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watching oneplus mature as a company has been kind of like watching a kid girl up in high school he was the kid who got caught picking his nose and eating it but like he had this sick home theater setup for his xbox so we all pretended it never happened in college he blossomed into this wicked athlete who ended up getting cut from the team for blazing up behind the portables and now he's back to show me what he can do now that he's all grown up this is the 1+2 cooller masters master case maker five features they're freeform modular system allowing you to customize adjust and upgrade make it yours through the link down below so why couldn't one Plus repeat what they did with the 1+1 their first flagship class phone at an impossibly low price of 299 US dollars well because it's easier to do that when you piggyback off of your parent company as an experimental startup project with no expectations of profitability you can't actually do the marketing customer service and both software and hardware are D necessary to compete as a global brand on margins that thin so some compromises got made on the oneplus 2 including its lack of NFC and its pricing was still higher even for the base 16 gig model at 329 US dollars but our users really that sensitive to a few bucks what if we didn't have to make any compromises and the device could still be a couple of hundred dollars cheaper than its flagship competitors well that seems to be the formula this time and I think it worked let's have a look at this puppy the one plus three is thinner than the Samsung Galaxy s7 at seven point three five millimeters though it's hard to say just how much of how great it feels in the hand is due to this and how much is due to the excellent weight distribution and very similar overall weight in spite of the significantly larger screen 5.5 inches that's still too big for my hands but the aluminum alloy construction is very confidence-inspiring and I can say confidently that it's the most comfortable five-and-a-half inches that I have ever held thanks to the rounded rear edges reasonable sized chin bar and super slim bezels around it's 1080p display which okay so there's one compromise oneplus has opted for a 1080 screen again but I didn't disagree with their choice last time and I don't disagree with this time and there are some upgrades to it too the three gets this wonderfully high contrast non-reflective and miraculously not oversaturated AMOLED panel with white point adjustments built right into the operating system so you can tune it according to your preferences direct sunlight performance is not quite there with the galaxy s7 and 1080p is not ideal for VR so residents of the planet mercury who are really into Google cardboard need not apply but it is a great display above it next to the eight colour notification LED is an 8 megapixel 1080p video selfie camera that falls comfortably into good enough for front-facing if you need better turn your damn phone around territory and then below the screen is one of my favorite things about the op3 Samsung's marriage to ripping off the iPhones physical home button is becoming more and more out of place and the 1 plus 3 is in my mind the golden standard for how to handle Android buttons you can choose to use the capacitive Hardware buttons with a very fast fingerprint sensor embedded in the middle one or you can choose to disable them outright and offer on-screen buttons and in either configuration you can set back and recent apps to whichever side you prefer and oxygen OS as clean and stock Android like as it is includes a number of these small but actually meaningful customizations some like the invert color mode or the night mode I didn't really care for but others drawing on-screen long press and double press gestures for launching apps and they're easy memo taking and shelf when you swipe to the left of the homescreen sucked me right in on the left of the device you'll find a button I didn't really use much that lets you allow all some or no notifications through a one button feeder mode if you will and one of one pluses few missteps the volume rocker which is directly opposing the lock button making it hard to especially adjust volume up without mashing the lock over on the right side that sits below the sim and only SIM no microSD expansion that's last real flaw I'm going to point out tray on the bottom the good stuff continues the built-in speaker is downward-facing but it is surprisingly loud with only a little bit of distortion creeping in at the top two volume settings and this is really smart if they did it on purpose the grill is on the opposite side compared to the iPhone 6s and the galaxy s7 which means that while you do have to do the palm cupping thing it works way better than usual because it fires right into the rounded part of your palm cool between the grill and the headphone jack which by the way I prefer on top so I don't mash capacitive buttons trying to take my phone out of my pocket in case anyone from oneplus is actually watching this is a USB type-c port with support for another solid feature up to 4 amp charging at 5 volts that allows the 3000 milliamp hour battery to reach 60% in about half an hour and this they claim is without generating as much heat in the phone itself as other quick charging solutions for less thermal throttling while gaming on wall power for example here's a thermal camera shot versus the HTC 10 which uses Qualcomm quick charge 3.0 for comparison but without the right horses you wouldn't be gaming much anyway I haven't been avoiding that on purpose the three packs of Snapdragon 820 6 gigs of lpddr4 ram 64 gigs in the base configuration of u FS 2.0 storage which makes the lack of microSD quite a bit more forgivable IMO dual sims NFC Gorilla Glass 4 great call quality and a 16 megapixel front camera so on par with pretty much anything else out there in theory all at its 399 price point however we know cameras are a critical feature and we know that megapixels do not a camera make but there's more good news the camera on the oneplus 3 kicks ass it launches lightning fast it focuses very quickly it shoots 4k video and Raw photos it features ample manual controls in its stock app it's image quality is competitive enough with flagship phones like the galaxy s7 and the iPhone 6s that when Brandon took his test shots around to folks here at the office even if they could pick out a winner and it wasn't the one plus three it took a while and they had to look at it pretty closely and remember that these are much more expensive devices compared to my pre-production axon 7 a more comfortably priced device there is no contest whatsoever I am a little salty that it can't snap a photo or start shooting video from the same initial screen instead requiring a swipe but hopefully one plus are you listening that can be fixed in software and then I wouldn't feel like I was missing out on really any part of the s7 s camera experience by switching I don't actually know what's more remarkable here the way oneplus has grown so much in such a short span from a weird offshoot from a Chinese brand to a bonafide sustainable competitor in the high-end smartphone market did I mention by the way the deplorable invite system is gone or the way that through all of it they have proven to be the only high-tech company in the mobile space or otherwise who actually knows how to count so I'll just congratulate them on both and say good work on the oneplus 3 keep it up you know who else did a good job D brand cuz D brand made a skin for the oneplus 3 already and you can head over to D brand comm we've got a link in the video description and check out the wide variety of skins they have not just for the oneplus 3 but also for a huge variety of other devices including phones game consoles game controllers and even laptop computers the best part about deep brand site has got to be their configurator which lets you take all the different skins wood grain carbon fiber solid color and preview what they look like as a precision fitted skin on your device including combining different colors with other colors like I did in my iPhone se review to great effect that is one eye catching phone so check it out at the link in the video description that's deep and skins makers of the high quality vinyl skins that you'll see on pretty much every phone that we review over here thanks for watching guys if this video sucked you know what to do but if it was awesome get subscribed wait wherever that is hit that like button or even consider supporting us directly by using our affiliate code to shop at Amazon instructions up there buying cool shirt like this one at the link in video description or by joining our community forum where you can ask your tech questions answer other people's tech questions and basically just get in on the conversation now that you're done doing all that stuff you're probably wondering 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