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one-plus commands that you should never settle in shopping a smartphone we'll be testing that edict over the next couple days but first we have to get this thing out of the box and set it up we were sent to reviewers kit which comes in a cool slider box with a collection of snap-on cases I'm partial to a lighter color woodgrain personally a handy quick car charger is included we have a VR headset which we'll talk about in a future video and of course the phone a cracking open the box the one plus three greets you from a red insert underneath which we've got a charger and USB cable and a container filled with the papers we should actually read through at some point while reviewing phones now let's just peel this backing off but I'll keep the screen guard on for now we get alternatingly critical comments as to whether we should leave those on but I want to protect the screen while reviewing this phone so on it stays firing up the oneplus three first boot happens fast getting you into the setup process quickly this might be the fastest phone we've initially launched while producing these unboxings getting the phone up and running is pretty straightforward there aren't any strange additional accounts to log into or create the fingerprint scanning process is par for the course and we are happy to see an always-on sensor below the screen thankfully the only major additions from oneplus come in the form of a handful of gestures you can turn on or disable before delivering you to the home screen just a second though this this is a terrible wallpaper okay that's better focusing on the initial out-of-the-box impressions this is a well-built phone metal construction doesn't wow us like it used to as there are a number of really well engineered low-cost metal phones available these days but oneplus has delivered an attractive and well engineered handset many will point to some HTC inspiration on the shape color and antenna bands but when compared to phones like the one m9 the sharper edges here and gentle tapers here work better than previous HTC s we've reviewed there's a shiny track framing the screen but nothing so bold as the large chamfers found on the HTC 10 now walking around the hardware there's nothing going on with the top of the phone the right side is home to the power button in SIM card tray the left is where you'll find a volume rocker and three-position mute switch and the bottom is pretty busy landing the headphone jack you Espie type-c connector and the speaker the 16 megapixel camera sensor is built into a module which does protrude a fair distance from the rear of the phone and which sits above a single LED flash a front face is dominated by a 5.5 inch 1080p AMOLED display and a terrific screen to bezel ratio there's not a lot of wasted space the chin is home to the fingerprint sensor flanked by capacitive controls the 1 plus will give you the ability to activate on-screen controls if you want them instead something we wish was a native Android option and the forehead delivers a small phone speaker and an 8 megapixel selfie camera oh and one plus does give us NFC this year so well done there while this is running a branded version of Android called oxygen OS a lot of elements will be familiar to stock Android users the notification shade and settings menus are largely unmolested and I'm delighted to see a clean simple app drawer organized alphabetically by default major thumbs up there well done 1 + changes to the user interface come in the addition of a side panel which users can arrange a vertical column of widgets and shortcuts and a handful of gestures vertical slides on the homescreen can pull notifications or search the double tap will wake the screen and drawing commands on the display when off can fire up a music player flashlight or the camera though that's also backed up by a power button DoubleTap so how does the oneplus 3 perform top-tier specs will always get our attention but is the software optimized to take advantage of the hardware how about the camera or audio playback oneplus makes a compelling argument on paper but do we have to settle on some of those features to reach this $399 price well you'll just have to tune back in for our future videos and our real camera review coming soon as always thanks so much for watching be sure to subscribe to this channel as we have some deep dives planned for the oneplus 3 and hit that thumbs up button for a little extra positive reinforcement for pocket now I'm Juan Carlos bag now some gadget guy on Twitter and Instagram and I will catch you all on the next video