I’ve always been a fan of Android, more like a fanboi. Going from a Galaxy Fit to a Moto G (1st Gen) to a Yureka then to a OnePlus 3 and then to finally be at OnePlus 6T, it’s been an interesting journey since 2011. But the last transition from a 3 to a 6T seemed like the smallest upgrade I’ve experienced throughout my android journey. Yeah I know, I know! 6T is just an incremental update to 6 and is far far better than OP3 but just hear me out.

OnePlus 3 was just the perfect phone for me, for a college student. It had everything you asked for. A day of battery life in just under 40mins was the probably the best feature for me. Going to an OP3 from Yureka was such a huge thing to experience. It meant no shitty battery life, no unnecessary overheating and finally something premium. Don’t get me wrong, Yureka was extremely promising before it’s launch but lost all its charm right after release. It was supposed to be like the Poco F1, a so-called budget phone with great specs but Yureka couldn’t deliver it as expected. Yureka was quite frankly the worst phone I have used and probably had one of the best developments in the community going for it. All these just made the OP3 so freaking good, it might just have been a bit of overkill. OP3 was the true flagship killer and the MVP of 2016, boasting an SD820 processor with 6 gigs of ram. It was just so fluid and so smooth.

Yet after 2 years here we are, I’ve upgraded to a 6T just because I felt like upgrading and not because the OP3 was underperforming. I wasn’t really into mobile gaming but I did play a few games here and there. OP3 handled everything I threw at it like a champ, just anything, it was just built like a tank. But lately, I started facing minor issues like the low earpiece volumes, ghost touches etc, these felt like a reason to upgrade. I was really excited for the 6T with all the hype going on, I was genuinely expecting something similar to what I had experienced from my previous switch between phones. And honestly it didn’t live up to that expectation but I wasn’t disappointed. The upgrade was totally worth but OP3 was the culprit here. OP 6T felt like I was using OP3 just with a bigger screen and bigger battery. The extra processing power of the 6T didn’t really matter for day to day usage, at least for my use. Yes, 6T even has an in-display fingerprint scanner, but it hardly mattered because OnePlus’s face unlock is so fast.

To conclude 6T is a great phone, MVP of 2018 but OP3, in my opinion, is the best phone produced by OnePlus. It is even slimmer and lighter than the 6T. But it’s a big ‘No’ if I had to downgrade to an OP3.