Nov 24, 2016 08:07 PM
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Yes, indeed! with the snap dragon 820 SOC chipset 16 MP rear camera and 8 MP front facing shooter with 6GB of RAM and 64 GB of internal storage and also having dual sim feature with Volte support with sleek and slim design though it has a 3000 mAh battery that can stay a day long and the unique feature is its DASH charging that is it can get fully charged from 20 to 100% in just an hour and 20 to 80% in just 40 mins. Isn't it a great?
On paper, this phone is an absolute beast, and appears to have what it takes to challenge the set conventions of flagship pricing.
The OnePlus 3 implements one big change that makes all the difference in lending an air of quality to the phone; the plastic rear panel with sandstone finishing is gone; replaced by cold, hard aluminium. Furthermore, it's a unibody with a dull metallic finish, and reminds us a little bit of the HTC One M9 thanks to its antenna lines and bulging rear camera. It's beautiful, well-built, and finally brings OnePlus into the big leagues of design.
The front gains a bit of style too, thanks to the use of Corning Gorilla Glass 4 which curves at the edges of the screen and offers a fair bit of protection against accidental scratches and damage. Also at the front is a capacitive home key with a fingerprint sensor built in, along with two more capacitive buttons on either side. These are usually invisible but a small backlight is activated when the buttons are touched. The software allows you to deactivate them and switch to on-screen keys if you prefer. Our review unit came with a preinstalled screen protector film, but it doesn't completely cover the front and got scratched rather easily. We would have preferred to receive the phone without it.he fingerprint sensor is a huge improvement over the one on the OnePlus 2. It's slightly recessed, and unlocks the phone even from standby mode without first needing to wake the device. This makes it a little bit quicker than many other devices, including the Mi 5 which first needs to be woken by pressing down on the physical home button. It's also incredibly accurate and registers with even a gentle tap of the sensor. Up to five fingerprints can be stored, and the sensor can also be used to authorise purchases and control access to certain apps. OnePlus claims that the sensor will continuously improve and learn your habits and ways as you keep using it, thereby making it more accurate over time.
The sides of the phone are well laid out, with OnePlus' signature alerts slider and volume buttons on the left, power button and dual-SIM tray on the right, and speaker, USB type-C port and 3.5mm socket at the bottom. Although the phone isn't particularly slim at 7.35mm, it's a lot slimmer at the sides because of the curved back, and feels great to hold. However, it's worth noting that the primary camera bulges out a fair bit, and could potentially be damaged if you use the phone without a protective case. There are five optional plastic cases that you can buy along with the phone with different looks and finishes: Karbon, Bamboo, Apricot, Rosewood and Sandstone(the last one is in case you're feeling nostalgic). The texturing on the cases is beautiful, and the phone feels as good with a case as without.
The OnePlus 3 sticks to the same display size and resolution as its predecessors, with a 5.5-inch 1080x1920-pixel screen that has a pixel density of 401ppi. the OnePlus 3 have this SoC clocked at 2.2GHz for two cores and 1.6GHz for the other two cores, but it also sports a colossal 6GB of LPDDR4 RAM and 64GB of internal storage(non-expandable).
Apart from this, there's also dual-SIM 4G connectivity with support for both FDD-Band 3 and TDD-Band 40, Wi-Fi a/b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 4.2, and NFC. The phone has a 3000mAh non-removable battery, and is the company's first device to feature some kind of fast charging technology. It comes bundled with a 20W Dash Charger, which charges the phone up to 60 percent in 30 minutes. About an hour's charging should fully top up your phone even from near zero.
the OnePlus 3 have this SoC clocked at 2.2GHz for two cores and 1.6GHz for the other two cores, but it also sports a colossal 6GB of LPDDR4 RAM and 64GB of internal storage(non-expandable).
Apart from this, there's also dual-SIM 4G connectivity with support for both FDD-Band 3 and TDD-Band 40, Wi-Fi a/b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 4.2, and NFC. The phone has a 3000mAh non-removable battery, and is the company's first device to feature some kind of fast charging technology. It comes bundled with a 20W Dash Charger, which charges the phone up to 60 percent in 30 minutes. About an hour's charging should fully top up your phone even from near zero.
