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The OnePlus 15 color variants are made from different materials! Get up to 47% off your Ridge Wallet HERE: https://www.ridge.com/... Huge thanks to Ridge for making the products I use every day and for sponsoring this video. The New OnePlus 15 comes in 3 colors. Two of the Colors have Glass backs, and the 3rd color, the OnePlus 15 Sandstorm - is plastic.
Plastic is not bad of course! I prefer plastic since it does not shatter like glass. Its just good to know what your phone is made of.
Plastic is not bad of course! I prefer plastic since it does not shatter like glass. Its just good to know what your phone is made of.
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00:00The weirdest thing I've ever seen OnePlus advertise is that here on their new flagship,
00:04they have a vapor chamber that can be torn apart by your bare hands. You know,
00:08the thing that keeps your processor cool is now as strong as the post-it note,
00:12and it'll be curious to find out why this is a good thing. I would bet that out of the 8 billion
00:17people on this planet, not a single person has ever asked for a cooling system they could split
00:21like a pop tart, but since OnePlus is offering, I would like to be the first to see if the claim
00:26is valid. I purchased this sandstorm variant of the OnePlus 15 for my durability test,
00:32but it turns out OnePlus has changed far more than just the vapor chamber, and it is way more durable
00:37than I expected. The metal frame feels absolutely exquisite. OnePlus has added a new surface finish
00:43to the metal called micro arc oxidation, and they say this coating is 3.4 times tougher than aluminum
00:50and 1.3 times tougher than titanium. The metal feels like soft touch glass, and I'm a fan.
00:57Even though I always have the case on my phone. OnePlus is using Gorilla Glass Victus 2 on the
01:02front screen. We can work our way up through the Mohs scale of hardness. Seeing scratches at a level 3
01:08would mean plastic, and that'll be relevant here in a second. Levels 8 or 9 would be sapphire, but we
01:14haven't seen that in a long while. This OnePlus 15 has very visible scratches at a level 6 with deeper
01:20grooves at a level 7. Kind of nifty how the background changes every time I unlock the phone.
01:25The front facing camera is 32 megapixels and is protected with the same slab of Gorilla Glass
01:30Victus 2. The earpiece slit is razor thin and sits right between the screen and the frame. Speaking of
01:36which, this new micro arc oxidation is actually pretty awesome. Yeah, the tip of my razor blade can still
01:46do damage, but the MAO coating is far thicker and far more resilient than anodizing. It's actually
01:53resisting my razor blade, which means that in real life the micro arc coating will handle normal scrapes
01:58and bumps far better than anodizing. Micro arc oxidation feels like the strongest coating ever
02:04applied to a smartphone, and I hope we see more of it in the future. Being partially impervious to
02:09razor blades is about to put me out of a job. The bottom of the OnePlus 15 has our 80 watt USB-C
02:18charging port, lower stereo loudspeaker, as well as a dual sided SIM card tray that has a red rubber ring for
02:24the IP69 water resistant rating. And yes, it is IP69 instead of IP68 like everyone else.
02:33This OnePlus 15 is far more water resistant than any iPhone or Samsung on the market. Huge thumbs up for
02:39that. OnePlus is so far ahead in the waterproofing game that their only competition is with themselves
02:44on last year's OnePlus 13, which is also an impressive IP69. Nice. One thing that surprised me
02:51though was that my razor blade was leaving marks on the back panel of the Sandstorm colored OnePlus 15.
02:57So it looks like my job isn't going anywhere after all. After seeing MKBHD's video about the
03:03invincible glass on his phone, I am shook that my own phone is more shredded than the cheese on Taco
03:09Tuesday. Turns out OnePlus has put a fiber reinforced plastic panel on the Sandstorm variant,
03:15while the infinite black and ultraviolet colored versions have glass. Also fun fact, the USA just
03:21released a new quarter and for the first time ever it shows a person using a wheelchair on the face.
03:26Her name is Stacy Park Milburn. You might start seeing these in circulation. Quarters can also
03:32scratch the plastic. There's nothing wrong with plastic of course, but plastic will take damage if
03:36it comes in contact with something abrasive. And personally, I prefer plastic. Even though it might
03:42scratch I feel like it's more durable overall since it won't ever shatter. Cracked glass would bother me
03:47way more than a scratch on plastic. Even my new cool digital scribing tool leaves marks. And thankfully
03:53the camera lens covers are not plastic. The top 50 megapixel main camera is protected by the same piece
03:58of glass as the lower 50 megapixel telephoto. And the 50 megapixel wide angle camera is over on the upper
04:04right side of the camera plateau in a glass circle all by itself. The dual tone tri LED flash is also
04:10protected with glass. The camera bump has more of that thick micro arc oxidation coated metal.
04:15It's just as shocked as we are to learn that the back panel is plastic.
04:19Longevity is important. I like to keep all of my devices for a really long time. For example,
04:25this is my 7 year old titanium Ridge wallet that I've carried in my pocket every day. Ridge has
04:30graciously offered to sponsor this video as I finally bring myself to upgrade. I could have obviously
04:35used Ridge's lifetime warranty to replace the worn out straps since replacement parts and screws are
04:41free forever. And I probably still will. But Ridge just dropped their second generation wallet. It's
04:4610% lighter, more modular, and Ridge is having their biggest sale of the year right now on some of their
04:51wallets with up to 47% off. I switched to a front pocket Ridge wallet more than half a decade ago because
04:58my back was hurting and I've never looked back. I also use the Ridge 45 watt dual USB-C port power adapter
05:04when I travel. It's got 2 ports and comes with 2 USB-C cables – 3 foot and 6 foot. It's way easier
05:10to doom scroll with a longer cable – trust me. I'm starting to realize that my favorite color at the
05:15moment is probably orange. But Ridge has sold over 5 million wallets and there's a design out there
05:21for everyone. Some even include MagSafe magnets to connect with your iPhone. Get up to 47% off with a
05:27link in the description or head to ridge.com slash jerryrig. You don't got to take my word for it though.
