The OnePlus One Review
by Joshua Ho on November 19, 2014 8:00 AM EST- Posted in
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Video Performance
On the video side of things, we see a relatively standard array of formats and bit-rates. For 1080p video, one can choose between 30 and 60 FPS for 20 and 38 Mbps baseline H.264, respectively. There's also 4K DCI and 4K UHD video recording, which are at 24 and 30 FPS respectively. In the case of 4K DCI (4096x2160) it seems that the bit rate is at 62 Mbps while 4K UHD (3840x2160) is at 60 Mbps. Like both 1080p formats, this seems to be also encoded in H.264 baseline instead of high profile, which is a bit strange. The 720p120 format ends up being encoded as a 30fps file for 1/4th time slow motion, and uses 14 Mbps H.264 baseline.
In the case of 1080p30, quality is relatively good although there continues to be a great deal of noise present throughout the video. There isn't any obvious macroblocking though. The EIS performance is definitely a bit disappointing, as there really isn't much in the way of compensation for hand-shake or other unintended motion.
Similar to the 1080p30 sample, it's clear that the quality of the encoded video is quite good with relatively few obvious artifacts. Unfortunately, the sensor is being pushed a bit far here as the amount of noise present is significant. In addition, EIS seems to be completely absent here as it's pretty much impossible to see what's happening unless I'm standing still. Overall, quality should be great but the Galaxy Note 4 and other phones with OIS will be much better for video.
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MadDuffy - Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - link
Thanks for your review.Some corrections on page one specs: MHL not supported and BT 4.0 (not 4.1).
anneoneamouse - Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - link
"Reception, at least for T-Mobile US' band 4/AWS LTE is noticeably worse than most devices that I've tried."This would seem to be a significant issue; yet this one-line detail is buried under the "misc" section, and not discussed in the conclusions at all. Three pages are devoted to analysis and discussion of photo / video quality, which for most users are likely to be secondary functions.
It's a phone; can I use it to speak clearly to a client? If not, I'll look elsewhere.
AoN.
DoktorSleepless - Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - link
Yes, this needs some serious elaboration.Cinnabuns - Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - link
I agree. Especially with all the praise and in-depth look given to the Moto X's cellular reception on this site, it would be helpful if all phones reviewed had a small section describing its reception characteristics.Harry_Wild - Thursday, November 20, 2014 - link
As a T-Mobile customer; this reception quality is top priority for picking a phone! LTE is for most data until T-Mobile changes it to Voice over Internet using LTE band. But that will be in middle 2015 and later.It not a hardware problem; it a software problem so One Plus should be able to fix it with T-Mobile's assistance.
Conficio - Friday, November 21, 2014 - link
@Harry, how come you are sure this is a software issue. Could be bad placement of the antenna or bad antenna design in general. Also, I think we don't know if the issue is limited to T-Mobile. That was just the network he tested it on.You make a good point though, if this is an LTE issue (which the article does not say), then in 2015 this phone on T-Mobile goes from good voice and bad data to issues for both.
More questions: There were software updates mentioned. Did those affect the reception issues? And did they swap out the baseband?
Conficio - Friday, November 21, 2014 - link
That also made me really nervous. I'm a T-Mobile customer and really need to know how he did notice this. I have seen some good cellular comparison tests in the past on Anandtech. Please lets get some objective comparison or at least some more detail on how this does effect the phone? Indoors, outdoors, calls dropped or not starting, get no reception where other phones have reception. Any reaction by the company?Munna2002 - Friday, November 21, 2014 - link
I am a T-Mobile customer with an OPO. My family also all use OPOs. We have no problems with LTE speeds in the NYC Metro area, although we do not have the T-Mobile Wifi calling app, which requires messing with the bootloader and kernels from what I understand.jmasterj - Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - link
This review is missing an important section that always appeared in Klug's phone reviews: network performance. There's one anecdote about how it performed on T-Mobile's LTE, but nowhere are listed even the HSPA or LTE bands supported by this device. It would be nice to see testing in this area.pjcamp - Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - link
Since you took the time to review this vaporphone, perhaps you could also do the Xperia Z3?