As someone who used Nexus devices before jumping over, I have been extremely happy with One Plus. It has a great stock feel with additional enhancements that I find beneficial and not useless. I have even had very good experiences with their customer service as well. I don't know where the One Plus hate comes from as I have yet to experience anything bad. I definitely enjoyed the 1+3 over the HTC 10 and I had both. As for the dialer, it doesn't have the google dialer but it looks a lot like it and for me it works great.
After the Pixel prices were confirmed today, I immediately placed an order for a OP3!
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As someone who used Nexus devices before jumping over, I have been extremely happy with One Plus. It has a great stock feel with additional enhancements that I find beneficial and not useless. I have even had very good experiences with their customer service as well. I don't know where the One Plus hate comes from as I have yet to experience anything bad. I definitely enjoyed the 1+3 over the HTC 10 and I had both. As for the dialer, it doesn't have the google dialer but it looks a lot like it and for me it works great.
I have an Axon 7 coming in tomorrow to try out next. So far my favorite phone of the year has been the One Plus 3 so I am looking forward to seeing how it compares.
Hmmm...I think its an upgrade but you do lose out on the front facing speakers and a better display. 1+3 beats it everywhere else imo.
So maybe not an upgrade that is worth it, unless I could sell my 6P to offset the cost and pay about $100 out of pocket for OP3?
Maybe it's best to ride with the 6P (mine still runs great) and see what comes out early next year. The rumored specs for the OP4 sound amazing!
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That certainly sounds like a good plan to me. I had a few minutes to play with a 6P at BestBuy the other day. It was running Nougat and I really liked it a lot. It was tempting, but didn't make sense to me to spend more on a year old device when I can buy a current year device for less.
I'd be curious to read the OP4 rumored specs. Where did you find that discussion?
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I ordered on September 18 and it still hasn't shipped. I'm in the USA. I ordered the soft gold. I'm only going to wait til Friday. If not shipped by then, I'm going with the ZTE Axon 7. This is ridiculous for a phone that most have never heard of. 
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There are things I like about the Axon 7, but there are some things I prefer about the OP3 that trump the ZTE. But this is a close race between these two phones. Since I likely have time before my OP3 ships, I may try to find the Axon 7 locally and give it a personal check out. Just to satisfy my curiosity.
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How comfortable are you with root and custom software?
To be honest one of my big bugbears with Google is the lack of dark UI support. Damn them.
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Never have rooted before... so I have no comfort zone there. I'm surprised a dark theme is not a standard option.
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Yeah, it's one of the reasons I stopped buying Nexus phones. Oneplus have done what they can with the dark theme, but there's some things that require OS level... Layers/substratum (which require root) can do a lot, though they're still not perfect.
Probably because people typically aren't in the dialer for very long is why they don't bother to skin it. However, I am sure there are some apps from the google play story you can find that would give you a dark theme dialer.
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I have tried setting numerous dialers as the default on my GS4 but find that certain actions always bring up the stock dialer, so I just eventually go back to the stock dialer.
On the off-chance that someone comes down here and actually reads this, her's the lowdown:
I'm an owner of the OP3. You can get them extremely easily in India.
The price point is superb for the performance and features.
The performance is just top of the charts. And it stays relatively cool through World Of Tanks Blitz, whereas my previous phone, the Xiaomi Mi3 felt like it might start melting any moment after a couple of minutes.
The biggest draw is the Dash Charge. Example: I woke up late, and hadn't put the phone to charge the previous night. Battery at 48%. Not gonna be enough for the day. Got ready in about 20 minutes after plugging the phone. Went to it, and it had charged to 94%. The charger slows down at 80% and reverts to slower charge, because that's how the physics of Li-Ion batteries work. So yeah, you won't last really long on a single charge, but the charger ensures that you can top up in a flash.
The 6 GB of RAM is a little excessive. The phone can't really make use of it anyway, and no matter what you read online or what people say, you will never get the complete benefit of it.
The lack of expandable storage hurts if your phone is the only computing device on hand like me and you use it for heavy downloads, but that's just me.
The ergonomics are excellent, and though it feels like you might cut your hand on the edges, you won't. Buy a good bumper case if your heart breaks at the sight of the slightest damage to your device. The metal finish can dented and bumped easily even if you drop it just one foot.
