OnePlus 3: Review
This is the third phone from OnePlus, it’s the OnePlus 3 so
a new phone from a not so new anymore company. OnePlus has made their name from
their previous two phones the OnePlus 1
and OnePlus 2 and both were really well
known for their impressive specifications and for a low price ,big specs small price ,that's
what one plus does best and they are absolutely back at it again with this
OnePlus 3 so just get them out the way this OnePlus 3 is loaded with a
Snapdragon 820 chip, Adreno 530 GPU ,64 gigs of not expandable flash storage
and six gigs of RAM “Six GigaBytes of RAM”. That’s right!
I think the design is
one of this phones Best asset this year
it's pretty clean all around it's a full unibody metal jack, clean lines and curved corners to feel good in
the hand and quality button placement so they're all easily recognizable and
easy to press and actually it keeps the alert slider from last year .
It's a simple low-risk design ,OnePlus didn't take any huge
gambles with the outside this phone because that’s not really what they do if
you look at his phone you don't really see anything design-wise that hasn't
showed up in another smartphone. They didn't take away the headphone jack or anything ,they
didn't go with dual cameras ,a detachable modules are magnets or pins, it's
really much closer to I guess a traditional look, it even looks a little bit
like the iPhone 6s on the bottom . The worst thing about this design is
probably the camera bump on the back which is definitely brand new because in
the previous designs there was no camera bump.
We get the OnePlus 3 , that is way thinner and has a camera
bump and has a smaller battery. OnePlus 3 has a 1080p display, and your choice
between capacitive buttons or on-screen
buttons thanks oxygen OS I happen to prefer the capacitive ones this time
around and the display is really good for a 1080p display is not going to match
the Quad HD panels from Samsung and sharpness or brightness but those are the
best panels on the market and this old guy puts up respectable fight , its 5.5 inch OLED display with some really thin
side bezels less than a millimeter on each side I like that! and it gets pretty
bright so it's viewable outdoors and Battery efficient by definition. Things
are super smooth battery gets a nice benefit and most people don't know the
difference if they never hold it up next to the Galaxy S 7, the display looks
really good .
The fingerprint reader is also much improved it seems to be
now the second fastest fingerprint
reader I've ever used in a smartphone
right up next to Touch ID on the new iPhone. I would really only sometimes have
it forget my finger once in a while but that was rare so I love being able to
secure my phone so quickly but still unlock my phone super fast ,fingerprint
reader was a nice touch to see it improved and actually using this phone is the
best part of it in my opinion again it's not really that risky at all. With
these top-notch specs, a 1080p display and near stock Android and fast flash storage
and it just absurd 6 gigabytes of RAM so it will be the smoothest, quickest
Android handset I've ever used alongside Nexus 6p right now I'm just hoping it
lasts ,some phones start off smooth but then they find a way to lack even with
high end specs because of their software.
Battery life is also pretty good although I think I kind of
expected a little better it was inconsistent and then it leveled out, I would
give it a 8/10 , good rating with a 3000 milliamp hour battery and a 1080p
display so I was consistently getting near 4 hours of screen on time with my
usage I gotta wonder though what they could have done if they didn't make the
phone so thin , 7.3 millimeters in a full metal jacket it's Awesome and
everything but I gotta wonder how it would have lasted if they followed their
own traditions from last year and made
it a little thicker with like a 3600 milliamp hour battery.
One of the best things is fast charging which they called “dash
charging”. You get a 4 amp charger in
the box which sounds crazy because most smartphones are one or two ampere chargers
and its charge so fast it actually is awesomely fast. It gets 60% charge in
half an hour . There is no wireless charging since it's a metal back.
The camera on the one plus 3 has a 16 megapixel Sony sensor F 2.0 aperture as Optical image stabilization
and face detaction autofocus for the quickness the camera app itself is
decently fast both to open up and take a picture and by default HDR mode is enabled so it
doesn't take that much extra time to actually take and process that shot so that's
nice ,focus is nice and quick but of course you can turn off HDR to speed up a
little more if you know you're not going to need that but the photos it takes
are, I would say fairly well-balanced they're sort of tiptoeing a line between
being vibrant but not to over saturated and crisp without being super over
sharpened .
One Plus 3 held up really
good and makes it worth to buy a such smart phone at low price and high end
specs. In the end , thanks for reading.
