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OnePlus 3 Featuring 5.5-inch FHD Display, Snapdragon 820 SoC, 6GB RAM Launched at $400
Chinese startup OnePlus is only three years old, but you will be surprised with just how much importance and traction it receives from the Android community. Its well-built, high-end Android smartphones are priced fairly aggressively, allowing it to compete with the likes of Samsung, HTC, and LG among others in the cut-throat smartphone market. The company today unveiled its third flagship smartphone, the OnePlus 3. Priced at $399 (for the unlocked version), the OnePlus 3 sports a 5.5-inch AMOLED display (the company is reluctant on moving to QHD display, insisting that higher resolution will unnecessarily drain the battery faster). It is powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 SoC, coupled with 6GB of RAM, a 16-megapixel rear camera with OIS, an 8-megapixel front-facing shooter, a fingerprint scanner, and 64GB of built-in storage. The dual-SIM capable smartphone houses a 3,000mAh battery, which the company says can go from 0 to 60 percent in just 30 minutes. In its review (the media received the device a week ahead of the launch), CNET finds the OnePlus 3 to be an "excellent performer", and its nearly stock Android operating system a refreshing change. The publication concludes that at $400 price point, OnePlus 3 is a great purchase.
The voice of reason! Thank goodness some manufacturer is finally being sensible instead of blindly following the "more pixels = better" mantra even when the pixels are too small to see.
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
No SD Slot, No Sale. It's that simple.
This isn't their first phone.
This isn't their second phone.
I don't mind since I only use english and the Chinese cannot understand that.
I used to be a fan of wireless charging, but when I last used it it out around 1A, which is a slow charge these days, and made my phones very hot, which is bad for battery life. USB-C ports seem to hold up better than older formats, so I'm less concerned about plugging in these days.
Do we really need 6 GB of RAM on a phone? Until Android gets something like Continuum on Windows phone, where you can dock the phone and use it like a desktop, there seems little reason to have that much RAM. I guess they've just run out of things to upgrade to justify the high price. Personally, I won't spend much more than $200 on a phone at this point. Things are changing too fast on the software side, and updates to operating systems are often not available. You basically have to get a new phone every year or two to be guaranteed having the latest OS, and spending $400+ on a new phone every year or two is a little rich for my tastes.
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
Incomplete technology? Charging via "contacts at the bottom" has been used for decades, son.
OxygenOS was developed by OnePlus, not the Chinese government. Unless you care to cite a source which shows otherwise, of course. The OxygenOS kernel is here if you'd like to go through it:
https://github.com/OnePlusOSS/...
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
My Oneplus One arrived with Cyanogenmod installed (I never switched to OxygenOS after the deal with Cyanogen fell through). There isn't a single app that can't be uninstalled, there aren't any paid apps at all as far as I can tell. Everything was pretty stock CM, I assume it's the same deal with the newer phone. I may upgrade, but the only thing that is stopping me is that my phone still works fine, that's why I never got the Oneplus Two. The only things that may be pushing me to upgrade are stupid bugs in some of the CM apps, for example the email client doesn't exactly download and view attachments (you know, not that something like viewing a PDF from email is a huge use case or anything), and the messaging app is slow to update the list of messages, it sits there for a while before displaying anything. I may finally just install a different email client, but those are the only real gripes I have. There are a couple settings I'd like a way to change also, for example I don't need a notification every time my phone gains or loses a signal, and it would be great if I could turn my phone silent and disable the vibrate without turning off all notifications.
For your other questions or concerns, Oneplus has an active community forum that should be able to address anything.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
it had better be an octoband covering ALL bands possible. Their stupidity of not covering the 700mhz band on the X made a perfect phone into a pile of poo.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
They pushed through standardization on micro-usb, so yes, why not? Governments are good for lots of standardization type directives. Only morons think that government can't get anything right.
Only I can judge you.
Whenever I get a new phone, either because the old one broke or I just want an upgrade, I move my SD card to my new phone and all my stuff is there. I can't do that with built-in memory. If all photos and data is stored on built-in memory, I'm screwed when the phone dies. Yes, I have a backup, but that's plan B; I don't want to rely on the backup as being the only way to move my data to a new device. If the "backup" is plan A for moving data, that would leave me with no actual backup. For that reason, an SD card is a requirement for me.
Ocassionally I also have need to put the SD card in my computer, such as to copy over a large folder of media files. That's not as important as the case above of moving to a new phone, but it does make an SD card useful.
Some phones do. I mean, they don't use eMMC like the rest of them, or UFS, the successor to eMMC. They use a real SSD controller.
Apple's iPhone 6s uses a PCI-E/NVMe based controller using a TLC+SLC flash combination to give fairly impressive speeds for the storage system.
Supposedly the SSD controller is similar to what Apple uses for their laptops, though it's single channel which limits the speed you can get since you can't parallelize across multiple NAND dice.
The problem with any backdoor is that someone else can figure it out. So even if you don't care that the Chinese government can read your email, you should care that someone somewhere might find the same vulnerability and use it to capture your credit card number.
That's arguably the biggest reason backdoors are always wrong - even if you trust the FBI and the NSA, you implicitly have to trust every black hat hacker in the world too because sooner or later they'll get the keys to the same door the FBI and NSA are using.
dude they're thinning away the 3.5mm headphone jack. Phone makers are idiots who think thinner is better they won't be happy until our phones fit in magic the gathering card sleeves.
Just another second banana