OnePlus X is the third smartphone company OnePlus that even two years ago did not exist, and which devices are the most eagerly awaited by smartfonowych enthusiasts. This has been achieved thanks to the excellent quality and very good price-quality ratio. OnePlus X is trying to continue this tradition, but this time in a smaller, even cheaper and very attractive visually release. Is it so cost-effective, as suggested by its price, appearance and specifications? This question will answer the test.
OnePlus X - test
OnePlus X costs 1,150 zł and at this price seems to provide a lot (especially after the recent general price increases related to the high exchange rate of the dollar). Pięciocalowy AMOLED screen with a resolution of Full HD, old, but spring Snapdragon 801, 3 GB of memory (RAM), feature dual-SIM, 13-megapixel camera - all encased in a very neat and well-made cabinet with glass and aluminum. Find direct worthy rival for the smartphone would not be easy (probably to search the nooks and crannies of Chinese online stores or consider "almost new" copies of auction sites).
OnePlus X - Specifications
Dimensions 140 × 69 × 6.9 mm LTE Cat 4
Weight 138 g Wi-Fi 1-band, n
Screen 5 inches NFC No
1920 × 1080 Infrared Do not
AMOLED FM Radio Yes
Snapdragon processor 801 image output not
4 x 2.3 GHz Krait 400 USB Host Yes
Adreno 330 Noise reduction Yes
RAM 3 GB of available memory approx. 9.5 GB
Battery 2525 mAh Micro-SD Yes (64+ GB)
The camera on the back of photos: 13 MP, autofocus, LED, HDR
Video: 1080p @ 30 fps., 720p @ 120 fps.
Front camera Photos: 8 MP
Video: 1080p @ 30 fps.
Quality and appearance OnePlus X is by far the strongest side of the device. His style is not a visionary, because the glass back and metal frame we've seen in many phones and in very different editions, but designers OnePlus showed that of these classic and proven solutions can still squeeze a lot, if only properly take care of the details. Yes, it is the attention to detail contributes to the fact that OnePlus X fell so much to our liking at first glance and first touch. The rounded edges of the glass 2.5D, several narrow grooves carved in a metal frame that do interesting things with them, reflecting the light and improve grip, metal buttons, discreet headset ... For this black body color and dark color interface in conjunction with a screen AMOLED make when you look at this phone in front, often no way to tell where the screen ends and start the frame. Everything fits together and nothing is left to chance here. Of course, all of the above sentence is just a subjective opinion tester and not everyone has to agree with it, but rest assured that the quality of performance OnePlus X would not be ignored is the best smartphones major brands, and undoubtedly many fall in love with it, as in the hand and what does impression on people seeing it for the first time.
On the right side OnePlus X placed metal, pleasant-to-use volume control buttons, button locking system and drawer for two cards nano-SIM or a nano-SIM card and a micro-SD (unfortunately, the drawer of this type still do not want to go where they place). On the left side is known for OnePlus 2 switch that quickly mute all sounds, which by the way acts as a "odstresowywacza." Holding OnePlus X in hand, often unconsciously we played the slider, because moving it strangely addictive. Below the screen is inserted three configurable touch pads. Configurable, because the user can decide which side he wants to have an undo button, and from the one that activates the screen to switch between programs, as well as to set what happens after a long hold fast or double-tap each. And if you really want, you can always disable them completely and instead use the on-screen buttons.
The last mentioned structural elements include OnePlus X is located on the upper edge of the headphone output, and inserted into the lower part of the frame micro-USB connector and a single, very easy to hand speaker obstruction.
In late December, the sales went the other color version smartphone OnePlus X, which was called Champagne. It is characterized by a white front and back, as well as gold, metal edges. OnePlus X is a piece of decent work designers. Keeping him and looking at him just makes fun and hard to find in this price range so good-looking and made phone. Some may be traced in it any references to Apple hardware and harshly probably recognize that this is a plywood iPhone with Xperiami Z, but even if it is, then ... actually, so what? OnePlus X defends itself and is so interesting, that it can not be pigeonholed as a Chinese fake anything.
some practice
After a few days of admiration increasingly began to reach us, that OnePlus X smartphone is not perfect and has a lot of more or less annoying shortcomings.
