Review: OnePlus 3 is a flagship phone for careful spenders
The OnePlus 3 smartphone raises two difficult questions: Just what is a flagship product? And why should you care?
Flagship phones -- the ones with the fastest processors, best screens and slimmest profiles -- tend to cost about $800 and often still tie you to carriers. The OnePlus 3 costs just $399 (vendor price) and packs tech that's as powerful as any of them. It gets you 95% of the way to a deluxe smartphone for half the price. And it comes unlocked and without bloatware.
Physically, the phone isn't particularly appealing. It comes in gray (gold is promised Real Soon Now). It's 6 x 3 x 0.25 in. and weighs 5.5 oz. That's about a quarter-inch taller and wider than the Samsung Galaxy S7 and the HTC 10, and the same width but a quarter-inch shorter than the iPhone 6S Plus. (Thicknesses differ by a matter of a millimeter or two.)
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