In 2014, Carl Pei\u2019s craving to recreate the techie world gave birth to the startup Chinese OnePlus with the mantra \u201cnever settle\u201d. If you do not know, that mantra was almost a punctuation mark for the late Steve Jobs. OnePlus made its aims very clear with the debut of the OnePlus One smartphone; a phone dressed in premium suit but with a half-price tag.<\/p>\n
Expectation heightened with the introduction of OnePlus One.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, OnePlus got excited and like a happy candle flame, consumed its own fat and produced a less imposing OnePlus 2 Smartphone.<\/p>\n
OnePlus is back; this time around with a flagship product, OnePlus 3.<\/p>\n
And that is what I call, an image of lust. Here is why.<\/p>\n
OnePlus 3 is a unibody smartphone sliced from a single block of aluminum. It has a toughened Gorilla Glass on the front with a neatly factory- fitted screen protector. With a gently curving rear at the top and bottom of the handset, the OnePlus 3 can comfortably get a unanimous draw decision in a beauty contest against iPhone 6S, Samsung Galaxy S7, HTC 10 or LG G5.<\/p>\n
So much about its beauty; what about the damsel\u2019s character? There is a lot. OnePlus 3 is a monster; it is propelled by Snapdragon 820 processor and a whopping 6 GB of RAM is installed.<\/p>\n
It is imbued with a 16MP rear camera and 8MP front snapper.<\/p>\n
Noticeably, those megapixels on the cameras fall short of what you would expect from other flagship phones. The truth of the matter is that anything beyond this starts to suffer from the diminishing marginal returns penalties.<\/p>\n
The phone uses Fingerprint recognition technology. The FingerPrint scanner is fast; recognizes your digits and unlocking the OnePlus 3 within mere 0.3 seconds. This is quicker than Apple\u2019s Touch ID.<\/p>\n
OnePlus 3 comes with a 3000mAh fast charging battery and can handle two SIM cards. Along the left side of the 7.35mm thick lie the volume rocker and notification slider. The notification slider drifts into three positions: all notifications, priority notifications and silent.<\/p>\n
This means that you can hurriedly set the phone to silent in a meeting room without waking it up from a slumber.<\/p>\n
One Plus 3 has its lows. It has only 64GB internal memory and no expansion Micro SD slot. Every time Carl Pei is quarried about this, he is quick to point out that it is not an omission but a choice. The thinking is that if you have 64 GB of memory on your phone that is more than adequate. After all, are we not living in world that has more memory available in the cloud?<\/p>\n
The screens resolution is full HD and not QHD. You need extraordinary sharp eyes to differentiate HD from QHD phone screen quality. The question that OnePlus is asking here is that why spent money on something nobody will ever need?<\/p>\n
OnePlus 3\u2019s simplicity is as alluring as that of Apple iPhone but its curved rear makes the iPhone\u2019s flat back shy. It is a large premium handset that sits naturally in the palm as though they palm was created only for it.<\/p>\n
And did I tell you that the OnePlus 3 is yours to behold at half the price of an iPhone 6S or Samsung Galaxy 7S?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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