Honest Review killer flagships OnePlus 3
Devices / / December 19, 2019
What kind of an experimental format
A typical review of a gadget - it's such a long and often boring for most readers the sheet of words not always clear figures and graphs, and images, tells in detail about all components device. It turns out too many letters, and key advantages and disadvantages smeared on the text and not deposited in the head.
We decided to discard all unnecessary, leaving the most important. Extremely useful information, which can be quickly read and learn about all the gadget. Only the pros, cons and controversial features of devices with much lower water content.
What he's the killer, if there is 30 thousand rubles?
Compare OnePlus 3 with budget Xiaomi or Meizu for a little over 100 dollars - is the same as that put on a series of "Lada" and BMW.
OnePlus 3 - a smartphone that was created in opposition to dorogushchim topam from well-known brands and is equipped with the most powerful and the best filling materials.
The performance and execution of the murderer flagships udelyvaet
Samsung Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge, LG G5 and others, but it is worth while significantly cheaper.pros
Performance with a margin
Someone says that modern Android-smartphone does not have enough RAM to 2GB. Some little 3GB. New OnePlus is equipped with a gigabyte of RAM honest SIX LPDDR4. Such a large amount of memory is certainly redundant, but none of even the most demanding enthusiast Android-smartphone will blame a lack of RAM. Again, you can shake the digit before the persons Samsung owners, feeling his own superiority. Generally, the competition gigahertz and gigabytes widely practiced among power-users, but OnePlus 3 was created especially for them.
Combined with powerful graphics Snapdragon 820 and Adreno smartphone 530 becomes a monster, which is easily ANY pulls the most demanding game on ultra-chart, keeping in mind three more heavy applications, and a couple of dozen ordinary.
Flexible Android without tinsel
OnePlus 3 is running on the basis of actual OxygenOS Android 6 Marshmallow. This assembly, on the one hand, similar to the reference, pure Android from Google, but on the other - hides a great potential for customization. Suffice it to say that the user can add their own actions, even in the system buttons and change the position of the "Back" button, placing it either to the left or right depending on the habit.
Purpose three-position mode switch physical notification is not yet set up, but the next update will add a certain function, or it will make some of the third-party developers.
The absence of heavy graphic dodger makes the system stable and brisk. There is no extra software, which is often duplicated gugloprilozheniya creates additional confusion and slows down the whole system. OxygenOS almost perfect ratio of simplicity and functionality.
balanced design
If desired, one can get to any body, but in the case OnePlus 3 make it hard. Aluminum, major, with impeccable fit parts.
Moderately heavy, not too thin, while rigorous, yet streamlined thanks to the rounded corners and 2.5D-glass.
Without stupid rear panel of glass that collects tons of fat with your fingers. OnePlus 3 it is very easy to use and looks great in the rough paws of male and female in the beautiful pens.
Evidence-based night mode
Safe Night mode health - is not only a reduced brightness and a dark theme. The blue light from the screen is a wake-up call for our brain. For this reason, we can not sleep when bristling smartphone before bedtime. Night mode disables OnePlus 3 blue and does not cause untimely hormonal spikes.
Fast fingerprint scanner, which is properly positioned
The speed of response fingerprint scanner 3 OnePlus is not inferior to that of the Galaxy S7, Nexus 6P and the iPhone 6s, but the most important thing - is its location.
We do not know what guided the engineers who invented to put the sensor back. Perhaps these people 100% of the time keep the phone in your hand. An ordinary person is very often there are situations when you need to do something in the smartphone lying on the table. Front scanner does not interfere in this case, but you have to first take at the rear location the device in hand, then grope sensor to unlock the device and return to the surface table. It is extremely uncomfortable and angry. Do not buy a smartphone in which the scanner is back: you will regret his choice.
The scanner not only unlocks, but also acts as a button "Home". In contrast to the iPhone, touch the button here, not mechanical.
Splendid camera from Sony
Modern smart phone is unthinkable without a good camera, and OnePlus 3 offers just two steep sensor: the main 16 megapixel Sony IMX298 with PDAF-autofocus, HDR and dynamic noise filter, and the wheel 8 megapixel IMX179 also from Sony.
Naturally, these cameras are very well removed, what you can see by looking at the picture below. It is made without any presets, literally on the move.
OnePlus records video up to 4K at 30 fps. Standard 1080p at 60 frames written, and 720p for slow mode available for 120 frames.
Lovers and lovers sebyashek really like avtoselfi mode in which the smartphone is automatically focuses on the face, and then starts the countdown and he takes a picture. Extremely handy feature.
there NFC
Known the delights of contactless payment using NFC rarely take the cash in hand and bank card. Despite the aluminum housing, 3 engineers OnePlus miraculously shoved into NFC smartphone. And everything works flawlessly.
Normal procedure for the purchase of a smartphone without invites
Previous models OnePlus could not be obtained without an invite. Artificial complication of purchase through invitations system - it works, but pretty lousy way to create additional noise and an aura of "elitism" around their products. Fortunately, OnePlus gave up nonsense, and now sell smartphones without unnecessary complications. I paid - waited - received.
