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One Plus 5

OnePlus has launched the fourth iteration of its self-styled flagship killer - The One Plus 5. The OnePlus 5 has an anodized metal back like its predecessors, the 3 and 3T. The handset is currently available in matte black and gray colors.

Specification

The device comes with a Snapdragon 835 chipset clocked at 2.45 GHz. It has a 1080p AMOLED display and comes in two variants 6 and 8 GB RAM, 64 and 128 GB storage respectively and 3300mAh battery with the support of Dash Charging.The OnePlus 5 uses a 16 MP Sony Exmor IMX398 Electronic Image Stabilized camera module along with a 20MP Sony Exmor IMX376 telephoto lens. The front camera uses a 16MP IMX350 lens.

Price OF The One Plus 5

Overall Package offered by OnePlus is good but price bracket can be of little worry. Price of 6 GB Ram and 64 GB Storage variant is $479 and 8 GB variant is priced at $539.

Price in India 

There was no word on the OnePlus 5 price in India, as expected, so everyone will have to wait till Thursday's India launch event to find it. However, leaks have suggested the OnePlus 5 price in India will be Rs. 32,999 for the 6GB RAM and 64GB storage variant, while the model with 8GB RAM and 128GB storage is said to cost Rs. 37,999. The company will host the launch event in Mumbai on Thursday at 2 pm, followed by pop-up events where fans can purchase the smartphone offline in New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, and Bengaluru the following two days. Amazon India has confirmed that sales of the smartphone will begin from 4:30 pm IST on Thursday, June 22.

OnePlus 5 camera

Rear Camera (16+20 Megapixel)

The OnePlus 5 is claimed to sport what OnePlus calls the "highest resolution dual-camera system on a smartphone today". It have 16-megapixel main camera (Sony IMX398 sensor, 1.12-micron pixels) with an f/1.7 aperture, said to capture 34 percent more light than the OnePlus 3T (which had an aperture of f/2.0), coupled with a 20-megapixel telephoto camera (Sony IMX350 sensor, 1-micron pixels) with an f/2.6 aperture.The company is also boasting of Fast AF, which gives the OnePlus 5 faster autofocus, said to be 40 percent speedier than the OnePlus 3T. The rear camera setup features a dual-LED flash module and boasts of 4K video recording with EIS. The dual camera setup, apart from Bokeh effects, also delivers optical zoom up to 2x, and bumped up to 8x using a multi-frame software algorithm. The rear camera setup also supports the new Pro Mode, with options like ISO, shutter-speed, white balance, a histogram, gyroscope-based reference line, and RAW image editing. OnePlus also announced an improved HDR algorithm, and brought forward its Smart Capture feature for auto adjustments.

Front Camera

the OnePlus 5 sports a 16-megapixel front camera with a 1-micron pixel Sony IMX371 sensor, an f/2.0 aperture, and EIS. It can shoot full-HD (1080p) video. The front camera can also activate screen flash, with three modes to choose from - On, Off, and Auto. There's also an Auto HDR mode.

OnePlus 5 features

Getting to the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 SoC used on the OnePlus 5, the company reveals the octa-core processor has a maximum clock speed of 2.45GHz, and claims that the coupled Adreno 540 GPU offers up to 25 percent more graphical performance.

OnePlus is offering the smartphone in two memory and storage variants - 6GB RAM/ 64GB inbuilt storage and 8GB RAM/ 128GB inbuilt storage.

The OnePlus 5 sports LPDDR4X RAM, which OnePlus claims is 17 percent more power efficient than the previous LPDDR4 offering. Also being touted alongside is a feature called App Priority, which learns the apps users utilise most commonly to load them on startup. Apps that aren't commonly used are deprioritised. Another performance improvement is the use of UFS 2.1 storage and a 2-lane ROM, which together are said to double bandwidth.

The OnePlus 3 and OnePlus 3T were both plagued by touch latency issues, and OnePlus claims to have solved the issue on the OnePlus 5 by using high-speed cameras that track the movement of the screen and input speeds. The OnePlus 5 sports a slightly smaller 3300mAh battery compared to the OnePlus 3T's 3400mAh offering, however, with "hardware and software optimisations" manages to deliver 20 percent more battery life than its predecessor. The company carries forward the ceramic fingerprint sensor on the OnePlus 3T to the OnePlus 5, with the same boast of unlocking in 0.2 seconds. The company is also calling the OnePlus 5 a "true world phone", with support for 34 GSM network bands.

Finally, OxygenOS on the OnePlus 5 gets some new features including Reading Mode, Expanded Screenshots, and a semi-transparent app drawer.

OnePlus 5 design

The smartphone is built out of anodised aluminium and does indeed look like the iPhone 7 Plus, with the primary difference being the shape of the Home Button. OnePlus has even mimicked the antenna lines of the iPhone 7 Plus. The company is boasting of the slimness of the OnePlus 5, calling it the "slimmest OnePlus flagship ever" at 7.25mm.

OnePlus elaborated on the design of the OnePlus 5. OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei showed off a new "continuous hard line around the edge of the phone", called the Horizon Line. The smartphone also sports more rounded corners compared to previous offerings, and also features the iPhone 7 Plus-like crescent-shaped antenna lines on the top and bottom. 

OnePlus 5 will be available in two colour variants - Midnight Black and Slate Grey. It retains the single speaker as well as the 3.5mm audio jack on the bottom panel. Other features carried on from previous generations of OnePlus smartphones include hardware capacitive keys and the Alert Slider.