We tested the OnePlus 6, the smartphone Porsche

The Chinese group is launching its latest model, faithful to its philosophy of offering smartphones half the price of the heavyweights in the sector.

• The brand:

Hard to consider OnePlus as a commonplace manufacturer of lambda smartphones. Even if the brand is young (it was created in 2013 by executives of Oppo, number one smartphones in China), it already has its history and its feats of arms. His first models, sold only by invitation, were so successful that the company was out of stock. And every new launch comes with rumors and leaks. Moreover, at OnePlus, we do not speak of users but of "fans". Its leaders constantly remind that it is by listening to their suggestions that it evolves its products. Which products are based on a simple recipe: sell at half the price of heavyweight sector an Android mobile equipped with the most powerful components. As a result, the latest models of the brand, elegant and incredibly fast, can be compared to Porsche cars.

• The last model:

Launched last week with the slogan "The speed you need", the OnePlus 6 is equipped with Qualcomm's most powerful processor, the Snapdragon 845, and its battery recharges at a glance (30 min for 8 hours of autonomy). Particularly pleasant to use, it is also quite elegant with its beautiful 6.2 inch Oled screen that displays 2280 × 1080 points and its glass back. Like the last iPhone, it has a notch at the top of the front to accommodate the camera and the speaker. And, like the iPhone X, the camera also serves to unlock the device by facial recognition, with impressive speed and efficiency. This does not prevent this model from being equipped, on the back, with an equally effective fingerprint sensor. Its camera gives excellent results thanks to its very bright double lens, which, in portrait mode, isolates a face and blurs the background, and allows you to shoot videos with high-performance optical stabilization. Attention: as the memory is not extensible, it will be necessary to choose the best adapted model 

605$  in its basic version (64 GB of memory) and up to 721$  with 256 GB of memory.