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At 6.41-inches it’s sure to satisfy media-lovers, mobile photographers and gamers. The extended Full HD resolution renders everything with perfect sharpness and colours only really suffer from distortion at the most unusual of angles. As with its predecessor, the 6T supports the full DCI-P3 wide colour gamut and the company’s thrown in options for a variety other colour spaces too, such as sRGB, as well as a warm night and monochrome reading mode feature. The use of an AMOLED panel is appreciated too, ensuring great contrast and deep blacks, which again helps when enjoying video. We’re yet to see HDR support on a OnePlus device and I wonder whether it has anything to do with the brightness output of the displays the company uses.

While I didn’t have any real issues using the OnePlus 6T in bright environments, other phones definitely go brighter. What’s more, with adaptive brightness enabled, the phone would regularly set the screen too dim based on the surrounding light. Assuming this issue isn’t localised to my experience, OnePlus can easily rectify this with a software update.

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HDR support meanwhile, will likely have to wait for a future device. The OnePlus 6 was our first taste of a notched screen from the company, with the 6T, the notch is less-intrusive and far more aesthetically pleasing. Similarly to the Oppo F9 or the ‘dewdrop’ notch found on the Huawei Mate 20, the top bezel of the phone features a small rounded divot that neatly conceals its 16-megapixel front-facing camera and earpiece. The 6T does support face unlock but this is solely achieved using that single RGB camera and thus far less secure than the IR dot projection method used by the likes of Apple’s Face ID. Thankfully, while you still have the option of face unlock, you’re not limited to it. In a play that keeps the 6T as part of the cutting-edge smartphone crowd, the phone also integrates an in-display fingerprint sensor. A stylised fingerprint icon appears on the lock screen when you lift the phone up and after a firm press, the phone unlocks as you’d expect.

The feature sounds cool, but it isn’t perfect and I put that down to the infancy of the technology on offer rather than any failing on OnePlus’ part. The previous phone’s rear-mounted solution was undoubtedly faster but it added seams to the design and it would seem that OnePlus considered that a problem, or simply antiquated. The concealed optical sensor is definitely a touch less reliable than its predecessor, but it feels very cool to use. Right now you can customise the animation that goes along with the unlocking process and OnePlus has alluded to implementing a special shortcuts menu, accessed by continuing to hold your thumb on the screen as you unlock the 6T – a feature that’s yet to be implemented but I hope gets pushed to the phone soon. Related: Best Android Phones OnePlus 6T – Performance The ‘T’ series phones, like Google’s Pixel phones, come at an awkward time if you’re after the latest and greatest mobile processor on the market. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 chipset at the heart of the OnePlus 6T is an undeniable powerhouse, that’s featured in nearly every 2018 flagship Android phone but it’s about to be supplanted.