**** The Official OnePlus 6T Thread ****

kona786 said:
Spending on another camera that you charge and carry around as much as your just ain't an option for me, or most who like to take quality snaps I'd assume. Not when you can just get a Pixel or Xs.

Not getting snarky, was genuine. Some people just don't fully understand the capability of the pixels camera from Top Shot to the best HDR there is, then the impossible Night Sight. Just think about the faff you'd have to do even with an DSLR to get a night sight or even HDR level shot.
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Those shots are crap when you actually view them properly. On a tiny 6inch screen its ok but try printing that on even a piece of A4 or zooming into . Its pants you cant beat physics(sensor size)
 
kona786 said:
Spending on another camera that you charge and carry around as much as your just ain't an option for me, or most who like to take quality snaps I'd assume. Not when you can just get a Pixel or Xs.

Not getting snarky, was genuine. Some people just don't fully understand the capability of the pixels camera from Top Shot to the best HDR there is, then the impossible Night Sight. Just think about the faff you'd have to do even with an DSLR to get a night sight or even HDR level shot.
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Of course, for day to day use no-one would carry around a 2nd camera. But it's not unrealistic to carry a decent camera when you know you'll be going somewhere specific.

No worries, no offence taken :) It is a VERY capable camera, but all the night sight, HDR, 'portrait mode' things are software solutions to hardware limitations - they've getting very good but they're still effectively workarounds. As good as the Pixel 3 is, it's not as good as a dedicated camera. You can't beat real BOKEH! :D

With no thought, in the hands of an average user taking a night cityscape, then yeah a Pixel would probably take a better picture than someone with a normal camera. But put a little thought into the shot and better results will come. The user will be limited by the camera phone, whereas with a mirrorless camera/DSLR the user will typically be the limiting factor. :D

Oh and on the note of people only viewing pics on their phones, disagree completely! :D With cloud storage, we'll now be keeping pics for decades, and with 4k TV's and monitors, they're being viewed on high resolution devices. Would you want to capture that once-in-a-lifetime moment in slightly iffy lighting conditions, which will be a memory for years to come and probably shown to your grand kids, with a camera on a smartphone, or take a few extra seconds with a proper camera? Are the pics taken with a polaroid the ones you've got hanging in your living room, or are the ones on show the pictures taken by your parents on their old 35mm film camera? :)




Also, didn't mean to derail the thread! Just giving another view to the Pixel 3 vs OP6T camera debate :D
 
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Charlie Bravo said:
Just finished setting mine up.
Initial impressions -

I don't like the case it comes with as the lips rise up quite a lot compared to the one my Huawei Mate 10 Pro came with. However, it's a free case which is more than most phones come with.

It has downloaded and installed all 209 apps that I use way faster than the Mate 10 Pro did. I remember that took ages but the Oneplus has done the lot within 40 mins or so.

The screen brightness is probably on a par with the Huawei, maybe a tad brighter, I'm not sure.

A surprising one - the speaker. I've played a track using Spotify on both phones, switching between the two accordingly. Not only is the Oneplus louder but I can also hear more instruments in the track itself.
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Any decent case should have raised edges around the screen, it's what helps prevent damage to the screen face in the event of the phone being dropped. I wouldn't entertain a case without this feature.

The one I have purchased as a present has arrived. I very carefully opened the box to have a good nosy and I'm mightily impressed. So much so that I may well be ordering another this week for myself.
 
MrRockliffe said:
My point is, other than price, there's no longer anything the OnePlus 6T offers over, say, a pixel.
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I have a stack of unused headphones for mobiles. I've never used the headphone jack on any phone I've ever owned and that's going back some, so for me they could have got rid of this feature a decade ago.

But hey I appreciate some folk do use them - just not me.
 
MrRockliffe said:
My point is, other than price, there's no longer anything the OnePlus 6T offers over, say, a pixel.
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Got a 6T and have a pixel 2xl also.

The 6T beats it in all areas except camera, most noticeably the raw speed and the display. Having said that, the camera is no slouch by any means.