Minuses
No choice
Only one configuration. No options. I do not want to overpay for a frank extra 6 GB of RAM? Sorry. I would like to save at the expense of the internal memory size of 64 GB because you are unlikely to take? Again, I'm sorry.
We are sure if OnePlus has released a younger version of the smartphone with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of storage, sales would popyorli even stronger.
No moisture protection
Here OnePlus 3 frankly merged before Samsung, whose latest flagships have protection class IP68 against water and dust. We hope that the waterproof in the next generation of great smartphones.
5.5 inches - not for everyone
I was holding the iPhone 6 Plus? This shovel like not all. It seems to us that the diagonal of 5 inches is optimal for a modern smartphone.
Releasing PHABLET, OnePlus deliberately narrows the range of potential buyers.
Sad battery that is leaking at night
Battery at 3000 mAh with such greedy stuffing energy - this little, very little. The situation is aggravated by the fact that, leaving a smartphone for the night when the charge level, say 80%, you can wake up in the morning and found only 65-70% of the charge. No nightly downloads of a large amount of information at the same time guarantee was not. Updates also do not put. We hope this update will solve the problem soon, but for now OnePlus 3 well, not autonomous. Keep out of the hands of such power and not to use it at full strength, fearing to remain without any communication - it is a shame.
Two SIM-cards, but there is no microSD - Bray-et-U!
Any Chinese is now offering a hybrid slot into which you can put any two SIM-cards, or replace one SIM on a microSD card. Hey, OnePlus, you really have not heard of such a user-friendly solution or deliberately ceded Samsung, the smartphone has a microSD?
Difficulties with the service
OnePlus 3 sold only online. there are no services, especially in Russia, where the smartphone is not yet officially emerged. If something happens, I will have to send mail to another country. Long and expensive.
contentious issues
Display Optic AMOLED and extra marketing
Advantages and disadvantages of AMOLED-display are well known. 3 OnePlus screen is very bright, juicy, saturated. A true black color due to the independent feeding of each pixel, Full HD 1920 × 1080, a density in the region of 400 per inch ppi, protection Corning Gorilla Glass 4. Everything's cool.
You have to pay the realism and accuracy of color reproduction. Colors are crazy, they seem unreal. Sometimes they are openly poisonous. Accustomed to the AMOLED does not notice, but peresevshie on OnePlus with IPS-screens will be surprised.
Another unpleasant moment comes to marketing terms. Do you know what Optic AMOLED and he is better than conventional AMOLED? Nothing. This is the same display from Samsung, which have tried to tighten in order to improve the reliability of the color. It turned out not very good, but unfamiliar with the subject person who lazy to google, so marketing can be misleading.
USB-C DASH Charge - exclusive and expensive
Proprietary technology OnePlus 3 fast charging will charge the smart phone 60% in 30 minutes. However, it works only with the native adapter and only native wire.
, Will have to settle for the standard if there are not at hand for USB-C filling the battery characteristics.
By the way, when buying the phone with USB-C, need to be prepared to ensure that all of your friends and colleagues, in a difficult moment delivshiesya its wire and charger no longer be able to help you. USB-C - is still a rarity, and quite expensive.
Replacement wire USB-C enabled DASH Charge of OnePlus will cost 15 euros. Male - 20 euros. Expensive!
Characteristics OnePlus 3
Dimensions: | 152.7 × 74.7 × 7.35 mm |
Weight: | 158 g |
Case material: | anodized aluminum |
Colors: | Graphite / Soft Gold |
Operating system: | OxygenOS based Android Marshmallow |
CPU: | Qualcomm Snapdragon 820, Quad Core, Kryo: 2x 2,2 GHz, 2x 1,6 GHz |
Graphic arts: | Adreno 530 |
RAM: | 6 GB LPDDR4 |
Inner memory: | 64GB UFS 2.0 |
The fingerprint scanner: | there is |
ports: | USB-C, double nanoSIM, 3,5 mm |
Battery: | nonremovable 3000 mAh, DASH Charge (5, 4 A) |
Communication (European model): | GSM: 850, 900, 1800, 1900 WCDMA: 1/2/5/8 FDD-LTE: 1/3/5/7/8/20 TDD-LTE: 38/40 Wi-Fi 802.11 a / b / g / n / ac bluetooth 4.2 NFC GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou |
Screen: | Optic AMOLED 1080p Full HD (1920 × 1080), 401 ppi, Corning Gorilla Glass 4 |
Main camera: | Sony IMX298 16 megapixel, f / 2.0, HDR, PDAF, 4K @ 30fps, 720p @ 120fps |
Front-camera: | Sony IMX179 8 megapixel, f / 2.0, 1080p @ 30fps, avtoselfi |
in total
No matter how we tried to scold OnePlus 3, he still chic. Samsung Galaxy S7 costs 50 000 rubles. OnePlus 3 - 30 000 rubles. You see the difference? This is still a killer champions, the best in the business.
Layfhaker thanks online store GearBest for providing the test device.