If you buy this phone in long term it will trouble you as there are very less and limited updates available as past experience with other one plus models.
Also the phone doesn't have a good sound system, so if you are a music lover please don't but it. However it has many features too.
OnePlus has built smartphones that hover somewhere between mid-range handsets and true flagships. The OnePlus One was a terrific start and the OnePlus 2 was an improvement in every way, but key features like design, case materials and display quality weren’t quite on par with the likes of Apple, HTC , Samsung.
But let’s begin on the outside of the phone.The OnePlus 3’s housing is made entirely of metal and glass. Its design is reminiscent of an HTC One series phone but there are also elements from the iPhone and Galaxy phones to be found. But to be frank, the end result is less stylish.
OnePlus’s new phablet measures 7.35mm thin at its center, which is roughly the same thickness as Apple’s iPhone 6s Plus. The back slopes inward at its edges though, resulting in an ergonomic design that feels much thinner.
The phone is also 18% lighter and over 3mm more narrow than the iPhone 6s Plus more difficult to handle.
The entire face of the OnePlus 3 is covered with a single sheet of 2.5D Gorilla Glass 4 that is interrupted only for the ear speaker at the top of the phone and a large oblong home button near the bottom. That home button houses a fingerprint scanner covered by ceramic, which is even stronger than sapphire crystal, and it’s lightning-fast when reading prints. If it’s not as fast as Apple’s Touch ID fingerprint scanner, it’s darn close.
The right side of the phone is home only to a power/sleep button and a dual SIM card tray, while a volume rocker and a physical toggle button are found on the left side. The toggle switches between standard notification mode and priority notifications only.
There is nothing but smooth aluminum on the top edge of the OnePlus 3, and a standard 3.5mm audio jack, a loud speaker and a USB Type-C port are located on the bottom. A camera lens, LED flash and OnePlus logo are located on the back of the handset.
The 16-megapixel Sony sensor on the back of the OnePlus 3 features an f/2.0 aperture along with both optical image stabilization ( OIS) and electronic image stabilization ( EIS) . The combination of hardware and software stabilization doesn’t just help keep 4K videos stable, it also helps reduce motion blur in still photos.
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I found that the camera shines brightest when it comes to color reproduction and contrast, though clarity isn’t the camera’s strongest suit. Photos look incredible on the phone’s display but full zoom on a PC monitor reveals a bit more blurring and noise than you would find with a leading camera phone like the Galaxy S7 or iPhone 6s Plus.
I found the camera app itself to be a mixed bag. The interface is nice and minimalistic, but the clean design sacrifices functionality in a few key areas. For example, some camera apps make it easy to quickly snap a photo or begin recording a video as soon as the app opens. In the case of the OnePlus 3, the app opens in photo mode and then you have to swipe in from the side of the screen and find the video option in the menu before you can start recording.
Apple’s iPhones don’t have the best camera app in the world, but even the iOS camera app lets you switch to video mode with one quick tap or swipe.
Where quality is concerned, there is a clear difference between the OnePlus 3’s screen and top-of-the-line AMOLED displays like the ones used by Samsung. Colors aren’t quite as vivid, blacks aren’t as deep and nothing compares to Samsung’s class-leading contrast. That’s not to say the OnePlus 3’s screen is a bad one, it’s just a rare area where the new OnePlus phone isn’t quite on par with what you’ll find on other flagship phones.
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Moving from the outside of the OnePlus 3 to the inside, Android fans are going to be quite impressed with how much tech OnePlus managed to pack into such an affordable smartphone.
Beginning with the phone’s processor, OnePlus chose a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor to power the OnePlus 3. The popular 64-bit chip features two 2.2GHz cores paired with two 1.6GHz cores and an Adreno 530 GPU. This dynamic chipset is ideal for mobile phones because it offers low power consumption when in standby and when operating simple tasks, and tremendous oomph when the phone needs it.
About that oomph…
I’m not a very big fan of benchmark tests since they don’t necessarily paint a picture of how a phone functions in the real world. They are useful in some comparisons though, and they do help users see how a phone performs when it’s pushed to its limits.
So how did the OnePlus 3 fare? In my tests, the phone managed an average score of 142, 215.
That incredible score has only been topped by one other phone I’ve tested, the HTC 10. It’s more than good enough to beat every other flagship smartphone out there though, including Samsung’s Galaxy S7 line and Apple’s latest iPhones.
Processors don’t work alone, of course, and the rest of the OnePlus 3’s internals are equally impressive. The phone has a whopping 6GB of LPDDR4 RAM along with 64GB of UFS 2.0 storage. There are no other storage options and you also won’t find a memory card slot.
While 64GB will be enough for many users, I definitely expect some feathers to be ruffled by the phone’s lack of storage options. There are two different OnePlus 3 models, but connectivity is the only way they differ.
In case you’re curious, cellular connectivity for the US model is as follows:
GSM: 850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz
WCDMA: Bands 1/2/4/5/8
FDD-LTE: Bands 1/2/4/5/7/8/12/17
CDMA EVDO: BC0
And a separate model for Europe and Asia features the following:
WCDMA: Bands 1/2/5/8
FDD-LTE: Bands 1/3/5/7/8/20
TDD-LTE: Bands 38/40/41
Both models support 4G LTE ( Cat. 6) , Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 4.2 and NFC.
Also the phone can bend if put too much pressure and also the back panel is too prone to scratches. so overall I will suggest you to buy other better phones available in market than buying one plus 3.
