Oneplus 5T

20-hour battery life, anyone?

Despite adding only one letter to last year’s Oneplus 5 (see our review, Issue 506), the 5T feels like a new phone. The glitchy wide-angle/telephoto dual camera has been replaced, while the front gets a wider-than-widescreen 18:9 AMOLED screen reminiscent of the iphone X.

Unlike Apple’s phone, Oneplus has left a small border at the top and bottom instead of taking a weird chunk out of the screen. The result is a phone just a fraction bigger than the Oneplus 5 with an impressively huge screen that’s sharp and vivid, though not as bright as pricier rivals. The fingerprint reader has been moved to the back. Youou can also use face recognition (but ononly to unlock the phone, not for payments),nts),nt which works well. We missed the prevpreviousevious camera’s zoom, but two new wide-de-angle lenses give very clear pictureses even in low lightlight, plus blurred-background effect (called ‘bokeh’) and stabilised 4K video.

Android 7 (expect a free upgrade to 8 soon) runs impeccably on the eight- core Snapdragon 835 processor, which is as fast as any phone. As before the battery lasted over 20 hours in our video-playback test. There’s still no microsd card slot, but 64GB of storage will be enough for most people and a 128GB version is available for a very reasonable £50 extra. The only disappointment is that the 5T still isn’t waterproof.

There’s nothing quite like the 5T in this price bracket, but that’s about to change as Huawei’s Honor View 10 (£449 from www.snipca.com/26486) arrives in the UK with similar specifications.

VERDICT: It looks a bit like Darth Vader, but is small enough to ignore and unlike Y-cam offers free storage (for 24 hours)

★★★★☆

ALTERNATIVE: Somfy Securitycurity Camera £151 This even smaller model lacks the alarm but has a similar shutter and supports most of the same features