Hardware

On the hardware front the Oneplus 5 is the ultimate winner, even against the likes of the flagship phones in the Samsung Galaxy S8 as well as the LG G6. The phone is lightning fast in between the transitions and the animations too are buttery smooth. It is like the speed limit is removed off the Samsung Galaxy S8. The S8 suffers in terms of the extra added animations due to the company's newly and beautifully customised TouchWiz UI . But the younger company in Oneplus has opted for minimalism and speed rather than beauty in animations. The phone is a beast in itself and runs a pure Android version of Nougat, 7.1.2 on the company's Oxygen OS with some minimal yet useful tweaks. The phone installs the apps at a speed never seen before and all thanks to the newly used UFS 2.1 storage. All this coupled with 8 gigs of RAM and a newly launched and latest Snapdragon 835 processor, I bet you won't ever experience a lag in its performance even at the heaviest of the usage. It brings all things possible out of Android at your feet. In terms of charging the Oneplus has maintained its motto of "speed first" in that case as well. With the support of dash charging, which debuted on the Oneplus 3, the Oneplus charged from approx. 9% to 75% in under  30 mins time. The only downfall of this is that the Oneplus dash charge can not be compensated for the use of Snapdragon's quick charge support. You need to have a Oneplus qualified charger and a USB cable to make the use of Oneplus' dash charge feature which comes as very big blow for the users who prefer to have a USB type-c  charger both the laptop and the mobile. In addition to the massive 8 gigs of RAM and an ecstatic storage coupled with the latest and most powerful Snapdragon 835 chipset, the Oneplus 5 also brings forth the Bluetooth 5 with AptX HD support.