Display

The OnePlus 3 comes with a 5.5-inch AMOLED brandish with a resolution of 1920 x 1080, which equates to a pixel density of 401 PPI. This is another flagship that hasn't progressed to using a 1440p display, which isn't a significant effect. 1440p does provide a slight upgrade in sharpness and clarity in general use, however the biggest gains can be seen in virtual reality. Without a strong VR ecosystem similar Samsung with their Gear VR, I'grand not concerned about the OnePlus 3's performance in this employ case.

With maximum brightness of merely 420 nits at 100% white, this falls behind the top AMOLEDs and LCDs. Yet, the boilerplate moving-picture show level of AMOLEDs tends to be well above the base 100% white brightness level, so it competes reasonably well with other LCDs that produce 500 nits in side-by-side tests. This leads to good outdoor operation, and viewing angles are fantastic like about AMOLEDs.

Colour performance from the display on its default settings is really poor. AnandTech has a corking analysis of why this is the example – it involves OnePlus' strange decision to target the NTSC color infinite rather than sRGB – which I won't elaborate on hither. This results in an oversaturated and inaccurate display beyond the board, with default white remainder that'southward 'common cold' due to accented blues. If you like having colors blown out and oversaturated, the OnePlus 3'due south display won't bother y'all, but it'south quite pronounced compared to other high-finish handsets.

There is an sRGB way that can be enabled from within the programmer settings. I typically merely recommend enabling this setting if you're a creative professional that demands color accuracy, because it tin create an unpleasing dulled expect in comparison to what were oversaturated visuals. The setting is quite well hidden too, so it'southward clear OnePlus actually doesn't want yous to use it.

When you exercise switch on the sRGB way, color performance improves dramatically. I didn't run into every bit good performance as AnandTech's unit of measurement in this fashion, which is due to natural variance in displays, but it's certainly an improvement over the default display manner.

If a visitor really wants to include an oversaturated display, ideally I'd like to see default colour performance that sits somewhere between what OnePlus has included and perfect sRGB accuracy.

The size of the OnePlus 3'south display, at 5.v-inches, is no unlike from its predecessor and it offers a not bad balance between screen real estate and one-handed apply. Those with small hands will struggle to use the screen with equally much ease as smaller smartphones, particularly the corners, only I institute it easier to hold than my larger Nexus 6P. For watching videos and playing games, the actress screen expanse makes for a better experience than smaller handsets like the Galaxy S7 or LG G5.