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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2018-10-30 11:00 am
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Re: The OnePlus 6T Review - looks amazing, and if I didn't get a OnePlus 6 recently I'd be getting o

[personal profile] doug 2018-11-09 07:45 am (UTC)(link)
It arrived yesterday (Thursday) lunchtime, which is pretty speedy from ordering at 9.13am on Tuesday. It would've been ordered earlier, except I spent 10 minutes finding out that OnePlus online silently drops some nonalphanumeric characters in passwords.

First impressions: my life but it's better than the terrible broken old phone I was using. More seriously, it is a little bigger than the 3T, and a little speedier, and the screen is a little better and seems way bigger. (Which it is, in terms of viewable area.) I'm not totally convinced by the notch (this is my first phone with one), although I've set it up to ban apps from it and it works nicely as notification bar since that populates from the sides anyway. The fingerprint sensor hidden in the screen works, but it is very noticeably slow to activate compared to the 3T's, such that I've set up location unlock for home and work so I don't have to do it so often. Also, I've realised that the standalone sensor served as a physical prompt for where the back, home and overview buttons are. This will probably be less of an issue when I've got used to where they are on the current phone, but it may be that they're more often hidden by the screen which won't help with that. I've not done a lot of photography yet, but it seems fine, although the shutter delay seemed annoyingly long in low light, which is not great considering most of my photos are of children and the cat indoors. The quality of the photos is superb, though. And this is a very nippy modern phone.

If my old 3T hadn't broken, I don't think the 6T is enough of a boost to make it worth the money for me. But given that it has, it's a very nice phone indeed for the price point.