Oneplus 3 invites and chatter

[AdvocatusD]

Hi chaps, how many fingerprints can you put into the fingerprint scanner? Before I set it up, would be good to know so that I can put in my most "used" fingers first!

[Rick101]

Rick101 said:

RedWhiteMonkey said:

All depends what you call light-moderate use. For me, today I listened to about three hours of podcasts, did a bit of surfing and made some phone calls, still have 71% left. Not quite sure what the people who are saying it has a crap battery are actually doing with it.

Just general use throughout the day. Nothing too taxing but a fair bit of screen on time.
I am certainly under 40% and curtailing use by the end of most days.

Just had an update this morning after overnight charge. 100% down to 85% in 30 min.

Now at 39%.

[cb31]

Turquoise said:

Shipping issues aside, how is everyone finding the user exerience? Is the build quality up to scratch? Screen resolution not a problem? Any info will be useful.

Loving mine, build quality seems great as does the screen. I think people love to find issues, 1080p on my 43 inch plasma looks ok so I cannot believe 1080p on a 5 inch screen could possibly be described as lacking clarity. The colour also looks good to me so I haven't bother enabling the accurate sRGB mode. Maybe with VR it would be an issue but I have no interest in that. To me 1080p is the sweet spot, any higher is just a battery drain for not much advantage. The only disadvantage is the lack of outright brightness due to the OLED screen, it isn't eye burningly bright like some displays but on the plus side the blacks indoors are amazing.

Coming from a Nexus 5 the battery to me is amazing, lasts a day easily. Camera is also better than the nexus but doesn't appear as good as a Samsung S7, especially in low light.

Overall very happy, the price is a great bonus.

[Turquoise]

Nice one. Thanks.

[RedWhiteMonkey]

AdvocatusD said:

Hi chaps, how many fingerprints can you put into the fingerprint scanner? Before I set it up, would be good to know so that I can put in my most "used" fingers first!

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[PHuzzy]

Mine finally arrived today, so far I've found it to be fantastic.
The dash charge is insane, the speed of the phone opening Web pages and apps is also pretty amazing.
I've turned off the auto brightness as it has a mind of it's own and is pretty crap.
The vibration when typing is also far too 'loud' but overall I'm impressed and would be even if it were £500 but at £309 it's exceptional value.

Hopefully it turns out to be reliable because I don't fancy dealing with OnePlus after the terrible customer service so far.

[chrisxr2]

Loving mine a week in. Cannot get the 4g/lte to work with three though.

[Turquoise]

I will probably order a couple of giff gaff nano sims to run mine. Anyone on giff gaff? No problems with it on there? 4G ok with it?

[P4ulB]

Rick101 said:

Rick101 said:

RedWhiteMonkey said:

All depends what you call light-moderate use. For me, today I listened to about three hours of podcasts, did a bit of surfing and made some phone calls, still have 71% left. Not quite sure what the people who are saying it has a crap battery are actually doing with it.

Just general use throughout the day. Nothing too taxing but a fair bit of screen on time.
I am certainly under 40% and curtailing use by the end of most days.

Just had an update this morning after overnight charge. 100% down to 85% in 30 min.

Now at 39%.

Read something interesting this morning about the fingerprint scanner constantly trying to scan and thus draining the battery if the phone is in your pocket with the scanner facing your leg.

Might not be related to your battery drain, but apparently they are working on a fix.

[PHuzzy]

PHuzzy said:

Mine finally arrived today, so far I've found it to be fantastic.
The dash charge is insane, the speed of the phone opening Web pages and apps is also pretty amazing.
I've turned off the auto brightness as it has a mind of it's own and is pretty crap.
The vibration when typing is also far too 'loud' but overall I'm impressed and would be even if it were £500 but at £309 it's exceptional value.

Hopefully it turns out to be reliable because I don't fancy dealing with OnePlus after the terrible customer service so far.

Need to change my mind on the typing vibration, found the advanced settings earlier and have reduced it, so much better now.
Just wish android had the same emojis that iOS has (sad, I know) but this isn't a phone related thing.

[AdvocatusD]

Is anyone else having problems with the proximity sensor? I've enabled it, but when I wave my hand over it, nothing happens! Doesn't appear to be working.

Very annoying, because coming for a Moto X, I really loved that feature.

[cb31]

Turquoise said:

I will probably order a couple of giff gaff nano sims to run mine. Anyone on giff gaff? No problems with it on there? 4G ok with it?

Fine on mine, no issues apart from 4G generally slow on giffgaff, not a phone issue

[Turquoise]

cb31 said:

Turquoise said:

I will probably order a couple of giff gaff nano sims to run mine. Anyone on giff gaff? No problems with it on there? 4G ok with it?

Fine on mine, no issues apart from 4G generally slow on giffgaff, not a phone issue

Really? That's a bit of a concern. How bad is it?

[leglessAlex]

Turquoise said:

cb31 said:

Turquoise said:

I will probably order a couple of giff gaff nano sims to run mine. Anyone on giff gaff? No problems with it on there? 4G ok with it?

Fine on mine, no issues apart from 4G generally slow on giffgaff, not a phone issue

Really? That's a bit of a concern. How bad is it?

Well, I just left them to go to O2, them and Giffgaff being the only two that give me signal in a lot of my flat.

I was getting anywhere from 2-10mb/s at peak times, and considering that was the speed I was getting on my 3G goodybag I previously had with them I was deeply unimpressed that they had forced me off 3G and onto 4G. More expensive for the 4G too, with less data.

This was in SW London.

[Salgar]

leglessAlex said:

Turquoise said:

cb31 said:

Turquoise said:

I will probably order a couple of giff gaff nano sims to run mine. Anyone on giff gaff? No problems with it on there? 4G ok with it?

Fine on mine, no issues apart from 4G generally slow on giffgaff, not a phone issue

Really? That's a bit of a concern. How bad is it?

Well, I just left them to go to O2, them and Giffgaff being the only two that give me signal in a lot of my flat.

I was getting anywhere from 2-10mb/s at peak times, and considering that was the speed I was getting on my 3G goodybag I previously had with them I was deeply unimpressed that they had forced me off 3G and onto 4G. More expensive for the 4G too, with less data.

This was in SW London.

You left giffgaff to go with O2? You realise it's the same network and you'll get the same speed?

[Zato]

Won't be the same speed. I was with Giffgaff and had almost 0 speed whilst O2 users standing next to me were fine. Giffgaff seem to be heavily throttled. Had to leave in the end as a it was impossible to use more than a few hundred mb a month.

[leglessAlex]

Zato said:

Won't be the same speed. I was with Giffgaff and had almost 0 speed whilst O2 users standing next to me were fine. Giffgaff seem to be heavily throttled. Had to leave in the end as a it was impossible to use more than a few hundred mb a month.

Yup, this. It uses the same network but with very different restrictions, O2 should be considerably faster.

[Rick101]

Can't say I've had any problems on Giffgaff

[Kinky]

Anyone going to the OnePlus 3 tour event in London on Sunday?

If so, I'll be there, so come say hello

[Turquoise]

White/Soft Gold version on sale on August 1st.