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05:44The 6.8 inch screen on the OnePlus 15 is 165Hz, which means it's great for gaming and can dim as
05:51low as half a nit for nighttime scrolling. And for some reason it is unaffected by the heat from my lighter.
05:57No complaints on my end. I am curious though if the plastic back is going to affect the
06:02structural integrity at all. Bending the OnePlus 15 from the back leaves us with no flex. However,
06:08flipping it around to the front with my thumbs on the screen, it does start to flex ever so slightly.
06:13And I feel like the camera bump is lifting against the plastic a little bit. But nothing that would
06:18insinuate that the IP69 waterproof rating is compromised. I imagine if we stopped right now,
06:24the OnePlus 15 would go on to live a long, happy, watertight life if we stopped right now.
06:30Unfortunately for OnePlus, they did make a claim that only I can verify and I wouldn't want to
06:36leave you guys hanging. Is the OnePlus 15's 360 degree cryo velocity cooling system really able to
06:43be ripped in half by bare hands? Nobody has ever asked nor has anybody ever cared, but the claim has
06:49been made and now needs to be verified. I got you. Plus, plastic backed smartphones are way easier to
06:54take apart than glass backed counterparts. I end up with fewer glass slivers in my fingers.
06:59The camera plateau is clipped very securely into the motherboard plastics. I imagine the clips are
07:04there to hold it in place since there's no rigid glass being rigid. I should probably turn it off at
07:09this point. I'll remove the 8 screws at the bottom, 10 screws at the top, all Phillips head. My tool kit is
07:15linked down in the description. I'll unclip the triple LED camera flash and NFC pad from the main
07:20board. This black plastic protects the motherboard as well as has the circular copper coils for the
07:2550 watt wireless charging pad. There is no red battery and some of you aren't even old enough to
07:29remember that reference. But there is a whopping dual cell 7300 milliamp hour battery, which is just
07:36a smidgen behind the 7500 milliamp hour battery in the Red Magic 11 Pro. It's also basically twice the
07:43capacity of the battery in the iPhone 17, but who's counting? I am. The pull tabs are strong enough
07:49to pull the battery out by themselves. Nice work for that OnePlus. It also says lithium ion battery
07:54on the cell itself, but OnePlus is calling it a silicon carbon nanostack battery.
08:02Under the battery we do get our first look at that hand terrible vapor chamber. It's still pinned under the
08:07rest of the components though, so I don't have full access to it yet. The lower loudspeaker comes out next.
08:12It has a little sticker covering the trap door which reveals the OnePlus 15 does have balls inside,
08:18and plenty of them. Moving up to the motherboard, I'll unplug two long extension ribbons and two of
08:23the wire signal cables. There's another singular black screw in the center of the motherboard that
08:27holds the whole thing down. The front facing 32 megapixel camera apparently has a custom RGBW
08:33sensor with a white pixel to help improve the low light performance, but the rear cameras do not have
08:38that extra white pixel inside. The main 50 megapixel camera does have optical image stabilization along
08:44with the 50 megapixel 3.5x telephoto, but the 50 megapixel wide angle camera does not, which is
08:51pretty normal. Finally, we start to see the 360 degree cooling system that OnePlus says is terrible.
08:57And by terrible, I'm speaking of its ripability and not its capability. There is some regular thermal paste
09:02on the backside of the motherboard. This conductively connects the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 to the vapor
09:08chamber. Underneath that thermal paste and the copper shielding is some blue thermal compound. The
09:12blue coloring comes from the extract of the milk in Star Wars. But alas, we still cannot get to the
09:18terrible vapor chamber itself. The lower charging port board with its 80 watt USB-C port comes out next.
09:24This has a red rubber ring around the tip to maintain the IP66, IP68, IP69, and IP69K
09:31water resistance ratings. This guy's basically a submarine. We also see the rectangular haptic
09:36vibration motor below the charging port board. However, it's at this point that we come to a
09:41crossroad. The vapor chamber is stuck under the screen. And if we remove the screen, the phone dies.
09:47Since this is a serious discussion, I'll put it up to a team vote. Let me know down in the comments if we
09:52should continue the autopsy even if it means certain doom for the phone. I'll give you a second to
09:57decide and thank you for your vote. Let's get rid of the screen. With the screen lifted up, the vapor
10:02chamber and its graphite coating is now visible. And it is indeed extremely large. I assume that OnePlus
10:08wants the vapor chamber to be thin enough to be terrible so it can transfer heat quicker to the
10:13vapor inside since the phase change of the vapor in the vapor chamber is what's doing the heavy lifting
10:19when it comes to cooling the phone. So the quicker the heat gets there the better. And would you look
10:23at that, the vapor chamber of the OnePlus 15 is in fact terrible. I'm glad we checked. Totally worth it.
10:33Just like the sale at Ridge.com slash JerryRig up to 47% off. Nice work OnePlus and thanks a ton for watching.
10:40I'll see you around.
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