OnePlus 3T: The China-based 'Flagship Killer' phone.

OnePlus is a China-based company. It was founded on 16 December 2013 by the former vice president of Oppo named Pete Lau. One plus’s main motto is to build high-end devices with a lower price than other phones in its class. One plus One was the first device launched by the company and touted as “2014 flagship killer”.

 One plus One had great features and in some cases even better than other flagship phones of that year, the main plus point was the lower price. Delivering devices packed with great features at such nominal price is indeed appreciable!

One plus follows the path of Apple and works on a single device at a time. They put their all effort and attention to single device and that’s their success mantra.

One plus is coming again this year with power packed device named One Plus5.

OnePlus 5

OnePlus 5 is the successor of OnePlus 3T and will launch this calendar year. It was earlier named as One Plus 4 but according to Chinese myths number four is considered unlucky and company decided to ditch this name.

According to some reports, One plus 5 will sport dual-edge curved display, taking hints from Samsung’s Galaxy S7 Edge. Dual-edge curved display will be the highlight of this phone along with 16-megapixel front camera or selfie shooter. Other rumoured details for One Plus 5 include a 23-megapixel rear camera and come in two variants of 6 and 8 GB RAM powered by 821 snapdragon processor or may wait for the snapdragon 835 processor to become available. 

The device will have a storage capacity of 256 GB and come with a ceramic body like Xiaomi Mi Mix. We are expecting that One Plus 5 may launch with the latest android version Nougat.

Above data are not actual as company has not announced anything about this device, these are the rumoured details of the One plus 5.

One Plus 3T

One plus 3T stands on the motto of the company. It is a power packed device available at around $400. 

What I like the most in this device is the Dash Charging feature which is one of the most advanced charging technology available in the market. It is faster safer and cooler than most of the other charging technology. Charging speed remains consistent even while gaming. The company claims that this technology can give enough power for day long use in just half an hour charging.

One plus 3T has the most refined version of OxygenOS yet. This OS gives you some customizable options and it is lighter and faster compare to its predecessor.

One Plus 3T’s camera is quite promising and gives you a sharp and crisp picture. It has a 16-megapixel rear camera with noise reduction and stabilisation technologies.

It is sleek and stylish and has an all-metal body with gun metal colour which enhanced its look further.

One Plus 3T is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon processor 821 which clocks up to the speed of 2.35 GHz with 6GB of RAM which makes multitasking smoother. It has the internal storage of 128GB, which enables you to store huge amount of data.

One plus 3T has a 5.5 inches Optic AMOLED capacitive touch screen with the pixel density of 401ppi. It gets the power from 3400mAh battery with fast charging technology, which can charge your device up to 60% in just 30minutes.

Positives and Negatives of One Plus 3T

Well! I would love to start with positive points of 3T. What so good about this device, the first thing that comes to my mind is its battery performance and fast charging technology. When I first get this phone I charged it for approx 40mins and the battery stayed for all day long. My both SIMs were on, one of them was a 4G SIM and my data was on all day, I watched YouTube videos, played games, clicked few photos and at the end of the day my had still some juice left, isn’t it amazing?

The new gun metal colour gives this device a premium look, this phone has the best camera at this price offering, it is quick, gives accurate colour and quick to focus. I am very impressed with the low light performance as well.

Multi-tasking is very smooth on this device, apps and games open fast. If you have opened 15 or 16 apps at a time but it didn’t lag a bit switching between the apps are really smooth.

Negative aspects of One Plus 3T

The first problem that I faced was a heating problem. The device gets a bit warm near the camera when you play games. The display quality of this phone is not up to the mark despite having 5.5 inch AMOLED display. If you look at Samsung’s phones with this same display quality they are better than 3T.

You can’t upgrade the storage as the device has no memory slot.

The One Plus 3T also have some software problems, sometimes it may call someone from your contact automatically when the phone is in the pocket in spite of having the pocket mode on.

 Some 3T users have complained about the automatic rebooting which end after the factory reset of the device in result you lose all you data. One Plus 3T is the upgrade version of One Plus 3 but nothing much has changed and also bit costlier than the older one. OnePlus 3T price in India is around 30k for 64GB variant and OnePlus 3T price for 128GB variant is around 35k in rupees.

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