Proof that One. Plus is here to stay. One. Plus burst onto the scene in 2. One. Plus One, a phone running Cyanogen OS with an incredibly attractive price tag. If youre flying anywhere for the Labor Day holiday, nows the time to book. Prices are only going to go up. Youve probably heard the general advice for the best. OnePlus burst onto the scene in 2014 with the OnePlus One, a phone running Cyanogen OS with an incredibly attractive price tag. From the very start, OnePlu. Ryan. Clare Hollingworth. La storia di Clare Hollingworth, grande giornalistaChi era Clare Hollingworth, a lei Google dedica il doodle di oggi. Keycaps 600 Download Chrome' title='Keycaps 600 Download Chrome' />From the very start, One. Plus talked a big game and was sometimes annoyingly overconfident. The success of that first phone ensured wed see at least a few more phones from One. Plus. There have been some ups and downs since the One. Plus One launched, but the trajectory has been upward overall. The One. Plus 5 has the most refined design this company has ever put out, but at the same time it would be impossible to ignore the resemblance to the i. Phone. Youll hear a lot about that, but it doesnt really matter. The One. Plus 5 is the best phone One. Plus has made yet thanks to mature software, great battery life, and exceptional performance. The benefits of One. Plus i. Phone y camera might be somewhat overstated, but you cant argue with the full package. Design. Just like the One. Plus 3 and 3. T, the One. Plus 5 has a sturdy unibody aluminum frame. There were some leaks of this design in recent weeks, and almost everyone noted how i. Phone y the back of the OP5 looked. While theres definitely a resemblance, I dont think its as strong in person. The dual camera module is in the same place, but the way it fits into the frame is different. The curved antenna lines on the back that follow the contour of the top and bottom are more a direct copy of the i. Sano Motoharu No Damage Rare. Phone. Although, theyre also an interesting visual element on an otherwise understated chassis. I guess if youre going to borrow, you might as well borrow the right stuff. The rest of the rear is just smooth anodized aluminum with a One. Plus logo stamped in the center. The overall shape of the One. Plus 5 is what saves it from looking too much like an i. Phone clone, and this isnt something that comes across well in photos or renders. You might recall, the One. Plus 33. T had a sharp ridge that ran around the edge of the device. That ridge is still present on the OP5, but its subtler and smoother. Imagine the One. Plus 3. T a touch rounder and smaller, and youve got the One. Plus 5. It does feel much more natural to hold thanks to the smoother lines. The One. Plus 5 is only a few grams lighter than the OP3. T 1. 53 vs 1. 58g. However, the OP5 seems balanced better. This is a minor thing, but One. Plus included a vastly improved vibration motor in this years phone. I always felt like the OP3 was a little weak in that department, but the One. Plus 5 motor is stronger and still whisper quiet. One. Plus 5 left vs. One. Plus 3. T rightOn the right edge is the power button, and opposite that on the left are a volume rocker and the standard OP notification slider. The bottom position is ring, the middle is do not disturb, and the top is silent mode. The slider feels solid and has a nice tactile click when you move it. You can also control the specific options for each mode in the system settings, which is a nice touch. On the bottom edge weve got the USB Type C port, a speaker, and a headphone jack yay. Audio quality on the One. Plus 5 has been average for me. The bottom firing speaker is loud and clear enough for general use, but it distorts at high volume. I do like the tiny exposed torx screws on either side of the USB port. From the front, the One. Plus 5 looks almost exactly like the OP3. T. The earpiece grille at the top is a bit larger, as is the fingerprint sensor. The sensor is the same basic shape, though. Even the bezel proportions are the same this yearthe top and bottom are similar to the Pixels bezels, but the left and right are narrower. The fingerprint sensor embedded in the home button beneath the screen on the One. Plus 5 is fantasticOne. Plus still has one of the fastest and most accurate fingerprint sensors around. I mean, ita almost suspiciously fast. Maybe OP is using some Oppo technology here You dont have to hold your finger on the sensor for any substantial length of time just press like you would press the home button and itll recognize your fingerprint the sensor doubles as the capacitive home button. I personally prefer rear facing fingerprint sensors, but I cant deny this one is best in class. The only downside is that any skin contact with the sensor triggers it. There have been many times I picked up the phone and felt it vibrate. Id check the screen thinking I had received a notification, only to realize I had brushed the sensor with my hand. The vibration was simply the phone rejecting the pattern. On either side of the home button are capacitive soft keys for back and overview. The order defaults to the correct Android order of back on the left and overview on the right. However, the buttons dont have the traditional icons, theyre just dots. Thats the same design used on the OP3, and I didnt like it then either. The One. Plus 5 even takes a small step backward by making the backlighting dimmer and blue tinted. That makes it hard to see where the buttons are in bright light, and the backlight doesnt even come on unless youve just tapped one of the three nav buttons. The buttons have reasonably large hitboxes, but I still miss sometimes, especially in the dark where I have nothing to help estimate where on the bezel Im tapping. If youre as annoyed by this as I am, the One. Plus 5 supports software nav buttons. Im pleased OP is still offering this as an option. Display. The One. Plus 5 has a 5. 