Let's start with the software. Already in the test OnePlus 2 mention that in our opinion created by OnePlus overlay OxygenOS is not bad, but it will take some time before it will be fully functional and will work as it should. Since then, our view on this has not changed. It is true that the creators of X's should be commended for the fact that frequently update their devices and systems actually try to introduce new features and patch all the holes as quickly as possible, but before them and so have a lot of work. For example, during our tests repeatedly continued to run the auto screen rotation or proximity sensor off the screen after applying the phone to your ear. A lot of the problems tormenting also supports memory cards (although it supposedly fixes the latest package updates, which previously could not install). Discussion forums users of this smartphone complain about some odd behavior OnePlus X and all of them are associated with the software. Of course, each overlay has some mistakes, but rather OxygenOS is not for people looking for a phone that just works and makes the least problems ...
Some cost cutting can also be found, looking at wireless communication modules. The handset is correct and its quality should be satisfactory for most users, the two places on the SIM card in working order (although some we missed more opportunities to configure the behavior of cards in different situations), but the Wi-Fi only The single and OnePlus X is another smartphone the brand, which does not have NFC.
Multimedia support only negative surprises. The video decoder can handle 4K video 1080p H.264 and H.265, which is now standard. Built-in speaker can play a surprisingly loud, but so easy to cover it with his hand, that this volume is usually little use. While the headphone ... is relatively poor. He lacks the power, and the sound quality (especially the separation of instruments) is far from what we expected from him. OnePlus X will be able to meet the needs of less demanding consumers of media content, but it is not a multimedia smartphone with flesh and blood, nor worthy deputy decent portable music player.
Very blue and not very bright screen AMOLED 1080p
This screen smartphone with the price range seems to be a recipe for a quick and easy success, because AMOLED matrices have many ardent followers, and Full HD resolution is not yet standard in its class. Besides a perfect reproduction of the black matrix organic fits very nicely with the black housing and dark colors OnePlus X interface, so the initial impression it is very, very positive. It was only later begins to notice some compromises associated with this screen. First of all, it is not too bright. It is true that dies a little better than AMOLED LCD cope ensuring an appropriate readability in bright sunlight, but the maximum brightness of 300 nt was standard a few years ago, and on a sunny summer day will not allow fully comfortable use. The more organic screens that lose with age maximum brightness. In addition, the display OnePlus X is extremely poorly calibrated - I have not seen any smartphone so blue-white. Therefore, in the final analysis, I think we would prefer to display 720p, which would be lighter and not so blue, than 1080p screen, which sometimes just irritated. This is not to say that the display OnePlus X is bad, but we wonder if the designers OnePlus X certainly well chosen compromises.
The duration of action, which must be very careful
OnePlus X is quite an ambitious project, because it tries to close a lot of power and decent specifications in a slim, tasteful housing, but this project required some victims and one of them is the capacity of the battery. A little more than 2500 mAh is quite enough, as the hardware of such a powerful processor and AMOLED screen with this resolution. I feel it. The dark colors of the interface can significantly reduce the demand display of energy as it travels through the system, but if you set a higher brightness of the screen and start reading text on a white background (that is, for example, surf the Web), the charge indicator will shrink at an alarming rate. In a typical, fairly intensive use every day, with constantly active connection to the Internet and synchronizing data in the background, were getting about 3 hours while the screen. So you can not stress to move away from the wall for the whole day without a bank of energy. Well, at least we have not found any systemic wakelocki and OnePlus X does not waste electricity stored in a resting state, but does not change the fact that it is definitely not a long-distance runner, and you need to keep this in mind.
ailing camera
Camera OnePlus X is typical for this class of hardware resolution and not stand out with anything special. Its optics is not stabilized nor particularly bright (aperture to F / 2.2), and the camera records only standard-definition Full HD. So we already know where they were made the biggest cut costs in order to have enough money on your processor, screen and refine the quality of execution;)
Software
The camera software OnePlus X has only a very, very basic functionality. Da here to change the image resolution, enable panorama mode, HDR activated, conveniently adjust the exposure by using the pop-up slider - and that's it. In contrast to the OnePlus 2 news does not give access to Camera2 API, so installing an alternative, extensive software Play Store does not change much. A positive side effect of weight loss is a high speed camera. The interface appears almost immediately after pressing the shortcut to the tool is very fast autofocus, and shutter lag - virtually zero.
