I had purchased this phone 6 months ago for my daily usage after doing a lot of research like all we INDIANS do before spending hard earned 30K rupees. This review can be a bit lengthy, but please read the full review before buying this phone. I had shared my good and bad experiences with this phone.
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???? IN THE BOX ????
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The phone(OnePlus 3 with some screen protection preapplied)
The DASH Charger(Hero in the deal)
Standard USB to type C cable for charging and data syncing
Standard manuals and documents with some OnePlus stickers.
SIM tray ejector pin
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???? GOOD ????
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-> The build quality of the phone is very good. Its made up of full body space grade aluminium build which makes the phone solid and also light weight. The phone is very sleek at about 7mm thickness but it has a camera bump which I doesn’t like.
-> This phone comes out with a fullHD Amoled Display with very good viewing angles. In this feature it really matches with the high end Samsung devices. The only problem is its resolution. But with naked eye I doesn’t even fell the difference.
-> This phone comes with Snapdragon 820 chipset packed with 6 GB of RAM which does all the multitasking and performance freak usage very easily. But there is a catch in this which I will tell later in this review.
-> The DASH charging is the best. It charges the full battery from about 5% in just 66 minutes. I have found this better than the quick charge facility available on most of the flagship phones like Samsung Galaxy S7 and Nexus phones which take about 90 to 100 minutes to fully charge the battery. And I am very pleased to tell you that the phone actually remains cool during charging(which is not true in case of quick charging provided in the other flagship phones). This feature is currently available on this phone.
-> This phone comes with a physical slider button like the one we found generally in the iPhones(We didn’t find this type of slider button in any other android devices). This button can be customized. I have set it to bring the phone to’do not disturb mode’ by just sliding this button.
-> The phone comes with a finger-print sensor which is in the front bottom middle. This fingerprint sensor is pretty fast as compared with OnePlus 2. But as for my choice I like the fingerprint sensor to be in the back(But as I said its my choice only).
-> Camera performance of this device is also very good. It has 16 MP primary which has a pretty good advanced options to capture pics and videos. As compared to Xiaomi Mi 5 the picture quality is good but we can’t compare this to a Samsung Galaxy S7 camera which is supreme. The camera comes with laser autofocus which enables us to focus very quickly. The camera UI is very good with very fast shutter speed. The front camera is also good but the quality can be improved during low light situations.
-> Really a FLAGSHIP KILLER with very heavy packed hardware at this price range.
-> The Oxygen OS is very close to stock android with a lot of customization. In my usage, once the phone gets shutoff while I was on a conference call but except that I find nothing odd. This UI doesn’t lag and keep upto 10 apps running in the background while multitasking.
-> Calling on this phone is good and it is VoLTE supported. I have tried this with Airtel 3G and Jio 4G. Both works great.
-> Price is the area which makes the phone a flagship killer. The hardwares and features it is giving can be seen only in phones which are double the price of this phone.
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Not much but there are few which I found in my case. Infact there is nothing which doesn’t have some cons, .
-> When I bought the phone new it has very bad RAM management. It shuts the background apps very aggressively which bother a lot for a multitasker like me. But after a month an update rolled-out which solves all the problems I have earlier. Then after lot of updates come out which even improves the camera quality and battery management.
-> The phone has a single inbuilt speaker which is not so good. I find it bad as I sometimes is not able to listen to the ringing of the phone if it is kept in other rooms. Music playback through the speakers is not good. If you are a kind of person who used to listen music through the phone speakers then you should consider it testing before buying.
-> I found the placement of the 3.5mm jack to be weird. Its located at the bottom near the type-C port which makes me difficult to keep the phone in pocket while listening to music through headphones.
-> The phone doesn’t have feature like radio or IR blaster. If its standing against the flagships then these are mere basic features everyone should have.
-> The phone has a camera bump without any protection which make the camera glass prone to scratches. To solve this I generally use this phone with a back cover on it.
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MY OPINION
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I have been using this phone for 4 months as my primary phone and I am very happy with it. As per my opinion you should definitely go for this if you have a budget of around 30K. The only major problem I found is the phone’s speaker sound quality and if you doesn’t consider that then this phone will be best. And I am pretty sure that you will not get these type of specifications in any other phone.
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I hope you like this review and if you have any doubts or questions regarding this or any gadget, please feel free to comment below, I will definitely reply. For faster response please email me(email address is in my profile).
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