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REVIEW: The OnePlus 5T is not only a bargain — it's the best Android phone you can buy at any price

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The new OnePlus 5T is an excellent smartphone, but one thing about it stands out from the rest: its $500 price.

That amount is near the top of what OnePlus has charged for its past smartphones. But it's hundreds of dollars cheaper than other top-of-the-line devices — many of the latest flagship smartphones, including Apple's iPhone X and Samsung's Galaxy Note 8, cost more than $900.

Given that, you could be forgiven for thinking OnePlus made some serious compromises with the 5T to get its price so comparatively low. But you would be wrong.

While the 5T has some trade-offs, they aren't meaningful. And I'd recommend the new phone even if it were to cost as much as its rivals.

Check out the OnePlus 5T:

The OnePlus 5T looks great.

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Designwise, the 5T doesn't stand out. But that's a good thing.

It has most of the latest features of other contemporary phones, including narrow top and bottom borders around its screen, as well as a metallic back. Those elements make for a minimalistic, almost generic design. It's functional, not flashy.

What is noticeable, though, is the thinness of the 5T compared with that of other top Android phones. On paper, the 7.3-mm-thick 5T may not seem that much thinner than Google's 7.9-mm Pixel 2 XL or Samsung's 8.6-mm Galaxy Note 8. But those fractions of a millimeter make a difference.

That thinness combined with its light weight make the 5T supremely comfortable to use.

The 5T's screen is great, especially considering the device's price.

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The 5T's display is on par with those of other top Android smartphones. It has a 6-inch Amoled screen with an 18:9 aspect ratio. That's more elongated than the typical smartphone screen from as recently as last year.

Some spec-scrutinizers may think the 1080p resolution on the 5T's display doesn't match up well with the 1440p resolution offered on most other flagship Android devices. But you'd be hard-pressed to notice much of a difference when comparing the phones side by side.

The 5T's display is beautiful. Its vibrant colors and brightness and contrast levels equal those of displays of phones that cost $350 more.

The phone's performance is stellar.

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Hiding underneath the 5T's minimalist outer shell are specs that are as good or better than those of most of its rivals.

Like many of its newest competitors, the 5T includes Qualcomm's powerful Snapdragon 835 processor. But it has more memory than most of its rivals. Most top Android smartphones come with 4 GB of RAM, whereas the base model of the 5T has 6 GB and the top model has a whopping 8 GB.

Typically, the more memory a device has, the faster it can switch among apps. And the 5T's extra RAM may make a difference if you customize your phone with software that offers a greater range of Android design and setting options.

I've been testing the higher-end model of the 5T, which costs $560 and comes with 128 GB of storage and 8 GB of RAM. I haven't noticed much of a difference in performance from the Pixel 2 XL, which has the same processor and half the RAM.

But I'm not going to complain about the extra memory, especially given that it's included in the 5T's sub-$600 price.

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