OnePlus 3T is technically a mid-cycle upgrade. On the design front nothing has changed, the dimensions and weight of this phone are exactly the same as the OnePlus 3, which I’d say is good. Good because OnePlus 3T has a bigger 3400 mAh battery compared to the older OnePlus 3 smartphone. I got the gunmetal colour option for review, which looks more classy compared to Soft Gold on the regular OnePlus 3.
Like I said, this phone follows the exact same design; so you have the antenna bands on the top and bottom, the camera in the centre but with a new sapphire lens cover for protection, and the OnePlus logo just below that. It has CNC-driller speaker at the bottom, the USB 2.0 Type-C port in the centre, just below the fingerprint scanner/home button, and the headphone jack next to it. The volume button, the notification slider button are on the left and the power button and SIM tray is on the right hand side.
OnePlus 3T has the exact same design as the OnePlus 3.
As a design it is familiar, easy to use and kind of boring. But hey, OnePlus isn’t the only player that can be held guilty of this.
So what’s good?
Let’s start with the big change which is the battery, and the one area where I feel the OnePlus 3T has a big advantage in this price segment. The phone will easily last more than a day; in my own use case I charged it once during the day for like half an hour maximum, and I didn’t have to worry about the phone running out of battery before I was home. I’ve been using two SIMs on this; a Vodafone and Reliance Jio 4G SIM, and despite heavy usage, which includes a flood of notifications, browsing the web, downloading apps, etc, I’m more than happy with the battery.