or two.
  • Lau_Tech - Saturday, July 28, 2018 - link

    Thank you for the review Andrei! I think at this price point the oneplus 6's main problem is the lack of carrier support.
    In my country you can get an S9 for cheaper than a one plus 6 (with a carrier plan.)... Only people migrating to sim-only plans will still find the one plus 6 to be an attractive option.
  • Lau_Tech - Saturday, July 28, 2018 - link

    Also would recommend some analysis of the fingerprint/face scanner ease of use Andrei... Something to consider for future reviews.
  • diamondbackbilliards - Saturday, July 28, 2018 - link

    More Like IphoneX but I hope beats the Iphone on multitasking level. as iphone can handle no lag even if you left 30 apps open. heavy or light.
  • djayjp - Saturday, July 28, 2018 - link

    Yes, buy a oneplus or a Huawei and have your data tracked (and likely hacked) by the Chinese government.
  • PeachNCream - Saturday, July 28, 2018 - link

    There's no evidence that phones made by Chinese companies are actually being used for spying at least not outside routine data collection inherent to all Google powered devices. The UA government has an advisory publication out discouraging their use as a precaution where government furnished cellular hardware is concerned, but I wouldn't universally apply that to private citizens that just want to hide their dirty pics from a spouse.
  • djayjp - Monday, July 30, 2018 - link

    Yeah you can give the Communist party all of your log in info and have them track you and steal IP. You have no idea how scary things are in China. There is ample evidence the Chinese government does hack. Look up about their new 1984 citizen points system.
  • djayjp - Monday, July 30, 2018 - link

    Maybe you'll disappear one day. But don't worry, your organs will be of great benefit to the party leaders.
  • Greg E - Saturday, July 28, 2018 - link

    Very useful review, if a little late for my purchase decision :>) A few comments from a user of about a month: 1) I waffled about the notch, finally "turned it off". This makes the notch background always black, which means that the stupid Google decision to not allow colored icons in the notification tray (because that would conflict with the uncontrolled background color) can maybe go away. I sorely miss having some icons easily spotted by use of color. 2) You don't comment on the utility (or otherwise) of the fingerprint sensor on the back. On my previous phone (Note 4) I didn't bother with security, as it was too much hassle. With a reachable, tappable (ie not swipe) FPS, this is easy, so I use it. I no longer use the power button or double-tap on screen to wake the phone, as the FPS does that along with security. 3) I don't care for the glass back either, but I read somewhere that this contributes to better radio performance. My experience in that regard has been pretty good, but I am not in a position to test (hint, hint). Also, this may put them in good position to add 5G antennae in the next generation. Can you comment on this?
  • Andrei Frumusanu - Saturday, July 28, 2018 - link

    2) FPS' have been around for long enough now that I generally don't have much to talk about them. Personally as I have like 15 devices on my desk I don't have them on by default and beyond shortly testing them.

    3) Radio performance testing is insanely hard to do correctly and requires >$60k of equipment or very close cooperation with an RF lab - currently we don't have any of the prerequisites. Also I've seen in the past that posting subjective or amateurish testing can be completely wrong so I prefer not to write about it rather than write misleading things when I have no sense of certainty on the topic.
  • ZolaIII - Sunday, July 29, 2018 - link

    What makes the most on RF (radio) performance is traditionally antenna straight (size) and amplifier. So you have old chunky big antenna M's from late 90's that can get the signal when digged 6 fits under. Glass isn't particularly better than let's say plastic in letting analogue signals true but metals block them. Its a final time to step up and use nano tube polymers for phone casing or at least first gen of so called liquid metals (that actually don't have anything common with metal except straight)...
  • leo_sk - Sunday, July 29, 2018 - link

    A simple case how notch will cause problem. Try enabling network speed in the statusbar. Now you can black your notch or whatever on op6, you will never have the horizontal space to show it. You have to scroll down to notifications to see it, which is just irritating in long term usage. I would prefer instead that the whole are be blacked and the statusbar shifted below the notch, as in huawei phones. Also added benefit that statusbar changes colour with the apps, otherwise a black one seems reminiscent of android 4
  • amosbatto - Sunday, July 29, 2018 - link

    The OnePlus 6 represents everything I hate in smartphones:
    * No replaceable battery,
    * No MicroSD slot,
    * Notch in the screen,
    * Glass back which is prone to break,
    * One bottom facing speaker (I want 2 front facing speakers),
    * Lack of a decent bezel to protect the screen,
    * Need a heat gun and suction cups to open the case,
    * Lots of features don't work in LineageOS (notch in screen, VoLTE, NFC, Dash Charging, LiveDisplay / Night Light, LineageOS Styles, System Profile Bluetooth trigger, Adaptive Brightness,
    OnePlus Gestures, Color Profiles)

    Am I the only one who hates current phone design? Am I the only one who cares about the longevity, hardiness and repairability of phones?
  • Meteor2 - Thursday, September 20, 2018 - link

    Looks like it :-)
  • Vanguarde - Monday, July 30, 2018 - link

    No thanks to the Chinese hackers backdoor delivery device. Pass.
  • Meteor2 - Thursday, September 20, 2018 - link

    You know that all phones are made in China, right?
  • Wardrop - Monday, July 30, 2018 - link

    Just don't break the screen, as you basically have to tear apart every individual component within the phone to replace. Would be good if Anandtech did a tear down as part of their review to see how serviceable and well built the phones they review are.
  • Meteor2 - Thursday, September 20, 2018 - link

    That's what iFixit is for
  • Sameer-tariq-abbasi - Tuesday, July 31, 2018 - link

    Hi everyone no doubt one plus is very excellent in processing but you can't ignore <a href="https://youmobile.com.pk/brands/5/Oppo-mobile-pric... Phones</a> technology both are up to user expectations.
  • 4everalone - Tuesday, July 31, 2018 - link

    Just thinking out loud, wonder if it would be feasible for them to release a community edition ROM on XDA, free to tinker with, after their support period has ended for a model.
  • Meteor2 - Thursday, September 20, 2018 - link

    It's a Treble phone, so you could just install ASOP.
  • GoMoeJoe - Wednesday, August 1, 2018 - link

    It's a beastly device, with excellent software support - at a ridiculously reasonable price.
    I own one !
  • s.yu - Thursday, August 9, 2018 - link

    What I learned from this review is that even for smartphones, lens variation poses a significant impact.
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  • bmvmadeira - Monday, August 20, 2018 - link

    After being blatantly lied by OnePlus regarding software support on the OnePlus 2 I will never consider one of their phones again.
    Rationally they are not that cheap nowadays and the increase of Android One offers make their offers less desirable.
  • PocoLoco - Monday, September 3, 2018 - link

    I'm unable to find the article where the reviewer (Andrei most probably) came to the conclusion that 1440p display panels consume same amount of battery as 1080p one's and that they don't require a lot more cpu/gpu power. Can someone please help?
  • PocoLoco - Monday, September 3, 2018 - link

    Someone please link me to the article... Thanks.
  • Archipelago - Sunday, January 6, 2019 - link

    Andrei, I always look forward to your reviews, especially cellphone camera reviews. I will download the images and compare them on my 1440p monitor. Except in extreme cases, I really can't discern the differences using those images. I just rely on your evaluations. Based on your glowing review, I bought a OnePlus 6. I kept it for about six weeks before listing it on eBay. I found the camera performance to be totally unacceptable. Reddit has threads full of similar complaints about the OP 6 camera. I just don't quite see how it could be thought of as "one of the best".
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