Camera
The primary camera of the OnePlus 3 is a 16-megapixel Sony IMX 298 sensor, while the front camera has an 8-megapixel sensor with 1.4-micron pixels. The rear camera can shoot video at up to 4K and can also shoot slow motion video at 120fps, while the front camera can shoot video at up to 1080p at 30fps. Additionally, the rear camera features optical image stabilisation, phase detection autofocus and RAW image format support.
The camera app is Google's stock app which you'll find on Nexus devices. It's designed around simplicity and maximising screen space for the viewfinder. Because of this, there's only a single shutter button for capturing stills, and recording video is a two-step process. Camera modes such as time lapse, slow motion, video, manual and panorama can be reached through a small toggle in the top-left corner that's easy to miss.
Videos are excellent and detailed even at full-HD resolution, and you always have the option to go up to 4K if you want them sharper. Slow motion and time lapse modes produce interesting results, but more control over both of these, and possibly the inclusion of 240fps shooting, would have been great additions to the camera. The front camera takes surprisingly sharp pictures as well, producing much better results than what we're used to seeing from typical smartphones. On the whole, the camera is more than adequate for ordinary smartphone shooting.
Performance
As has been the case with the two Snapdragon 820-powered smartphones that we've reviewed so far this year, the OnePlus 3 is an absolute powerhouse. From playing games to loading Web pages; from starting up apps to taking pictures; everything just works well. It's helped along no doubt by the generous 6GB of RAM. There's practically no delay or loading times, and we found it hard to go back to a lower performing smartphone after our time with the OnePlus 3. Furthermore, heat issues and performance throttling are practically non-existent, with the phone running smoothly even under heavy use.
When it came to benchmark scores, the OnePlus 3 broke a few of our records, thereby underlining its superior performance. AnTuTu produced the highest score we've seen yet from an Android device, with 142, 674, while the Quadrant score was a respectable 44, 490. GFXBench and 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited produced scores of 30, 276(again, the highest we've seen) and 59fps. Essentially, this is hands-down the most powerful Android smartphone we've used so far.
ception on cellular networks was excellent for us, with the phone practically always managing to hold onto strong 4G and Wi-Fi connectivity. Call quality is decent as well, and voice transmission is helped along by an excellent dual-microphone setup on the device. Battery life is fantastic, with the phone running for 16 hours, 45 minutes in our video loop test. This phone will easily last through a full day even with constant 4G connectivity and heavy use thanks to the combination of an efficient yet powerful SoC, a full-HD Amoled screen which requires less power to run, an efficient operating system, and Android Marshmallow's excellent Doze Mode.
We also tried the phone out with the Loop VR headset. Although we had some initial problems with setup and gyroscope calibration, we eventually figured it out and had a good time playing VR games and watching 360-degree videos on the headset. The headset itself is comfortable, but is purely optical and has no controls on it, relying entirely on your phone for control.
Verdict
After three previous attempts, OnePlus has finally managed to get everything right with the OnePlus 3. This is a phone which excels in every department, and OnePlus has even fixed the issues we had with reliability and build quality on some of its previous devices. The inclusion of important features such as NFC, an accurate fingerprint sensor, an excellent Amoled screen and fast charging also finally means that this is a phone that checks all of the boxes.
However, the OnePlus 3 isn't completely perfect. Although 64GB of internal storage will in all likelihood be enough, a lot of people will have an issue with the fact that storage cannot be expanded. The single speaker is a bit weak, and there were some file format recognition issues which prevented us from running some video and audio files on the phone. Pictures taken in low-light weren't quite as good as we'd hoped. But all of these issues are minor, and take very little away from the fact that the OnePlus 3 is a fantastic smartphone. With these capabilities, and at Rs. 27, 999, it finally has what it takes to be a true'flagship killer'.
