DESIGN
The OnePlus 3 offers an upgrade once again, this time by way of a metal and glass design. It's available in "Graphite" – a muted grey – and its 7.4mm-thick aluminium frame makes this handset a delight to both look at and hold.
A 5.5-inch phone may still not be for everyone, but the OnePlus 3 is among the more manageable phones with such a screen size. The finish is excellent too: the aluminium rear is anodised sports the same type of non-shiny look you’ll find on an iPhone.
The result is pleasing. The metal chassis signals the evolution of OnePlus brand from a slightly shaky Chinese startup to a brand that knows what it's doing, and knows what people want. It doesn't break any new ground in terms of looks, with flashes of iPhone, HTC and Samsung, but it's great to eyeball and hold in the hand.
Software
If you spent only a few minutes with a OnePlus phone, you'd be forgiven for thinking it ran a stock build of Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow. Well, not quite. The OnePlus 3 again runs OxygenOS, a modified version of Android I like to refer to as "stock plus"; there are plenty of additional features that don't cross the line into bloat. The overall effect is more subtle than other companies' approaches, and I think it's more valuable as a result.
screen
The OnePlus 3 is 5.5 inches across and has a resolution of 1,920 x 1,080 pixels, resulting in pixel density of 401ppi.
Camera
Smartphone makers agonize over their cameras, and with good reason -- chances are it's going to get plenty of use, and it's easy to let people down. OnePlus was limited by cost, so it went with a 16-megapixel sensor with an f/2.0 aperture lens from Sony, and you know what? It's perfectly adequate. Colors were bright and mostly well saturated (they occasionally came out a little weak), with a more than respectable amount of detail. You can get a little more nuance out of shots if you use an included HD mode, or output them as unprocessed RAW files.
Colour is great, photos offer excellent sharpness and superb contrast, and the OnePlus 3 is reliable at judging exposure. Even with very tricky lighting – when you're facing towards a bright-but-cloudy scene, for example – the phone almost never suffers from major overexposure.
Video-capture options are 720p, 1080p and 4K. Unusually, the footage stabilisation seems to rely on OIS, rather than cropping into the image and using software. I’m not a huge video-shooter, but this means you miss out on the real steadicam-like vibe some phone footage offers.
Performance and battery life
The OnePlus 3 is absolutely packed full of power. Qualcomm's top of the range Snapdragon 820 processor, which is also found in the HTC 10, LG G5 and the American variant of the Galaxy S7, is joined by a simply huge 6GB of RAM.
NFC, however, makes a welcome return on the OnePlus 3 after being surprisingly left out of the OnePlus 2 – which will please fans of the contactless technology, especially now that Android Pay is landing in more countries. There is something futuristic about paying with your smartphone, and it still draws confused looks from shop assistants.
the OnePlus lasted 17hrs 25mins playing a 720p MP4 movie on loop – this is even longer than the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge managed.
SOUND QUALITY
The OnePlus 3 has an innocuous-looking speaker. It sits on the bottom of the phone, and the single grille denotes that it’s a single-driver affair.
PRICE
For some context, the 32GB Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge costs £639 SIM-fr
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