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watching OnePlus mature as a company has been kind of like watching a kid grow up

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in high school he was the kid who got caught picking his nose and eating it

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but like he had this sick home theater set up for his Xbox so we all pretended

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it never happened in college he blossomed into this wicked athlete who

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ended up getting cut from the team for blazing up behind the Portables and now

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he's back to show me what he can do now that he's all growed up this is the

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OnePlus 3

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cooler Masters masterc case maker 5 features their free form modular system

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allowing you to customize adjust and upgrade make it yours through the link

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down below so why couldn't OnePlus

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repeat what they did with the OnePlus One their first Flagship class phone at

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an impossibly low price of

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$299 well because it's easier to do that

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when you piggyback off of your parent company as an experimental startup

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project with no expectations of profitability you can't actually do the

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marketing customer service and both software and Hardware R&D necessary to

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compete as a global brand on margins that fin so some compromises got made on

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the OnePlus 2 including its lack of NFC

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and its pricing was still higher even for the base 16 gig model at

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$329 but are users really that sensitive

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to a few bucks what if we didn't have to make any compromises and the device

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could still be a couple hundred cheaper than its Flagship competitors well that

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seems to be the formula this time and I think it worked let's have a look at

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this puppy the OnePlus 3 is thinner than

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the Samsung Galaxy S7 at 7.35 mm though

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it's hard to say just how much of how

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great it feels in the hand is due to this and how much is due to the

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excellent weight distribution and very similar overall weight in spite of the

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significantly larger screen 5.5 in it's

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still too big for my hands but the aluminum alloy construction is very

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confidence inspiring and I can say confidently that it's the most

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comfortable 5 1/2 in that I have ever

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held thanks to the rounded rear edges reasonable size chin bar and super slim

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bezels around its 1080p display which

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okay so there's one compromise OnePlus has opted for a 1080 screen again but I

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didn't disagree with their choice last time and I don't disagree with it this

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time and there are some upgrades to it too the three gets this wonderfully high

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contrast non-reflective and miraculously

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not oversaturated AMOLED panel with white Point adjustments built right into

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the operating system system so you can tune it according to your preferences

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direct sunlight performance is not quite there with the Galaxy S7 and 1080p is

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not ideal for VR so residents of the planet Mercury who are really into

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Google cardboard need not apply but it is a great display above it next to the8

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color notification LED is an 8 megapixel 1080p video selfie camera that falls

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comfortably into good enough for front facing if you need better turn your damn

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phone around territory and then below the screen is one of my favorite things

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about the op3 Samsung's marriage to ripping off the iPhone's physical home

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button is becoming more and more out of place and the OnePlus 3 is in my mind

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the golden standard for how to handle Android buttons you can choose to use

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the capacitive hardware buttons with a very fast fingerprint sensor embedded in

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the middle one or you can choose to disable them outright and opt for

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onscreen buttons and in either configuration you can set back and

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recent apps to whichever side you prefer and oxygen OS as clean and stock Android

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like as it is includes a number of these small but actually meaningful

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customizations some like the invert color mode or the night mode I didn't

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really care for but others drawing on screen long press and double press

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gestures for launching apps and their easy memo taking in shelf when you swipe

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to the left of the home screen sucked me right right in on the left of the device

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you'll find a button I didn't really use much that lets you allow all some or no

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notifications through a one button theater mode if you will and one of one

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Plus's few missteps the volume rocker

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which is directly opposing the lock button making it hard to especially

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adjust volume up without mashing the lock over on the right side that sits

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below the Sim and only Sim no micro SD

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expansion that's the last real flaw I'm going to point out

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tray on the bottom the good stuff continues the built-in speaker is

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downward facing but it is surprisingly

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loud with only a little bit of distortion creeping in at the top two

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volume settings and this is really smart if they did it on purpose the grill is

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on the opposite side compared to the iPhone 6s and the Galaxy S7 which means

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that while you do have to do the Palm cupping thing it works way better than

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usual because it fires right into the rounded part of your palm cool between

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the grill and the headphone jack which by the way I prefer on top so I don't

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Mash capacitive buttons trying to take my phone out of my pocket in case anyone

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from OnePlus is actually watching this is a USB type c port with support for

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another solid feature up to 4 amp charging at 5 volts that allows the

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3,000 mAh battery to reach 60% in about

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half an hour and this they claim is

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without generating as much heat in the phone itself as other quick charging

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solutions for Less thermal throttling while gaming on wall power for example

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here's a thermal camera shot versus the HTC1 which uses Qualcomm quick charge

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3.0 for comparison but without the right horses you wouldn't be gaming much

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anyway and I haven't been avoiding that on purpose the three packs of Snapdragon

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820 6 gigs of lpddr4 RAM 64 gigs in the

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base configuration of ufs 2.0 storage

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which makes the lack of micr SD quite a bit more forgivable IMO dual Sims NFC

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Gorilla Glass 4 great call Quality and a

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16 megapixel front camera so on par with

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pretty much anything else out there in theory all at its 3.99 price point

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however we know cameras are a critical feature and we know that megapixels do

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not a camera make but there's more good

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news the camera on the OnePlus 3 kicks ass it launches lightning fast it

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focuses very quickly it shoots 4K video and Raw photos it features ample manual

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controls in its Stock app and its image quality is competitive enough with

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Flagship phones like the Galaxy S7 and the iPhone 6s that when Brandon took his

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test shots around to folks here at the office even if they could pick out a

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winner and it wasn't the OnePlus 3 it took a while and they had to look at it

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pretty closely and remember that these are much more expensive devices compared

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to my pre-production axon 7 a more comparably priced device there is no

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contest whatsoever I am a little salty

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that it can't snap a photo or start shooting video from the same initial

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screen instead requiring a swipe but hopefully OnePlus are you listening that

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can be fixed in software and then I wouldn't feel like I was missing out on

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really any part of the s7's camera experience by switching I don't actually

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know what's more remarkable here the way

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OnePlus has grown so much in such a short span from a weird offshoot from a

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Chinese brand to a Bonafide sustainable

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competitor in the high-end smartphone market did I mention by the way the

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deplorable invite system is gone or the

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way that through all of it they have proven to be the only high-tech company

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in the mobile space or otherwise who actually knows how to count so I'll just

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congratulate them on both and say good work on the OnePlus 3 keep it up

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you know who else did a good job dbrand

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cuz dbrand made a skin for the OnePlus 3

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already and you can head over to dbrand.com we've got a link in the video

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description and check out the wide variety of skins they have not just for

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the OnePlus 3 but also for a huge variety of other devices including

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phones game consoles game controllers and even laptop computers the best part

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about dbrand site has got to be their configurator which lets you take all the

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different skins wood grain carbon fiber solid color and preview what they look

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like as a Precision fitted skin on your

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device including combining different colors with other colors like I did in

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my iPhone SE review to a great effect

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that is one eye-catching phone so check

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it out at the link in the video description that's dbrand skins makers

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of the highquality vinyl skins that you'll see on pretty much every phone

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