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hey what is up guys MP PhD here and this is the third phone from oneplus it's the one plus three it's a new phone from a not so new anymore company so oneplus has made their name from their previous two phones the oneplus one and the oneplus two and both were really well known for their impressive specs for a low price big specs small price that's what oneplus does best and they are absolutely back at it again with this one plus three so just to get them out the way this one plus three is rocking a Snapdragon 820 chip the audrina 530 GPU 64 gigs of non-expandable flash storage and six gigs of ram six gigabytes of ram obviously they're flexing a little bit here but we'll get to that in a bit so I think the design is one of this phones best assets this year it's pretty clean all around it's a full unibody metal jacket as you can see clean lines and subtle curves to feel good in the hand and quality button placement so they're all easily recognizable and easy to press and it actually keeps that alert slider - from last year that I liked I still wish I could reverse the order of the alert slider and the settings to make going down the silent switch but whatever it's still there but overall yeah it's a simple low-risk design oneplus didn't take any huge Gamble's with the outside of this phone because that's not really what they do if you look at this phone you don't really see anything design-wise that hasn't showed up in another smartphone before it so they didn't like take away the headphone jack or anything they didn't go with dual cameras or detachable modules or magnets or pins it's really much closer to I guess a traditional look it even looks a little bit like the iPhone 6s on the bottom you could say with some slightly different angles and some different looking chapters and ports I'd say the worst thing about this design is probably the camera bump on the back which is definitely brand new because I used to praise oneplus for filling out the smartphone body with battery deer every smartphone manufacturer ever if you're using a large camera module which you probably are feel free to fill out the rest of the phone's body with battery like this it will not make the phone too heavy or too thick and everyone will appreciate the extra battery thank you now I get the one plus three that is way thinner has a camera bump and has a smaller battery anyway up front on this phone is classic one plus here a 1080p display and your choice between capacitive buttons or on-screen buttons thanks oxygen OS I happen to prefer the capacitive ones this time around and the display is again really good for a 1080p display it's not going to match the quad HD panels from Samsung and sharpness or brightness but those are the best panels on the market and this little guy puts up a respectable fight it's a 5.5 inch OLED display with some really thin side bezels less than a millimeter on each side I like that and it gets pretty bright so it's viewable outdoors and of course it's battery efficient by definition now know the irony of launching a 1080p phone with the VR event did not go unnoticed but oneplus actually just kind of says yet people don't really do the whole smartphone in headset thing very often so 1080p is just fine and I tend to agree with them on that plus these high-end chips inside are so used to powering these big quad HD panels that you pretty much eliminate any graphic slowdowns with the audrina 530 just pushing 1080p things are super smooth battery gets a nice benefit and most people don't know the difference if they never hold it up next to a galaxy s7 the display looks really good the fingerprint reader is also much improved it seems to be now to me the second-fastest fingerprint reader I've ever used in a smartphone right up next to touch ID on the new iPhones I would really only sometimes have it forget my finger once in a while but that was rare so I loved being able to secure my phone really quickly but still unlock my phone super fast fingerprint reader was a nice touch to see it improved and actually using this phone is the best part of it in my opinion again it's not really that risky at all it's oxygen OS 3.11 based on android marshmallow as you'd expect from oneplus and it has that stock ish Nexus feel plus a bunch of extra usability features stuffed in there for a better experience nothing crazy not a huge skin or a bunch of new icons or bloatware or anything like that but more like pure Android plus a bunch of neat customization features that are awesome if you want to use them but they stay out of the way if you don't you can definitely tell oxygen OS has gotten a lot of fine-tuning and polish since the last version especially on the oneplus 2 so that's nice to see and I usually go straight for the Google launcher on most new smartphones but I like that home screen customization here is now super easy so with a long press you can now mess around with what type of Google search bar you have home screen grid size etc and even the Shelf is back and a bit better than before I still don't use it much to the left of all your home screens but now you can add memos or pin frequent contacts reminders stuff like that it holds an auto refresh in weather widget now which is cool I still think Google now cards are way more useful though I kind of just wonder if they could have built in a page like that but I guess I'll have to settle with a widget or eventually using the Google launcher anyway but either way as you would probably expect with these top notch specs a 1080p display and near stock Android and fast flash storage and it just absurd 6 gigabytes of RAM this very well may be the smoothest quickest Android handset I've ever used alongside Nexus 6p right now I'm just hoping it lasts so some phones start off smooth but then they find a way to stutter and chop even with high-end specs because of their software their bloat I'll be using this phone for a couple of weeks now and it's held up just fine I don't think I ever got over 4 gigabytes of active RAM usage during my regular use even with a game in the background and I don't know if a preload times even matter after a certain point because the ones that were cleared from Ram