Image quality
OnePlus used in X sensor with a resolution of 12.3 megapixels it is manufactured by Samsung and uses known for its Galaxy S5 ISOCELL technology. It sounds interesting, but in practice performs at best average. Even images taken in bright light seen a considerable noise and especially the darker parts of the frame looks very nice. It also seems that during the photo developing algorithms excessively dim dark color and brighten too much light, making the effective dynamic range is very narrow. Even worse it is when the light gets less, because then reveals the problem of automation of setting too long exposure times, by which the execution nierozmazanego photos after dark it becomes a big challenge. And even if they do, it turns out that a very aggressive noise reduction softens photographs and deprives them of the details. This all together makes the camera is one of the weakest elements of OnePlus X. Under the right conditions, you can do it nice pictures (especially if they are a little minor), but in this class of equipment is no shortage of good quality 13-mp
Camera
The camera also can not say too much good. OnePlus X can not shoot at a resolution of UHD, and the quality of Full HD clips is not bluntly, poor. In addition, when it gets darker, recordings begin to lose frames like crazy, so the camera function is usable only in areas with lots of light. To sum up in one sentence: the smartphone definitely do not buy for its camera and video recording feature .
Snapdragon 801 eternally alive
This year's generation of processors Qualcomm is not the most successful, and it's not our only problem Snapdragony 808 and 810, but also about new Snapdragony series 6 and 4, which somehow does not grab their properties and performance. That is why all of us do not surprising to see the good old Snapdragon 801 OnePlus X. This system despite his age and lack of operating instructions ARMv8 is still very powerful - especially when you combine it with 3 GB of memory. The OnePlus X was a rare variant AA Snapdragon 801 (MSM8974-AA). Other Snapdragonów 801 different she clocked processor cores (2.27 GHz, instead of the more common values: 2.36 GHz and 2.45 GHz), timing of memory (800 MHz instead of 933 MHz), and - at least in theory - timing system graphic, which is also slower. In theory, since Snapdragonie OnePlus X GPU 801 is clocked at a frequency characteristic for varieties of AB and AC, which is 578 MHz, and not typical of the variety of AA, or 450 MHz. So this is a strange hybrid of a total capacity of somewhere between performance Snapdragon 800 and more typical Snapdragonów 801, known from last year's top models (and OnePlus One).
I thought it was a good choice. OnePlus X does not reach the performance of older and newer flagowców, moreover, probably was not the purpose of its creators, but it is significantly faster than competing smartphones known brands, often based on Snapdragonie 615 or 410. In addition, the designers managed to avoid aggressive throttling, so computing power remains constant and predictable. Also performance during everyday web surfing and juggling programs is satisfactory and not watched a nasty slowdowns, losing frames of animation or problems with memory management. It is in all but one. Misconfigured manager GPU in some demanding games for some reason has a tendency to slow down the GPU clock up to 200 MHz, resulting in a disastrous performance (the main victim is the game Asphalt 8). We hope that it will be quickly repaired and then OnePlus X becomes whether to be from the beginning, that is acceptably fast clipper to play in the means of communication and where is;)
Summary
OnePlus X is a very attractive smartphone, which, however, once again proves that you can not have everything. On the one hand, really hard to find in similarly priced phone that would be so well-made, had such a good performance, AMOLED screen with this resolution, the pure Android and two seats on the SIM card. On the other hand, easy to find in similarly priced phone with a better camera, longer operating on battery power, equipped with a clearer sun screen and more refined software, and not those that accidentally lost word "beta version". In other words, we do not hide it very liked OnePlus X, because it really is for what, but not enough, we looked at his faults through rose-colored glasses So is ultimately worth it? Yes, if you do not mind all the hooks and compromises. Before you purchase so you'll need to prepare your own list of priorities, and see how they relate to the advantages and disadvantages of the latest model OnePlus. If X's choose with full knowledge and acceptance of his limitations, it is a good chance that it will meet expectations. However, if you choose it just because of the magic numbers in its specification, then after a while you can feel a little cheated and disappointed. Well, life is the art of the election and no one said that the choice of the smartphone must be easy.
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