ONEPLUS 3 REVIEW
No gimmicks, just performance!
It's finally here! The 2016 OnePlus flagship. This is the review of the OnePlus 3.
Design:
The phone hasn't taken any major changes in its build. No modules or moving parts. None of the modern fuzz that we hear about. Just a clean cut, solid piece of metal with unbelievable potential trapped in it😀. Its gotten thinner at 7.35mm, at the cost of a smaller battery; not something that power users will appreciate😒.
Display:
The OnePlus 3 has a 5.5" FullHD AMOLED display at a pixel density of about 401ppi. It's really good for a 1080p display. Crisp and bright. Its not crazy sharp like a samsung quad-HD display, but you can't argue with the amazingly budget friendly price😄.
Performance:
As I've mentioned earlier, phone runs on a Snapdrgon 820 processor and 6GB of DDR4 RAM with Adreno 530 GPU and 64GB non-expandable flash storage( a faster type of storage).
As you would've probably guessed, it is the most fluid android experience ever! Equal to that of nexus 6p or even superior😀👌. Trust me, it's platinum!
It's crazy fast in opening apps and multitasking( obviously, with that mammoth size RAM😉). The fingerprint scanner has to be the fastest one I've seen in my life😲😎👍.(I'm sure it surpasses the huawei mate 8 which was known for fast fingerprint recognition! ). The mute/alert slider which was on the oneplus 2 and OnePlus X is still there, so that's great.👍
Software:
The phone runs on its own custom skin called OxygenOS, which is very minimalistic. Much like stock android with a few neat tricks of Cyanogenmod. Its sort of a hybrid, the best of 2 worlds, I'd say. Any stock android fan will find himself right at home with this UI. Its clean and functional. Everything works as it should. Good stuff👍.
Camera:
The camera on the phone is a 16mp sony sensor on the rear and an 8mp standard sensor on the front. As you can see from the slideshow above, the camera is exceptional for the price and pictures that it takes are amazingly well detailed and properly exposed, almost every time.
I would definitely give a 4.8/5.0 rating for it. Oneplus team have done an awesome job in the optics department . Definitely an increment to last year's model.
Battery life:
The smaller 3000mAh battery unit on this year's oneplus power house will probably disappoint some users ( myself included😞). I would've loved it if the phone would've been slighly thicker with a beefier battery, like last year. But it just has a 1080p display and not a high resolution QHD panel, so battery life is pretty okay. You will get about 4.5 hrs of continuous usage out of it, which is actually decent for such hardcore specs.
Price: its the same as it was for last year's oneplus 2, during it's release. This beast costs an amazing 27,999 INR and is a head on competition to the similarly specced xiaomi mi5. But the oneplus 3 definitely has the edge in RAM space and faster built-in storage.😊👍.
Anybody in for an awesome smartphone upgrade under 30K?? Look no further, because you've bumped into the budget-badass of 2016😎✌.
Design:
The phone hasn't taken any major changes in its build. No modules or moving parts. None of the modern fuzz that we hear about. Just a clean cut, solid piece of metal with unbelievable potential trapped in it😀. Its gotten thinner at 7.35mm, at the cost of a smaller battery; not something that power users will appreciate😒.
Display:
The OnePlus 3 has a 5.5" FullHD AMOLED display at a pixel density of about 401ppi. It's really good for a 1080p display. Crisp and bright. Its not crazy sharp like a samsung quad-HD display, but you can't argue with the amazingly budget friendly price😄.
Performance:
As I've mentioned earlier, phone runs on a Snapdrgon 820 processor and 6GB of DDR4 RAM with Adreno 530 GPU and 64GB non-expandable flash storage( a faster type of storage).
As you would've probably guessed, it is the most fluid android experience ever! Equal to that of nexus 6p or even superior😀👌. Trust me, it's platinum!
It's crazy fast in opening apps and multitasking( obviously, with that mammoth size RAM😉). The fingerprint scanner has to be the fastest one I've seen in my life😲😎👍.(I'm sure it surpasses the huawei mate 8 which was known for fast fingerprint recognition! ). The mute/alert slider which was on the oneplus 2 and OnePlus X is still there, so that's great.👍
Software:
The phone runs on its own custom skin called OxygenOS, which is very minimalistic. Much like stock android with a few neat tricks of Cyanogenmod. Its sort of a hybrid, the best of 2 worlds, I'd say. Any stock android fan will find himself right at home with this UI. Its clean and functional. Everything works as it should. Good stuff👍.
Camera:
The camera on the phone is a 16mp sony sensor on the rear and an 8mp standard sensor on the front. As you can see from the slideshow above, the camera is exceptional for the price and pictures that it takes are amazingly well detailed and properly exposed, almost every time.
I would definitely give a 4.8/5.0 rating for it. Oneplus team have done an awesome job in the optics department . Definitely an increment to last year's model.
Battery life:
The smaller 3000mAh battery unit on this year's oneplus power house will probably disappoint some users ( myself included😞). I would've loved it if the phone would've been slighly thicker with a beefier battery, like last year. But it just has a 1080p display and not a high resolution QHD panel, so battery life is pretty okay. You will get about 4.5 hrs of continuous usage out of it, which is actually decent for such hardcore specs.
Price: its the same as it was for last year's oneplus 2, during it's release. This beast costs an amazing 27,999 INR and is a head on competition to the similarly specced xiaomi mi5. But the oneplus 3 definitely has the edge in RAM space and faster built-in storage.😊👍.
Anybody in for an awesome smartphone upgrade under 30K?? Look no further, because you've bumped into the budget-badass of 2016😎✌.