We are almost halfway through 2018,

which means that flagship phones are coming.

And to start out this new wave,

we have the brand new OnePlus 6.

So, in a world of thousand dollar flagships,

the idea that you can pick up a phone

like the OnePlus 6 for starting at $530.00

means that you're really getting

a lot of those same specs, a lot of the same features

but at a much lower price.

But, as always, the question is, is it worth it?

So, what we have here is the mid spec model.

So, not only is this going to have eight gigabytes of ram,

but it's also gonna have 128 gigs of storage.

This is in the Midnight Black color.

And if we remove the little sticky here,

you can see that is, well, not only incredibly shiny,

but the last time this will ever be completely perfect

until I get my grimey finger prints on it.

So, if you put the OnePlus 6 side by side

with the 5T, one of the main things

you'll notice that instead of the metal back

that they've had for quite a few years,

instead we do have that all Gorilla Glass 5 look.

Now it is going to be slightly tapered on the back.

And honestly, it kind of feels nice,

sort of similar to what you would find on

something like the Galaxy S8, or Galaxy S9.

Before we get too far into it though,

I want to take a look inside the box.

And what we're going to find is not only

our USB-C to USB-A cable,

but also the rather large Dash charger.

Something that OnePlus has been known for

for quite a few years now is the idea that

they have some of the fastest charging phones out there.

Fire up the OnePlus 6, and the first thing

you'll see is the notch.

Yes, my friends, like basically all smartphones of 2018

the OnePlus has gotten onto the notch train.

But, I will say they've actually done

it a little bit differently here.

So, the first thing you'll notice

is that the notch is actually one

of the smallest that you'll see.

Most of that is because there's really not a whole lot here

besides the front facing camera,

the light sensor, as well as your ear piece.

But something else to pay attention to

is how small the rest of the bezels are.

So, there's basically nothing on the sides of the display.

And even the chin is going to be really, really minimal.

Where this is really noticeable is when you

put it side by side with the OnePlus 5T.

Even with the overall footprint of the phones,

they're almost identical.

What you're getting here is going to be

a little bit of a larger display

because you don't have that forehead,

and the chin is going to be smaller.

And because of that, you're going from a six inch display

to a 6.3 in that same size body.

This guy is rocking a 6.3 inch, 2280 by 1080 AMOLED display.

That is going to be a slightly unusual

19 by 9 aspect ratio, but what it does mean

is that while its not going to be

the most high-res screen in the world,

you are going to be something that, again,

covers pretty much the entire front of the phone.

Now generally speaking, I feel like a 1080p resolution

is pretty solid on a phone this size,

however, because it is AMOLED, if you do look up close

you're going to see some slight jaggys,

it's not gonna be quite as sharp

as something like a Galaxy S9 screen,

but as soon as you get it more than a few inches

away from your face, I think it's going to be totally solid.

And, importantly, the screen quality itself

is actually super-high with this guy.

So, not only is the OnePlus 6 color-calibrated

straight from the factory,

but you also do have extra modes inside the settings.

You can set it to the Default mode,

which, to my eyes, a little bit oversaturated.

You also have sRGB, you have DCI-P3,

as well as the Adaptive mode.

But, I like going to the Custom color

and just tweaking it to be a little bit more natural.

- [Voice On Phone] Now, with the S9,

you're really not going to be losing anything.

They're also--

- So, you will see that the screen,

even when you do the custom profile,

is going to be slightly oversaturated.

That's almost more of an OLED thing.

Now, speaking of OLED things,

if you do look at it slightly off-axis

you're going to see the viewing angles are good

but not amazing, however, that's going to be

pretty much any AMOLED panel.

But, what isn't going to be quite so great

is the HDR playback.

This does support HDR video, however

it actually does it at a little bit of a choppy rate,

at least on YouTube.

Don't get me wrong, though,

this is an incredibly nice display.

In a lot of ways, it's right up there

with stuff like the Galaxy S9 as well as the iPhone.

The only thing that really holds it back

is going to be the slightly lower resolution.

But, as long as you're sort of at a normal viewing distance,

it's really not going to be an issue.

The OnePlus 6 does still have dual SIM card slots,

which is definitely appreciated,

but you do not have any kind of microSD expandability.

If you want any more storage,

you're going to have to buy it ahead of time.

But, thankfully, it's actually not going to be that pricey.

