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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Harry_Wild - Thursday, November 20, 2014 - link
I saw many interviews were Android App developers were ask what personal phone they are using responded shyly - "iPhone #*". So, that explains many things here!grayson_carr - Thursday, November 20, 2014 - link
I am an iOS developer and my current phone of choice is the Nexus 5.Conficio - Friday, November 21, 2014 - link
Care to link to at least three of these "interviews"coburn_c - Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - link
Why do your custom screen and battery tests never line up with gsmarena? Their screen results always have different white brightness levels then yours, and their battery tests are always more in line with synthetic scores than yours. They put the contrast of this things screen at 800:1 and the battery life below the G3.2kfire - Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - link
Re: battery, GSMArena uses 50% instead of a fixed luminance.Cinnabuns - Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - link
Just to add to what 2kfire pointed out, the author states:"200 nits on a phone can be as low as 50% and as high as 90%, so setting a standardized brightness percentage would not be an effective method of controlling for display brightness."
I would not trust GSMArena's battery tests as they do not understand how to perform a controlled test.
coburn_c - Thursday, November 20, 2014 - link
Their test was in-line with what the synthetic said here and in line with the common sense of less throttling and less software optimization don't make for more battery life.Master_Sigma - Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - link
Very pleased to see Anandtech coming around to reviewing this phone. While I disagree with the opinion that too many options are a negative, especially given the target audience for this device, I pretty much agree with the assessment of the hardware and software.FreakTM - Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - link
I think the opinion was more towards the fact that the options were causing some sacrifice on the user-friendliness of the experience, which I think is a fair opinion. Many options, good; many options presented in a confusing way, bad.mrex - Wednesday, November 26, 2014 - link
Better to have options than not having them. You dont need to use them if you dont want to, but if they dont exist at all, you could only dream about them... the phone is very user friendly, imo.