Going to give it a few days to weigh up my choices but at the moment leaning towards keeping the 6T
 
kona786 said:
The camera on the 6T is mediocre in comparison to the Pixel 3. The rest of the Pixel is meh I agree there. But they do have stereo speakers which I am a fan of.

@tallpall_s - carry another camera around all the time on the off chance of a shot? Nah you're alright mate.
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Agreed the Pixel has the best camera but as far as I'm aware it's not the hardware doing the heavy lifting but rather the software and they're porting the Pixel's camera software so it's a gap that's being bridged slowly. Made me think it probably wasn't worth the other sacrifices in the long run, may come to regret that line of thought though.

Stereo speakers are nice but Google seems to have a weird implementation with one speaker being clearly louder and all those reports of distorted sound, that was one of the things that put me off the Pixel.
 
SpartaK said:
Got a 6T and have a pixel 2xl also.

The 6T beats it in all areas except camera, most noticeably the raw speed and the display. Having said that, the camera is no slouch by any means.

Going to give it a few days to weigh up my choices but at the moment leaning towards keeping the 6T
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exactly the same case here! camera is the only negative I can see of the 6t the rest is above pixel 2.
 
I'd say the camera is perfectly fine coming from a S8+ - as mentioned a lot of the Pixel's camera power comes from the image processing and software so this is definitely an area that can be improved on.
 
Janesy B said:
I'd say the camera is perfectly fine coming from a S8+ - as mentioned a lot of the Pixel's camera power comes from the image processing and software so this is definitely an area that can be improved on.
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Likewise i came from an S8 (which I dropped sadly), finding the camera perfectly ok, it's not a priority for me though. What I am loving is the fact I'm on the November patch already, and the sheer speed of the OS. It's the right device for me and fitted in well with the remainder of my sim only contract.
Very pleased so far, in screen fps working well too.
 
My impressions over the last 24 hours

Things I like so far

- General speed and responsiveness
- Lots of neat little touches in the UI that make the phone at lot easier to use, such as being able to lock a recent app so you don't accidentally close it - this is annoying with Spotify
- Screen looks great, much more neutral than a Samsung and quite iPhone like especially in sRGB mode
- Mute slider on the side
- Shows battery percentage for BT devices - I don't know why so many Android devices struggle with this
- Face unlock is super fast, fingerprint reader about 80% as quick as a capacitive one but in a much better location for your thumb
- General battery consumption is good, and the charging speed is ridiculously fast. I don't miss wireless charging when I can top up 20% in about 10-15 mins
- Case in the box and screen protector fitted - if you don't like them you don't have to use them but it's handy while you decide what case/skin you want to buy
- NFC is at the top of the phone which makes using for payments/transport much easier. I have to place my S8 on top of readers as the chip was somewhere in the middle

Things I don't like

- Not having a notification LED is taking some time to get used to
- I was wrong about the vibration in the other thread, it's not as strong other phones I have used. Thankfully my Gear S3 vibrates for the things I am bothered about
- Mute slider is kinda loose and wobbly
- Only one of the big grilles at the bottom is actually a speaker
- Camera isn't an upgrade over the 6, I think some software improvements are needed for image processing

Things that don't bother me

- Missing headphone jack, I've been using BT headphones for a while now and just bought the Sony WH-1000MX3 headphones. I'm not finding it an issue. I will get a set of the USB-C bullets to stick in my work bag though, just to see what they're like. People complaining that sound quality isn't as good, when listening to music on heavily compressed formats like Spotify, Podcasts, Youtube etc are all talking rubbish.

Stupid things I've done

- Put the SIM eject tool in the top hole thinking it was the same as my S8.... no harm done though thankfully.

Overall it's an upgrade from my S8+ in every way apart from the camera and screen so far. I used to run it in FHD+ anyway so I don't miss the downgrade in resolution and it's actually sharper on the 6T as it's the native res for the screen. Camera I haven't tested extensively yet, but I'd say the camera was about the same in most situations. Images out of the Samsung were always quite saturated and over sharpened so they did look good in screen but not so much elsewhere. Maybe if OnePlus could introduce some colour profiles or presets for the camera so you could choose between natural/muted colours or have something with more pop.
 
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