The base model, at $530.00 does have 64 gigs of storage,

but another $50.00 will bump you up to 128,

and if you wanna spend another $100.00,

you're going to be getting 256 gigs of storage.

Pretty reasonable in my opinion.

Take a look at the bottom of the phone.

In addition to the USB-C port,

you're also going to find the headphone jack.

Yes, my friends, a high-end phone in 2018

that does come standard with a headphone jack.

("Hotel California" by Eagles)

One thing the OnePlus 6 does not have is a great speaker.

So, like the previous models, there's only going to be

a single mono speaker that fires down.

It's going to be reasonably loud,

but it would be really nice to join

the rest of the high-end flagships

by adding a front-firing speaker up top

that doubles as your speaker grill thing,

whatever they call it, headset, what,

I always forget what it's called.

The stupid, uh, ear piece, ear piece.

Now, because we do have a glass back,

the phone is fairly slippery,

but there's actually going to be

a fairly hard chamfer on the side,

which does kinda give you a little bit of grip.

And something else the OnePlus really nailed

are the buttons.

This is not something I talk about very often

because, well, for the most part, a button is a button,

but not only are they going to be pretty raised up,

but they're not going to be flush at all,

but they're nicely spaced,

and they actually feel really good.

There's this nice tactile click.

And, especially with the volume rockers

and as well as the little OnePlus slider

that will turn on and off the mute or the vibrate switch.

Everything feels really solid.

They did a good job here.

The fingerprint sensor around back

works just as you would expect,

so it is going to be right below the camera bump,

which is a little bit large on the phone,

but just kinda helps you find the fingerprint sensor.

And, on top of that, this does also have

an upgraded version of Face Unlock.

Now, it's not going to be as secure

as something like the iPhone X,

but it does work pretty well.

So, I kinda hold it up here and hit the button,

it pretty much immediately unlocks

as if I didn't even have a passcode.

Maybe not the most secure thing in the world,

but it is definitely fast.

This is the first time the OnePlus has gone

with an all glass construction for one of their phones.

And it does look pretty nice and allow them to do

multiple colors.

The Midnight Black is interesting looking

even though it is going to be super, super fingerprinty.

However, there are going to be some interesting trade-offs.

So, yes, it feels nice in the hand,

especially because it is going to be curved on back,

but it's not really going to be all that unique.

It's very, very common for flagship phones,

and even some budget options to go with

a glass construction in 2018.

Now, the trade-off when you go with glass,

even with something high-end like this Gorilla Glass 5,

is that you're going to be losing some durability.

Now, of course, you can get

sort of micro-scratches and stuff,

but that kinda happen on any phone.

The real worry is if you drop it,

you could totally shatter not only the front,

but also the back of the phone.

The worst part is, you're really not going to be getting

anything besides the aesthetics.

So, while a metal phone generally will not allow you

to wireless charge because the metal will interfere,

most of the time a glass phone will.

However, for some odd reason, OnePlus decided to opt out

of adding any kind of wireless charging capabilities

to the OnePlus 6.

Sure, it's got the super-fast Dash charging,

and honestly I end up using sort of normal wire charging

a lot more than wireless anyway,

but it would be really nice to have that option,

especially considering that it's not even that expensive.

It's kind of weird that they didn't include it.

Now, there is going to be some waterproofing

inside the phone, however, OnePlus did not opt to do

any kind of IP67 or IP68 rating.

Basically, what that means is that

it actually might not be that far off

from something like an iPhone or Galaxy

as far as being waterproof,

but if you actually get it wet and kill it,

it's not going to be warranty supported,

so you're on your own on that one.

There are some other nice features,

including a full RGB notification light,

as well as an ambient display mode.

So, like something like the Pixel or the Galaxy S9,

you can see, at a quick glance, your notifications

and the time, and date, however, unlike those phones,

it's not going to be always on.

You're going to either have to tap the display

or actually raise it up for it to trigger.

Inside, you're going find full flagship level specs.

So, it's going to be rocking a Snapdragon 845 processor

with eight cores, as well as either

six or eight gigabytes or RAM,

depending on which model you pick up.

Now, in the Android space, that's about as good as it gets.

It's right on par with something like the Galaxy S9,

and if you look at it side-by-side

with other phones like the iPhone as well as the OnePlus 5T,

it does do a pretty solid job.