The display is adequate, though it could've been brighter. It suffers in sunlight a little. The supplied screen guard feels a little off, because it doesn't cover the edges and you're left with a little gap in the screen; I didn't really get why they did that....
The camera is okay, but the software isn't like Xiaomi or Samsung when it comes to processing, so photos don't really have an oomph in them. But they're solid and a little tweaking in an editor will help them. Detail resolved is excellent.
The software is okay, but it doesn't really break boundaries in capability. It's close to stock android. But I've been used to Xiaomi's MIUI so it must be that speaking.
What else? Wi-Fi performance seems off sometimes, but no one else has complained. The software can be modded without voiding your warranty, which is nice.
If there's anything else you wanna know, reply here.
I'm an owner of the OP3. You can get them extremely easily in India.
The price point is superb for the performance and features.
The performance is just top of the charts. And it stays relatively cool through World Of Tanks Blitz, whereas my previous phone, the Xiaomi Mi3 felt like it might start melting any moment after a couple of minutes.
The biggest draw is the Dash Charge. Example: I woke up late, and hadn't put the phone to charge the previous night. Battery at 48%. Not gonna be enough for the day. Got ready in about 20 minutes after plugging the phone. Went to it, and it had charged to 94%. The charger slows down at 80% and reverts to slower charge, because that's how the physics of Li-Ion batteries work. So yeah, you won't last really long on a single charge, but the charger ensures that you can top up in a flash.
The 6 GB of RAM is a little excessive. The phone can't really make use of it anyway, and no matter what you read online or what people say, you will never get the complete benefit of it.
The lack of expandable storage hurts if your phone is the only computing device on hand like me and you use it for heavy downloads, but that's just me.
The ergonomics are excellent, and though it feels like you might cut your hand on the edges, you won't. Buy a good bumper case if your heart breaks at the sight of the slightest damage to your device. The metal finish can dented and bumped easily even if you drop it just one foot.
The display is adequate, though it could've been brighter. It suffers in sunlight a little. The supplied screen guard feels a little off, because it doesn't cover the edges and you're left with a little gap in the screen; I didn't really get why they did that....
The camera is okay, but the software isn't like Xiaomi or Samsung when it comes to processing, so photos don't really have an oomph in them. But they're solid and a little tweaking in an editor will help them. Detail resolved is excellent.
The software is okay, but it doesn't really break boundaries in capability. It's close to stock android. But I've been used to Xiaomi's MIUI so it must be that speaking.
What else? Wi-Fi performance seems off sometimes, but no one else has complained. The software can be modded without voiding your warranty, which is nice.
If there's anything else you wanna know, reply here.
Nice summary! I'm a OP3 owner too and can vouch for much of this.
Spot on about the DASH charge. Although, I do happen to get really good battery life to boot. Legitimate full day use on a charge without breaking a sweat (though it sounds like your usage pattern may be more battery intensive than mine). In my use, as long as I can manage to charge the OP3 for 15-30 mins/day I never have to worry about battery live day-to-day.
The point I like to make about the 6GB RAM is that I never (and I DO mean never) experience an app having to refresh itself, no matter how long I've had it open and in the background (I admittedly don't run big games, etc). Could they have achieved this with 4GB? Maybe. Don't care. As you put it, the performance is outstanding
Please correct me if I'm wrong as I'm no expert...but I am curious....I thought the OP3 RAM management was based on the number of apps it would allow to run in memory. IF that's the case, then could you not get the benefit of the 6GB RAM if you were running fewer, bigger apps at once?
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What makes you like the 1+3 better than the HTC 10? Did the 1+3 have better LTE reception and speeds than the HTV 10? Who is your carrier AT&T or T Mobile?
Just ordered one says it may be here by 10/30. Switching from a Microsoft Lumia 640. This will be my first android phone.
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You are going to have a little cultural shock going from windows to Android but it will be well worth it.
My carrier is T Mobile. LTE speeds were about equal on both phones. What I did not like about the HTC 10 was the screen and its polarization, no ambient display like the 1+3 had, and the sound was not THAT much better, I actually think the 1+3 has a very good and loud speaker. I even liked the camera more on the 1+3 than the 10, and I definitely like Oxygen OS more than Sense. I guess the only thing I actually liked the 10 more was its size as I do prefer a more "compact" phone. And the real reason that makes a frugal person like myself enjoy something, when I bought the 10 it was $599 so for $200 less, the 1+3 just felt better to me.
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