ISSUE 66 • ANDROID ADVISOR 71BUYING GUIDEBut for the rest of the world, for the normal people
out there, this is one of the best phones you can buy.
It just isn’t, in context, anything new or exciting. But
maybe that’s just today’s phones in general.
Design
The OnePlus 6T looks a lot like the OnePlus 6 and
we compare them here. But for a moment, let’s
pretend the 6 doesn’t exist.
The 6T has a premium glass design and you can
have any colour as long as it’s black: Mirror Black
(gloss) or Midnight Black (matte). It’s gently curved on
the back and is a comfortable weight to hold, though
the curve coupled with the tiniest of camera bumps
meansit doesrockwhenusedflatona table.
It hasa dew‑drop shaped notch at the top of
its large 6.41in display that houses a camera, while
the speaker is a slit right on the top edge of the
phone. We had to adjust how we hold the phone for
calls to line it up to our ears properly, but this is an
issue with many notched phones that don’t house
the speaker in a top bezel.
The back panel houses dual cameras and the
OnePlus logo, while the antenna lines are hidden
inthealuminiumframe.
Witha USB‑C port and no headphone jack in all
black, the OnePlus 6T suffers a tad from the black
rectangle syndrome of modern smartphones. In a line
up,it blendsinwiththeLGV40,Pixel3 XLandSony
XperiaXZ3asanall‑glass black slab.
The loss of that headphone jack jars more than
with other manufacturers since it was only five months