According to reviews, the OnePlus 3 selling at $399 is an important step forward for the company.
Carl Pei is the 26-year-old co-founder of the Chinese company called OnePlus. According to TechCrunch, the first OnePlus phone was announced in April 2014, just five months after launching the company resulted through the partnership of OnePlus with Cyanogen. Since then, the upstart Chinese handset manufacturer company's story has been one of hardware successes.
In just over two years, the OnePlus 3 is the company's fourth smartphone. With the mobile device's release, the company drops its invite system. This has been a hardware take on public betas used by the Chinese company startup to launch applications like Gmail.
The invite system has served to both develop a kind of scarcity and to engage consumer interest. As a result, both the invites and phones have become popular auction items on sites like eBay.
The company's latest flagship phone, the OnePlus 3, is scheduled to arrive on the market in less than a week. Pei said that this year, the company is using a different marketing approach. He added that as expectations change and the company grows, at this point in the company's history they cannot sell anymore on an invite system.
The new phone is available for orders direct from OnePlus. The OnePlus 3 aims to be the first affordable phone that is as great as the high-priced flagships from HTC or Samsung.
The flagship phone from OnePlus comes with everything users could only expect from high-end Android phones. The mobile device features premium design, fast processor, great display, quick charging and capable camera, but sells unblocked for just $399. At this price, it costs around $300 less than you would pay for a HTC 10 or Samsung Galaxy S7 with similar specs and features.
According to the Verge, the OnePlus 3 is a well-built device, with a good proportions, aluminum finish, unibody and tight tolerances. The device is thin and comfortable to hold. The OnePlus 3's design is attractive and functional, even if it is far from being original.
The OnePlus 3 comes with a fingerprint scanner that is fast and reliable and a 5.5-inch AMOLED 1080p display at 401ppi that is bright, vibrant and easy to see outdoors.
The OnePlus 3 comes with an NFC chip that works for anything that supports NFC, including accessories that have tap-to-pair features and Android Pay. The phone is powered by a Snapdragon 820 processor and comes with 6 GB of RAM 64 GB of storage. It also supports expansion through microSD.
The phone offers quick charging called Dash Charging and also charges through a USB Type-C port. The 3,000mAh battery is good enough to keep the device going for a full day of heavy use.
