Month together: the good and bad OnePlus One

Can kitayfon for $ 350 to be at least equal of the recognized leaders of the smartphone market? Ordering from China a OnePlus One, I knew the answer. Yes maybe. My confidence was based on the review holders and personal experiences of the use of other Asian crafts in the past. Have you changed my opinion after a month of working closely with the tube? Not. Though not without complaints.

In this article, I will share all the ins and outs of one of the best Android-smartphone in terms of price / performance to date.

History OnePlus formation originates at the end of 2013, when a number of employees of a large Chinese manufacturer of smartphones OPPO left the camp of their company in order to create the dream phone. Experience in design, communication with suppliers and nedyuzhennye ambitions attached. PR campaign spun and curled into such a strong spring that phone output needed to produce the effect of the explosion of a nuclear bomb. From promises perfectly seasoned design, powerful filling and exclusive firmware simply dizzy. What happened in the end?

Appearance

Definitely not impressed.

The front side does not stand out, though, and does not cause rejection. Metal frame gives a small hint of the premium status of the smartphone, although the "iron" can be hung more. In this case the tube would become more masculine and possibly heavy that I personally enjoy. Ideally I'd like to see something similar to the HTC or Sony.

The back side is represented by the curved lid white or black. Here I want to throw the first piece of shit aside hitrosdelannyh members OnePlus. The fact is that the buyer does not have the right color selection. Phone with a smaller amount of internal memory is provided exclusively white cover, more capacious version - black. The logic is simple: the rich guys will not regret the extra tens of dollars for the black version and gigabytes. Psychological barrier of three hundred bucks to overcome.

But it's not so bad. Personally, I've been waiting StyleSwap Cover release - special back covers in the style of a variety of materials: wood, Kevlar, denim, sand and silk. Even a considerable price of $ 40 seemed to be justified in such an interesting solution.

But the tale was never meant to be. First covers output delayed, and more recently has been completely abolished. The reason - the production difficulties. Even if it is true, but this is the second piece of excrement. The official website of OnePlus hanging pre-order on a bamboo cover. But there are two pitfalls: the circulation is very limited, and the Chinese buy up to drive up the price of impropriety.

The size

5.5 ", according to OnePlus engineers, it does not matter. I confirm that this is true. Can you imagine a standard hand at the height of a man in the 175 cm? In such a medium Pjaternoe phone fits comfortably. At first, I was somewhat scared reach a finger up the screen removed items, I was afraid of falling tube. But the rear plastic cover material is reliably "sticks" to the palm, and the option of slipping is practically excluded.

Of course, look at the screen at a diagonal - a pleasure. I stopped taking my iPad on business trips, for now, and not necessarily on the phone to poke his nose into the screen that is something to consider.

But impressive inches have a negative side. For example, I simply can not find a case for the phone. In the shops of my city corny no such "cover". Therefore, we should again climb on Ali and a month to wait for delivery. A Case for OnePlus is urgently needed. Rear cover quite easily scratched and smeared, which is especially noticeable on a light embodiment. But the screen cover does not disappoint: it is resistant to a small physical impact.

Phone without protruding end is placed in the pockets of his pants size S, so you can wear it not only in your bag or outerwear.

By the way, I had a few times "squat" on the phone when he was in the back pocket of jeans. Cod no sounds, no occurrence of backlash is not observed - all done on the conscience.

Maybe a few smartphone looks absurdly attached to the ear of the head a little, but remember Asians who shamelessly call for 6-inch PHABLET. :)

And finally in this block. Volume keys are located closer to the middle of the phone body with his left hand. Thereby adjust the sound output is absolutely seamlessly.

Firmware

CyanogenMod - the main reason that I opted for OnePlus One. Developer of firmware and OnePlus Company entered into a partnership agreement under which overlooked the smart phone has received a special version of the Android OS. In fact nothing extraordinary happened, but buyers can be sure that some time after the release of the fifth edition of their Android phone will receive the coveted upgrade.

CyanogenMod has won the love of a huge army of fans of custom firmware for your advanced features coupled with stability. I will not describe all of the chips, to focus attention only on those that affect my experience of using the phone.

OnePlus One is programmed to switch the screen double tapom on it. Super-duper-mega-druper convenient. I'm so used to the seemingly small things that, picking up any other gadget, try to activate it by double touch operation.

Drawing a circle, you run the camera. Now there is no need to install additional toolsIn order to be able to immediately begin to shoot at the right moment.

The letter V activates the flashlight. Of course, you can turn off all of these features.

Gestures work properly, sometimes too regularly. What am I? Imagine you pulls the phone out of his pocket, and do not recognize your workspace. Icons are mixed, the topic changed to lose the camera filmed the photo and video. Who is it all done? Your fifth point, the lack of cover and pocket. Screen friction of clothing and creates such wonders. Once I had the opportunity to roam the streets at night with glowing lantern from running polupopiem. It must have looked funny, until I discovered these things misunderstanding.

Separately mention the possibility of recording events happening on the screen straight "out of the box" with the help of a special application.

Performance

The device beats 46 000 parrots in the popular mobile benchmark Antutu. This is perhaps the most powerful solution available today. There is a great job ligament "hardware - the software." 4K video as a recorded and played back without any problems (my desktop nervously jealous aside). On toys I can not say anything, because if ever they are not installed and compare me with nothing.

But because of the power of the turbo machine of its hood is quite hot. The first and only time I feel about it all at the same Antutu test. How else to get the phone to work to the full extent that he began to allocate excessive amounts of heat, I can not imagine.

Display

OnePlus One boasts excellent matrix to work with a comfortable under all lighting conditions. Auto Lighting Optimizer works perfectly well, I have never had a desire to her, "upturned". I can say with confidence that much less tired my eyes were at long work with this phone both because of the large screen diagonal, and because of the great pictures.

Battery

3 100 mAh. This is enough to set the phone to stay afloat during the day and a half at a sufficiently high load. Here is an example. While on the trip, I spent four hours watching for KVN, about an hour I have been actively used by navigation from Google, I climbed a couple of hours on the web and about 10 minutes patted on the phone. I returned home with a working phone and charge the remainder 20% of the battery.

Camera

Shoots well, but without the frills. As such claims, I can not pick up, but it would be something more. For example, image stabilization.

Perhaps Photo guru will be able to squeeze more from both of the sensor and the settings. OnePlus One is able to shoot video at 120 frames per second, and supports a wide 4K DCI format. It is fashionable and cool.

glitches

Such was not found. English-speaking forums I've read that some users encountered the problem of unexpected reboot the phone, the loss of the mobile, and even large Jora battery ignition. Where is it? I dont know. Most likely, I got OnePlus One already combed firmware.

Output

OnePlus One was submitted in April. Until now, the phone is available to order only from China, so the claimed price tag of $ 300, you can throw fifty dollars. World capture is scheduled for October. This is a very long period of time for which the market there were other extremely tempting offers from Chinese companies Xiaomi and Meizu at a similar price. Therefore, OnePlus One is still not unique, but very good.

And yes. I will definitely buy OnePlus Two.

If you do not disdain Chinese "consumer goods" and are thinking about purchasing a quality and affordable smartphone, take a look at OnePlus One.

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