opened up fast again anyway battery life through all this was also pretty good although I think I kind of expected a little better it was inconsistent at first but then it leveled out I would give it a B B+ sort of good rating with a 3000 milliamp hour battery and a 1080p display so I was consistently getting near 4 hours of screen on time with my usage I gotta wonder though what they could have done if they didn't make the phone so thin I mean 7.3 millimeters in a Full Metal Jacket it's sexy and everything but I got to wonder how it would have lasted if they follow their own example from last year and made it a little thicker with like a 3600 milliamp hour battery or something but oh well now one of the headlining features of this phone is actually they're fast charging which they call - charging you actually get a four amp charger in the box which sounds crazy because most smartphones are one or two amp chargers and it charged so fast it actually changed my charging habits this phone and the galaxy s7 are actually the only phones I stopped charging overnight and just started topping them off whenever they were low like in the morning when I wake up I mean you can still charge every night if you want to but when you plug in and get 60% charge in half an hour it kind of stopped needing to so - charging is apparently much more efficient with temperature regulation which is why the brick is a little bigger but it'll keep pumping the current even when the phone is on and the screen is on and when you're using it where that's where most other phones will slow down their quick charge there is no wireless charging since it's the metal back but I'm happy with the convenience of fast charging this guy just like I am with the galaxy s7 the camera on the oneplus 3 has you guessed it no big gambles but just a solid bunch of choices that put it together it's a 16 megapixel Sony sensor F 2.0 aperture has optical image stabilization and phase detection autofocus for the quickness the camera app itself is decently fast both to open up and take a picture so that's good and by default auto HDR is enabled so it doesn't take that much extra time to actually take and process that shot so that's nice focus is nice and quick but of course you can turn off HDR to speed it up a little more if you know you're not going to need that but the photos it takes are I would say fairly well balanced they're sort of tiptoeing a line between being vibrant but not too oversaturated and I'd say crisp without being super over sharpened again you can tell there's definitely sharpening but it's not too crazy exposure I'd say it likes to overexpose just a little bit like a lot of other smartphone cameras but that's fine because dynamic range is actually really good and this is all really nice to see from a smartphone that costs way less than the top dogs usually you see the camera quality dropping off as one of the big sacrifices in smartphones that drop the price a lot this is one of the areas where the oneplus 3 held up that really makes it worth a while this is awesome I think the mark of a good camera is one that lets you just snap a picture and then put it away and forget about it and it's an amazing picture and actually kind of happened to me so I was up on campus in a sort of a low-light scenario I was going to go meet and people who play frolf and I just looked around and I said hey this this is like a nice low-light camera test sort of environment so I took a disc out snap the photo of it and then put it away and then we went and played frolf of course I come back to my computer a couple hours later and it's uploaded to Google photos and I take a look at it and I realize like that's that's nice like that's a really good low-light photo this is the first shot I took and I didn't even think about taking another one I just open the app snapped it put it away and went on with the day and it looks pretty clean so performed pretty admirably in low-light in Auto obviously moving objects are still going to be a blur but the camera also has full manual mode if you want to get fancy with it it has that and the raw photos and to top it off 4k video with stabilization so it's a complete smartphone camera package and that actually kind of summarizes the oneplus three you know it's despite being so simple really is still the complete package it doesn't have any huge big gimmicks or risks that may or may not be worth the money like trying to be modular or something like that but it also isn't like having any glaring emissions or missing sensors or missing NFC like maybe it did last year you can even say it's boring but you know there's a couple first party oneplus material cases so you can check those out if you want the sandstone back of course or there's deep brand skins if you want even more looks this for example is the concrete look you could say it's groundbreaking I'll link them below but it comes down to this my 5 pillars for a great smartphone are still great performance display battery life camera and build quality and it pretty much nails all those again I said before smartphones in the last couple years are getting so good that we tend to measure them by what's wrong with them instead of what's right about them and this applies again we're at the worst thing about the 1+3 is that it's so damn clean it's just almost boring almost unexcited when you see other smartphones actually trying to be you know modular or having these removable parts or magnets and pins or showing up with these fancy dual camera systems or trying to be shatterproof all those things are cool but oneplus isn't trying to do any of that they're just showing up crushing the spec game and selling it for less than the phone you were thinking about buying I mean six eggs a ram I think you want that so that's the story for this phone it's a pretty clean experience I'd say it's a green light to buy if you're coming from a previous like one or two year old stock Android phone like a nexus 5x or a oneplus one or a Nexus 5 this is an awesome upgrade and even just compared to other things in the price range the experience is top-notch so uh that's pretty much it thanks for watching this video review hope you enjoyed it I'll talk to you guys the next one thanks