OnePlus 3T

After promising myself I'd stay with my Nexus 6 I caved and ordered one. Arrived earlier today. Lovely looking thing, a lot lighter and is clearly faster than my Nexus. Happy with it :)

Just got to research a decent flip case and spare USB cables now..
 
Can anyone recommend a protective case for the 3T? The standard ones look nice but they are just clip ons, I want one that protects the sides properly but isnt too bulky.

Ideas / Photos?
 
Received today, so far *touch wood lest something happens!* so brilliant. I'm not disappointed coming from my 6P as I was afraid I might be. Screen is fine, don't see the "omg pentile at 1080p" fuss. Camera is fine, does suck in low light by *default* but HQ mode sorts that or manual 400ISO@1/3s i.e. software issue. Admittedly not taken many shots but that's my experience so far. Speaker is quite good, alright it's not the awesomesauce stereo front firing brilliance from the 6P (what is?) but as bottom firing speakers go I've heard far worse. Those were my main concerns. Meanwhile on the plus side boy does it fly! SO fast.

No, it doesn't have Wifi Calling on EE. If it ever gets it, I'll be one of the first on board.
But yes, it does have VoLTE and yes I've tried it in a call to 150 and it said "HD" on the call screen and stayed on 4G.

Right now, my relationship with it is positive enough that I've opened the non-returnable-if-opened rear case and pulled the instruction label off the back.

Yes, the touch latency is a thing. No, I don't think I would've noticed it if no one had made a fuss about it. It's not an issue 99% of the time as it only seems to manifest itself when you're dragging things around, and not "really an issue IMO" the other 1% either. Games seem alright still (it's mostly taps and small movements after all), the UI seems snappy as heck still, the only times I've spotted it so far are dragging icons around and panning the map in my game of pastel equines. It feels like a similar effect to inertial scrolling, and I'd have assumed it was by design if there wasn't the fuss.

I do wish the UI was smaller. Hopefully Nougat adds that option.
 
I wanted to wait until 2017 to see what phones are coming out as 2016 was fairly mediocre but the battery in my Nexus 5 is so weak I caved and went for a 3T, I would have gotten the cheaper 3 if they were ever in stock though.

I've been meaning to do something about 3 as they bumped their prices a while back so I also snagged a new sim from ID, 4gb for £10 per month seems like a pretty good deal to me.
 
Worth telling three you want a pac as they offered me 4gb with unlimited everything for £10. Was quite impressed but it was moving house to somewhere with poor 4g coverage that had made me want out :(
 
loltim said:
I don't really notice it when scrolling tbh, it's more noticeable in multi-touch scenarios like typing.
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Surely typing is more of a tapping gesture, and not swiping and hence there is no lag? Please explain as this latency thing is a deal breaker for me, as it gives the impression of unresponsiveness.
 
Well I've had my 3T for a few days now.

Coming from the HTC One M8 it's a nice upgrade, only thing I miss from the HTC is Blinkfeed.

The fingerprint reader is quick, phone is very responsive and camera is a huge upgrade. Speaker is pants compared to the HTC though.

Any suggestions on what news reader I can use which looks a bit like Blinkfeed? Ideally where I can just select websites that I want news from.
 
victorzk said:
Surely typing is more of a tapping gesture, and not swiping and hence there is no lag? Please explain as this latency thing is a deal breaker for me, as it gives the impression of unresponsiveness.
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A lot of people swipe on the keyboard to type nowadays. Swiftkey and the built in Google keyboard both support it. Works very well, it's surprising how well it knows what word you're typing just from gliding your finger around.

Touch latency means that the 'line' that follows your finger around might lag behind ever so slightly.

I've not found that it's affected the responsive feel of the device at all. When you tap things they immediately open. When you do pretty much any normal operation like pulling notifications, swiping between screens etc it's great. It only seems to apply to how fast things follow your finger when you're quickly dragging something around, and most people only noticed now that someone mentioned it and said how to check.
This demonstrates the effect well:
See how even at 50ms, which is considered normal on smartphones, it still lags behind a little. So I wouldn't worry too much. It just gives 'quickly dragging something around' a bit of an elastic feel.
 
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