A great act is tough to
follow and sometimes delivering two great devices in a row requires that you
take a completely different approach with the successor. Now on its third
"flagship killer" (with the OnePlus X taking a different path), OnePlus
has taken on the tough task to mature from a business standpoint, while still
retaining that ambitious "never settle" attitude that brought it
where it is today.
Only time will tell if
that works out, but it's beyond the point of this review anyway. What we are
determined to find out here is whether the OnePlus 3 is worth your hard-earned
cash.
On paper, the formula is
right - match the specs of rivals and undercut their pricing. However, it is
the approach towards the latter that has really changed this time around.
Instead of going for an absurdly low price and being unable to sort out
production, mandating stuff like the dreaded invite system, OnePlus has gone to
reasonable levels this time and dropped the sales tricks.
Overall, the OnePlus 3
is best described as driven by pragmatic choices. There is nothing really
unusual, bold or even remotely eccentric from a design standpoint - just a
really elegant and thin metal unibody with very few things that may raise
questions. The same goes for the specs. They have always been more than robust
in OnePlus devices, but typically hand-picked and arranged for optimal
performance, rather than just there for the sake of pure numbers.
Key features
- 5.5" Optic AMOLED display of 1080p resolution;
401ppi; Corning Gorilla Glass 4; Metal back
- 64GB model with Snapdragon 820 chipset (2x Kryo at
2.15GHz and 2x Kryo at 1.6GHz cores); Adreno 530 GPU
- 16MP f/2.0 main camera with OIS and phase detection
autofocus, single LED flash; 2160p video at 30fps;
- 8MP f/2.0 front-facing camera, 1080p video recording at
30fps
- 4G LTE; Dual-SIM support; Wi-Fi a/b/g/n/ac; Bluetooth
4.2; NFC; GPS, GLONASS and BDS; Fingerprint reader; USB Type-C connector
- Oxygen OS, based on Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow
- 3,000mAh non-removable battery
- Fast battery charging: 60% in 30 min (Dash Charge)
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