5 inch AMOLED display at 1. That will probably come as a relief to those who worried One. Plus pursuit of big specs would harm battery life. Frankly, One. Plus would probably have increased the resolution if it wasnt for the supply constraint and thus high prices of AMOLED panels right now. Last years One. Plus flagship lost some points for having a mediocre display, but that was mostly due to the out of the box calibration. The default calibration on the OP5 is still not very good. It really blows out the colors, especially green. There are several calibration options in the settings default, s. RGB, DCI P3, and custom. Custom has a slider that lets you adjust the temperature, but thats it. On this panel, I prefer the way DCI P3 looks. The colors arent neon bright, but still a little richer than s. RGB mode. If you want the most accurate, stick with s. RGB. As for clarity, this is a pentile AMOLED panel at 5. If you are hyper aware of that, you can see slight fringing and pixelation around text and icons. For the most part, I dont think this is a problem. The One. Plus 5 wont look fantastic in VR, but theres no support for Daydream right now, so it would only be Cardboard content that disappoints. And thats usually pretty disappointing all on its own. The viewing angles are nearly perfect, with no gap between the glass and the AMOLED panel. Theres no dimming or color casting at off angles until you get almost completely perpendicular to the screen. Even then, its just a little red shift. Theres also a reading mode that can be easier on the eyes, but its not as fancy as OP would have you believe. This is just a grayscale filter that changes tone based on ambient light. Overall, Im happy with the screen on the One. Plus 5. Adding more calibration options out of the gate takes care of the biggest issue with the One. Plus 3 last year. I think Id personally still prefer 1. And yet, One. Plus approach here is understandable. The 1. 08. 0p AMOLED keeps the price down and saves power while looking good enough. Performance and battery. The One. Plus 5 comes in two variants a gray one with 6. GB of RAM and 6. 4GB of storage, and a black phone with 8. GB of RAM and 1. 28. GB of storage. To be clear, our review unit is the black version with 8. GB of RAM. I cannot say how much of a difference that extra RAM makes, but I can say the OP5 keeps apps in memory very well. This was a problem with the One. Plus 3 when it launched. Despite having a healthy amount of RAM, apps were closing quickly to save battery. Here, theres no such issue. A Thrilling Game Where You Can Impact The Course Of Art History. Check your balances of wool and linen. Will you sell them to the merchant from Milan or the one from Venice Oh, also, the church wants you to buy some of their overpriced alum. Do you accept These are the questions that ART Mecenas asks while you try to build your banking empire during the Italian renaissance. Develop your reputation as a banking boss and eliminate other competing families, and also, change the course of art history by choosing what works to commission, all within a turn based strategy game. You play as a member of the Medici family who is starting a bank in Florence. You can check the map to see your standing with other city state governments, and you can purchase items from the market to sell. Each turn, youll be presented with three messages, asking you to sell something, buy something, or commission an art piece. Occasionally, you will get special events that can significantly impact your reputation. You have to balance your relationship with merchants, various governments, and the Catholic Church in order to keep your business afloat. As you play the game, you need to watch your reputation level, which represents your standing in the community, and your soul level, which represents your piousness. If your reputation level depletes to 0, you will be exiled, and if your soul level depletes to 0, you will be excommunicated from the church so failure to maintain high levels of both means game over. This game definitely taught me more about economics and finances than it taught me about art history. In the beginning of my playthrough, I was making poor buying and selling decisions. I found that by checking the market price for items and comparing it to the desired buyingselling price of the merchants, that I could determine what was a good decision or not. But even if you manage to avoid bad buying and selling decisions, this still may impact your reputation. For example, choosing to trade with Milan but not Venice may impact your relationships with those city states. My playthrough was challenging from the get go. By the end of Level 1, it wanted me to have a soul and reputation of 4. This goal was a tad overwhelming for Level 1 of the game, and I had to retry several times in order to progress. I tried to keep up my reputation and soul meters in Level 2, but after I was exiled from Florence by some business rivals, I was unable to recover. When I was exiled, my reputation took a significant hit, and the citizens of Florence continued to hurt my reputation even after that. I replayed Level 2 over and over again, unable to advance despite my best attempts. Despite that, I still enjoyed the game. I liked being able to manage my resources, make money, and also manage my business relationships with other merchants and city states. Turn based games usually dont hold my attention for very long, but I was glued to this game for a few hours. The games were designed to be supplemental material for college level art history courses to teach students about the relationships between local and international economies, and how those economies influenced the arts during this time period. As a recent college graduate, I can definitely say I wish that part of my learning had involved interactive content like ART Mecenas. Triseum also has an open world exploration game called Variant, which seeks to teach students calculus through solving puzzles. You can only play the game if youre a student affiliated with a university that has purchased the game. In August, Triseum will launch a new store where any individual can purchase any of their games. ART Mecenas will be available for both Mac and PCs, and can also be played in a Google Chrome browser. You can check out the companys full list of games here. Update August 2. ART Mecenas along with Variant Limits are now available for direct purchase on Triseums online store.