OnePlus 3 review by OZ

Hello everyone!

I decided to make a review on the new OnePlus 3.
I used to have the OnePlus 1, used it activly for over 2 years as my main phone, recently the touch screen stoped working on some parts of the screen s i decided to get another OnePlus. I honestly didnt care if i'l end up buying a 1,2 or 3. It's just that I had a great expirience with the 1, so I decided to get another OnePlus phone.

Let's start with the review!
First some specifications, software and pics of the phone, then some comment at the end.

Design

It is made out of Anodized aluminum and comes in 2 basic colors, Graphite and Soft Gold,
7.35mm thick, or rather thin, 74.7mm wide and 152.7mm in length, weighing only 158 g.

Taken with OnePlus One
It has a nice big 1080p Full HD (1920 x 1080 pixels) 401 ppi display which has an 16 : 9 aspect ratio, covered with Corning® Gorilla® Glass 4 and is "guarded" with a 0.755 mm bezel.
A front Sony IMX179 camera with 8 MP and 1.4 µm waveband, with EIS, fixed autofocus an aperture of f/2.0 "Auto selfie Smile Capture", didn't really try this one out as I don't really use the front end camera, and can do 1080p videos at 30fps. The features the rear camera is equipped with are Auto-HDR, Dynamic Denoise, Manual Control, Clear Image.
with the home button which can also be used as fingerprint sensor.

Taken with OnePlus One
The back of the phone has a Sony IMX 298 Sensor with 16 MP and 1.12 µm waveband.
OIS and EIS, PDAF autofocus an aperture of f/2.0, 4K resolution on videos at 30fps, slow motion 720p video at 120fps and has RAW Image support.

Taken with OnePlus One
The bottom has one speaker on the bottom, where also the 3.5 mm audio jack and the USB 2.0, Type-C port are located.

Taken with OnePlus One
On the right side of the phone there the Dual nano-SIM slot and the lock/unlock button.

Taken with OnePlus One
The left side of the phone contains the volume buttons and the Alert Slider, a cool button which lets u control notifications. Basically u can put all notifications on or off or set leave "important" notifications turned on.

The top of the port is clear with no ports, buttons or speakers.

Taken with OnePlus 3, HQ

Taken with OnePlus 3, no HQ
It comes with the "DASH" charger, (nothing to do with the DASH from crypto:P), which really charges the phone fast, in less then an hour the phone is 100% charged! A pre-applied Screen Protector and a SIM Tray Ejector.

Specifications of the phone
CPU:
Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 820,Quad Core, Kryo™ - 2x 2.2 GHz, 2x 1.6 GHz
GPU:
Adreno™ 530
RAM:
6GB LPDDR4
Storage:
64GB UFS 2.0
Sensors:
Fingerprint sensor, Hall sensor, Accelerometor, Gyroscope, Proximity sensor,
Ambient light sensor and Electronic Compass

Audio Supported Formats:
Playback - MP3, AAC, AAC+, WMA (v9 and v10), AMR-NB, AMR-WB, WAV, FLAC, WAV, OGG
Recording: - WAV AAC AMR EVRC QCELP
Video Supported Formats :
Playback - HEVC (H.265), H.264, MPEG-4, DivX, Xvid, MPEG-2, MP4, MOV, 3GP, AVI, MKV, ASF
Recording - AVC
Image Supported Formats:
Playback - JPEG, PNG, BMP, GIF
Output - JPEG

The OnePlus 3 runs on OxygenOS based on Android™ Marshmallow.

MY IMPRESSION
I have been using the phone for about a week now, and have to say I'm pretty impressed, the RAM and the CPU are more then strong enough to keep the phone running smoothly all the time. I tested it by opening all applications, i got 32 atm, and it wasn't lagging even a tiny bit. The pictures are really good, the speaker has a decent volume for a single bottom speaker.
The pictures are really good, the speaker has a decent volume for a single bottom speaker.
The display is really good, I can easy notice the difference between the OnePlus 1 and 3.
Another "small" thing I noticed is that the Wifi is blazing fast!
There are also a few things I don't like about the phone, one would be the camera that is a bit popped out of the back, the OnePlus 1 had a camera which was not popping out like on the most Androids, which I liked allot!
Another thing I don't like is OnePlus getting rid of their "grippy? back. I like how it feels under the hand on the OnePlus 1.

Taken with the OnePlus 3
There's also a negative side in the DASH charging which I see, the phone is charged quickly but the battery only lasts about 1 day. As a OnePlus 1 user I'm used to the battery lasting multiple days. Maybe they could have made the phone a bit thicker and heavier by making the battery thicker, and with that also cover the popped out camera? Just my 2 cents.
Overall I love the phone! It's amazingly fast, doesn't lag, works smooth without any errors, has a great camera, charges quickly, nothing really more I can ask for!:)

For the end some photos I took with the OnePlus 3!

A View on Zagreb, the capital of Croatia from the hill Medvednica

*A view on Medvednica and its fortress Medvedgrad (Beartown;)

If you have questions feel free to ask in the comment!
Let me know if you liked the review, or if you have some tips for improving!
Thanks for reading!
Kind regards, OZ