watching OnePlus mature as a company has been kind of like watching a kid grow up
in high school he was the kid who got caught picking his nose and eating it
but like he had this sick home theater set up for his Xbox so we all pretended
it never happened in college he blossomed into this wicked athlete who
ended up getting cut from the team for blazing up behind the Portables and now
he's back to show me what he can do now that he's all growed up this is the
OnePlus 3
cooler Masters masterc case maker 5 features their free form modular system
allowing you to customize adjust and upgrade make it yours through the link
down below so why couldn't OnePlus
repeat what they did with the OnePlus One their first Flagship class phone at
an impossibly low price of
$299 well because it's easier to do that
when you piggyback off of your parent company as an experimental startup
project with no expectations of profitability you can't actually do the
marketing customer service and both software and Hardware R&D necessary to
compete as a global brand on margins that fin so some compromises got made on
the OnePlus 2 including its lack of NFC
and its pricing was still higher even for the base 16 gig model at
$329 but are users really that sensitive
to a few bucks what if we didn't have to make any compromises and the device
could still be a couple hundred cheaper than its Flagship competitors well that
seems to be the formula this time and I think it worked let's have a look at
this puppy the OnePlus 3 is thinner than
the Samsung Galaxy S7 at 7.35 mm though
it's hard to say just how much of how
great it feels in the hand is due to this and how much is due to the
excellent weight distribution and very similar overall weight in spite of the
significantly larger screen 5.5 in it's
still too big for my hands but the aluminum alloy construction is very
confidence inspiring and I can say confidently that it's the most
comfortable 5 1/2 in that I have ever
held thanks to the rounded rear edges reasonable size chin bar and super slim
bezels around its 1080p display which
okay so there's one compromise OnePlus has opted for a 1080 screen again but I
didn't disagree with their choice last time and I don't disagree with it this
time and there are some upgrades to it too the three gets this wonderfully high
contrast non-reflective and miraculously
not oversaturated AMOLED panel with white Point adjustments built right into
the operating system system so you can tune it according to your preferences
direct sunlight performance is not quite there with the Galaxy S7 and 1080p is
not ideal for VR so residents of the planet Mercury who are really into
Google cardboard need not apply but it is a great display above it next to the8
color notification LED is an 8 megapixel 1080p video selfie camera that falls
comfortably into good enough for front facing if you need better turn your damn
phone around territory and then below the screen is one of my favorite things
about the op3 Samsung's marriage to ripping off the iPhone's physical home
button is becoming more and more out of place and the OnePlus 3 is in my mind
the golden standard for how to handle Android buttons you can choose to use
the capacitive hardware buttons with a very fast fingerprint sensor embedded in
the middle one or you can choose to disable them outright and opt for
onscreen buttons and in either configuration you can set back and
recent apps to whichever side you prefer and oxygen OS as clean and stock Android
like as it is includes a number of these small but actually meaningful
customizations some like the invert color mode or the night mode I didn't
really care for but others drawing on screen long press and double press
gestures for launching apps and their easy memo taking in shelf when you swipe
to the left of the home screen sucked me right right in on the left of the device
you'll find a button I didn't really use much that lets you allow all some or no
notifications through a one button theater mode if you will and one of one
Plus's few missteps the volume rocker
which is directly opposing the lock button making it hard to especially
adjust volume up without mashing the lock over on the right side that sits
below the Sim and only Sim no micro SD
expansion that's the last real flaw I'm going to point out
tray on the bottom the good stuff continues the built-in speaker is
downward facing but it is surprisingly
loud with only a little bit of distortion creeping in at the top two
volume settings and this is really smart if they did it on purpose the grill is
on the opposite side compared to the iPhone 6s and the Galaxy S7 which means
that while you do have to do the Palm cupping thing it works way better than
usual because it fires right into the rounded part of your palm cool between
the grill and the headphone jack which by the way I prefer on top so I don't
Mash capacitive buttons trying to take my phone out of my pocket in case anyone
from OnePlus is actually watching this is a USB type c port with support for
another solid feature up to 4 amp charging at 5 volts that allows the
3,000 mAh battery to reach 60% in about
half an hour and this they claim is
without generating as much heat in the phone itself as other quick charging
solutions for Less thermal throttling while gaming on wall power for example
here's a thermal camera shot versus the HTC1 which uses Qualcomm quick charge
3.0 for comparison but without the right horses you wouldn't be gaming much
anyway and I haven't been avoiding that on purpose the three packs of Snapdragon
820 6 gigs of lpddr4 RAM 64 gigs in the
base configuration of ufs 2.0 storage
which makes the lack of micr SD quite a bit more forgivable IMO dual Sims NFC
Gorilla Glass 4 great call Quality and a
16 megapixel front camera so on par with
pretty much anything else out there in theory all at its 3.99 price point
however we know cameras are a critical feature and we know that megapixels do
not a camera make but there's more good
news the camera on the OnePlus 3 kicks ass it launches lightning fast it
focuses very quickly it shoots 4K video and Raw photos it features ample manual
controls in its Stock app and its image quality is competitive enough with
Flagship phones like the Galaxy S7 and the iPhone 6s that when Brandon took his
test shots around to folks here at the office even if they could pick out a
winner and it wasn't the OnePlus 3 it took a while and they had to look at it
pretty closely and remember that these are much more expensive devices compared
to my pre-production axon 7 a more comparably priced device there is no
contest whatsoever I am a little salty
that it can't snap a photo or start shooting video from the same initial
screen instead requiring a swipe but hopefully OnePlus are you listening that
can be fixed in software and then I wouldn't feel like I was missing out on
really any part of the s7's camera experience by switching I don't actually
know what's more remarkable here the way
OnePlus has grown so much in such a short span from a weird offshoot from a
Chinese brand to a Bonafide sustainable
competitor in the high-end smartphone market did I mention by the way the
deplorable invite system is gone or the
way that through all of it they have proven to be the only high-tech company
in the mobile space or otherwise who actually knows how to count so I'll just
congratulate them on both and say good work on the OnePlus 3 keep it up
you know who else did a good job dbrand
cuz dbrand made a skin for the OnePlus 3
already and you can head over to dbrand.com we've got a link in the video
description and check out the wide variety of skins they have not just for
the OnePlus 3 but also for a huge variety of other devices including
phones game consoles game controllers and even laptop computers the best part
about dbrand site has got to be their configurator which lets you take all the
different skins wood grain carbon fiber solid color and preview what they look
like as a Precision fitted skin on your
device including combining different colors with other colors like I did in
my iPhone SE review to a great effect
that is one eye-catching phone so check
it out at the link in the video description that's dbrand skins makers
of the highquality vinyl skins that you'll see on pretty much every phone
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