With the presentation of a new flagship model being the best way to quell its recent bad press, OnePlus has now revealed the 5T. The firm hits hard once again with a high-end smartphone packed with top-of-the-range technology and with a much more competitive price tag than equivalents from market leaders Apple, Samsung and Huawei.
The OnePlus 5T has a six-inch edge-to-edge AMOLED screen (2.160 x 1.080 pixels) with an 18:9 aspect ratio and a new Sunlight Display feature that automatically adjusts in relation to surrounding lighting conditions — even bright sunshine. The OnePlus 5T is a powerful handset with up to 8GB of RAM and 128GB of onboard storage, and runs a latest-generation Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor. For photos too, the new OnePlus phone doesn’t have much to envy of the best smartphones on the market with its dual 16- and 20-Megapixel main camera, promising boosted image sharpness — even in low light — and bokeh-style portraits (blurred background). It also films 4K video with electronic image stabilization. Like other OnePlus handsets, the 5T runs the custom Oxygen0S operating system, based on Android 7.1.1 (Nougat), which now lets users keep personal and professional email accounts separate on the same device.
Finally, the handset can be unlocked by fingerprint or facial recognition. OnePlus promises particularly speedy results with this alternative to Apple’s Face ID technology, scanning and analyzing faces in under half a second.
The OnePlus 5T is out from Tuesday, November 21, 2017, priced from $499 (64 GB memory, 6 GB RAM).