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hey guys johnathan here the 1+3 has been out for a couple weeks now if you're considering picking one up here are 10 things to know first off the price to build quality is insane for 399 you get an all metal unibody design that looks and feels fantastic not going to lie though it does kind of look like an HTC 10 swipe right an iPhone 6s plus did some stuff you need to throw some earmuffs on for me to talk about and out came this but at the end of the day I get it we've kind of reached a point where there's only so much you can do with a smart phone design and similarities aside it's a well-built really pretty phone on the left-hand side above the volume rockers that is a priority switch what this does is allow you to shuffle between silent priority and all notifications on the right there's not a ton going on you have a dual SIM tray so there is no microSD card expansion here and then below that the sleep/wake button which also double functions to open the camera if you click press it twice moving towards the bottom there's a single speaker which sounds good not great a USB type-c port headphone jack and then lastly towards the back the only real drawback with the design is a pretty apparent camera hump number two and this is one of the most important factors surrounding the oneplus story and that's the fact that finally there is no more invite system so what that means is you can go onto one plus's website there's no codes there's the wait list just the ability to buy a freaking phone now as of now there is one model one storage option and that is it but there is expected to be a gold model launching later this year now number three and again this directly correlates with the price point and how much you're getting for the money and that's the fact that this thing is packing monster specs inside is a quad-core Snapdragon 820 which isn't crazy by any means what is crazy though is that this thing has six gigabytes of RAM now to be honest I think way too many people get caught up in specs and cores and clock speeds because at the end of the day was actually more important is how the phone performs more importantly how it feels the good news though is the one plus three for me has felt great whether you want to test that to the specs or to the RAM I think it's more of a combination with oxygen OS because combined it results in a super lightweight snappy fluid experience now I did notice Walt game and it did get a little hotter than it would have liked I'm not going to get crazy and whip out temperature guns or anything but I do want to point out a negative along with the positive now number four is the fact this doesn't have a 1440p display but that's okay I've seen the one Plus where you take a ton of heat for not only using a 1080p display but also for using a pentile panel and for one the people that get that hard core are probably not people you want to hang out with - the phone is 399 bucks and three to the majority people out there the screen looks really good there's a ton of references against galaxy s7 the g5 the major flagships and again all of those phones are almost twice the price now as a screen perfect absolutely not and one of the drawbacks I notice was using this thing outside but it was really bright outside this thing struggle to keep up making it fairly hard to use in those conditions aside from that though whether you're watching movies gaming or browsing the web if anyone tells you the screen looks bad they are crazy that number 5 is unlike the 1 plus 2 the 1 plus 3 now features NFC and while this isn't anything to praise the 1 plus 3 for it is nice they finally included it the number 6 is well there is in quick charge 3.0 and the 1 plus 3 there is fast charging with - charge now if you've never heard of - charge that is because it is 1 + is proprietary fast charge solution and while there may be a potential negative there due to the fact you're going to have to use - charge products to get the benefits that aside it works crazy well starting with a battery life percentage of 38% after 30 minutes of charging that could have juiced up all the way to 90% the number 7 is on paper the camera looks fantastic a 16 megapixel rear shooter an 8 megapixel camera on the front but in reality it does fall a little short the negatives definitely fall towards taking video with the 1 + 3 for the most part taking stills in the 1 + 3 is stellar photos were sharp crisp there's tons of detail the colors are solid in certain situations it did struggle a little bit with dynamic range especially in brighter situations like this where you can see the highlights get blown out but again as a whole it's a great stills camera video on the other hand not so much they're supposed to be stabilization in this but no matter how steady you try to hold this the 1 + 3 does an amazing job at making it look shaky you can also see it has a ton of trouble auto focusing which results in a really jittery image and while there are a ton of good things with the 1 + 3 as far as taking video it falls flat on its face the number 8 and jumping back to some positivity the fingerprint reader is crazy fast with the oneplus 2 that was always a step behind other fingerprint readers but with the oneplus 3 it is instantaneous put your finger down and you are in the screen the number 9 is a slide all of the hype surrounding battery life with the oneplus 2 where you can expect decent to good but not great - battery life at the end of the day no matter how you spin it this is a 3000 milliamp hour battery which for me on a phone like this is a little small they went all the way to the moon with the RAM so I wish they would have put some of that ambition towards battery life ideally a four thousand milliamp hour battery or at the very least 3500 again this is by no means me saying that this is going to yield poor battery life I just wish with oneplus always dubbing themselves as the flagship killer they would have gone a little above and beyond in the battery department all in all though you will more than likely get through a full day if you happen to drain your battery fast luckily there is - charge now lastly at number 10 and this is probably my favorite thing about the oneplus 3 and that's the fact that oxygen OS is extremely useful and customizable small things like being able to swipe down literally anywhere on your screen to access notifications the ability to switch between software and hardware buttons being able to switch between both a light and dark theme and what I've always thought to be really cool is you can change songs by drawing a less-than or greater-than sign aside from that - 1 + 3 isn't perfect but for the money it's a fantastic phone and more importantly you can actually buy it this time