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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 in the aluminium frame. With a 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 blends in with the LG V40, Pixel 3 XL and Sony Xperia XZ3 as an all-glass black slab.
Swapsies The loss of that headphone jack jars more than with other manufacturers since it was only five months prior to the 6T’s release that co-founder Carl Pei stood on a stage to announce the OnePlus 6 and claimed people still really wanted one. OnePlus told us it was time to remove it on the 6T, in part to fit the in-screen fingerprint sensor. The company is between a rock and a hard place – its fanatical community probably wants a headphone jack but the wider public don’t actually care en masse, evident in the acceptance of iPhones without jacks since 2016. It’s the latter market that OnePlus desperately needs to sell to now to break into the mainstream, helped by operator partnerships.
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Removing the headphone jack to fit in a snazzy piece of tech is the decision. But the big question is, like with the Huawei Mate 20 Pro, does the sensor actually work? The short answer is yes, complete with funky software animations. It’s not quite as fast as most decent physical fingerprint sensors, including the one on the OnePlus 6. On the 6T it worked through the factory-installed screen protector which we then took off to test again and it seemed fine.
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It just takes that split second longer than you might expect. We also ended up re-training the phone twice to read our thumbs and then it seems fine. It’s less good at edge detection than physical sensors and you have to place your thumbprint quite flat. But it’s amazing that it even works in the first place, and it’s secure enough to use for biometrics. It’s not as fast as face unlock which we found ourselves using more and even works well in the dark, but you’ll still need to rely on the fingerprint sensor for secure transactions and app authentication.
It’s notable that OnePlus still won’t give the 6T an official IP rating, though it did tell us the phone is ‘water resistant’ and uses silicone rings and foam in ports and buttons to prevent water damage. During our testing, our 6T unit took an accidental tumble (in a case, thankfully) into a toilet. Apart from being ashamed at our bathroom habits, at least we know the phone can survive such a dunk. This is a slick smartphone and we prefer the matte black finish to the gloss option, but like most other black slabs out there it’s nothing and comes at a time where smartphone design has been largely reactive to the iPhone X. This notched display with no home button or physical fingerprint sensor is evidence of that. McLaren Edition Since the release of the 6T OnePlus has quickly launched a special McLaren Edition in partnership with the famous car firm.
The £649/$699 handset is glossy black with carbon fibre detailing visible under the rear glass and an orange stripe on the rear edge fading up the sides, echoing McLaren’s papaya orange livery. You can only get it with 256GB storage and it also has 10GB RAM – more than the 6 or 8GB of the regular models. Every phone comes packaged in a collaborative book with a case and 30W charger that can charge the phone even faster than other models. OnePlus has confirmed that only the McLaren Edition can charge this fast with the Warp Charge 30 charger, it’s not backwards compatible.
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