The OnePlus One Review
by Joshua Ho on November 19, 2014 8:00 AM EST- Posted in
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- OnePlus
CPU Performance
As SoC performance is still crucial for a good experience, there continues to be a need for good benchmarks of overall system performance, along with targeted benchmarks to better understand each aspect of the SoC. For the most part the Snapdragon 801 is a known quantity at this point, but it's worth going over again just to make sure that performance is as expected. In order to test this, we use a suite of browser benchmarks and Basemark OS II to get overall performance.
As one can see, the OnePlus One scores quite similarly to everything else on the market. This isn't really a surprise, as pretty much everyone is using the same SoC at this point.
Cheating
While for the most part we've seen an end to cheating in benchmarks, there are still a few remaining OEMs that seem to insist on continuing this behavior. Unfortunately, it seems that OnePlus is one of these OEMs. However it seems that this is limited to Antutu, which sees the rather simplistic behavior of hotplugging all cores at maximum frequency when the application is launched.
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Iseek1 - Friday, November 21, 2014 - link
@Joshua Ho a lot of people are amazed / confused over the battery test results, the incredible high numbers for screen on time and battery life in general per these tests, would you possibly be able to go into more detail as to how these tests are done?dragospascu - Saturday, November 22, 2014 - link
glad that my irk with benchmarking in balance mode was addressed ; also the size "issue" :)i have it for 2 months now and can't let it rest.....my nexus 7 is full of dust :)
i just hope they'll manage to ramp up production so all other manufacturers will be forced to reconsider their profit margins. i think everybody should cheer them up :)
shainawilliams1992 - Saturday, November 22, 2014 - link
OnePlus One is now on sale only at http://tinyurl.com/mrq34ostheduckofdeath - Saturday, November 22, 2014 - link
" While contrast with viewing angle changes isn't as good as AMOLED panels, I don't see any color shifting with viewing angle changes. This seems to remain an advantage of IPS panels for now."You know you're reading a review on iAnandtech when the writers tries to find every little scrap to be able to pretend LCD is on par with AMOLED in 2014.
Socius - Saturday, November 22, 2014 - link
IPS displays are actually superior to amoled with the exception of black levels and contrast...theduckofdeath - Thursday, November 27, 2014 - link
The extreme difference in dynamic range (by a factor of 1000 to 1) makes the theoretical minute differences in "colour accuracy" that Anandtech WRONGLY finds in their comparisons, completely irrelevant.Anandtech's flawed tests has often been openly criticized by professional display testers as being inaccurate. For instance by Displaymate, which all manufacturers use to test and calibrate their displays.
AnnonymousCoward - Saturday, November 22, 2014 - link
The color white is still better on LCD than OLED. And OLED phosphors age.theduckofdeath - Thursday, November 27, 2014 - link
I have never, ever had any issues with aging of AMOLED displays. I really think you need to update your sources. The absolute first generation of OLED had aging issues. That was 6-7 years ago.LCD displays age and bleach, too. My old laptop (which is around 4 years) with an LCD has issues showing the difference in low contrast areas, which is a big problem with all these modern/material themed sites and apps these days.
AnnonymousCoward - Friday, November 28, 2014 - link
> you need to update your sourcesMy source is myself! My 2.5 year old Samsung phone has faint spots all over that are marginally visible when the whole screen is a dark color.
pliablemoosethebanned - Saturday, November 22, 2014 - link
I've had a couple of OPO's, and thought they were a great phone, particularly when you factor in the price.