The iPhone has a higher clockrate of... 0.03Ghz. Whoop dee doo. The OnePlus 3 is an actual quadcore. Y'know. Four cores. All at the same power. Now looking at iPhone 7 benchmark scores on Geekbench, they are all consistently at 5500 or the high 2000s, while the OnePlus3 manages to stay around the high 3000s/4000s. I don't know a damn thing about phone benchmarking so I may be wrong, but it looks to me like it's a crap shoot as to whether or not your demanding apps make it to a high priority core. I'd rather accept a slightly slower but consistently pretty high speed over faster speeds sometimes when my high power cores decide I'm worthy. But fine, let's give this one to the iPhone.
The OnePlus 3 has 64 GB of internal storage. The iPhone starts at 32GB. Yeah, I know you can go up to 128 for a RIDICULOUS price increase. You could buy two OnePlus 3s, have 128GB combined, and still have more money than if you bought a 128GB iPhone. Depending on how deep your pockets are, this is either a win for the OnePlus 3 or iPhone, so +1 to either the iPhone or OnePlus 3 depending on if you have money to burn or not.
The OnePlus 3 has 6GB of RAM. The iPhone has... half of that. As someone who just upgraded their desktop to 16GB of RAM, I can tell you first hand, you can have the world's best CPU, GPU, whatever, but if you're running out of RAM, you're still going to lag horrendously. OnePlus 3 wins.
The OnePlus 3 has a headphone jack. No, seriously. Tell me you never use the headphone jack on your phone. It's an important feature. OnePlus 3 wins.
Cameras are a bit of a trade-off. The OnePlus 3 has higher resolution but the iPhone has "dual rear facing cameras for enhanced optical zoom" whatever that means. I'm going to assume that most people would pick higher quality pictures over the ability to zoom in more, so I'll count this as a win for the OnePlus 3.
3D touch is a bit of an iffy decision. Android doesn't support it. iPhone does. Personally I hate the damn thing with a burning passion. A tap is a tap. I don't want different results based on how hard I push. If you like it, consider it a +1 for iPhone. If you hate it, +1 for OnePlus 3.
Last, let's talk about software. Android is OBJECTIVELY superior to iOS. It allows for greater customization, more control, and has more features. Most of the stuff you can do on a droid you have to jailbreak your iPhone and kill your warranty to achieve. Considering the fact that back when I had an iPhone, I felt like it was a useless brick any time it wasn't jailbroken, I'll say +1 for the OnePlus 3.
At the end of the day, it's at best 4/3 if you have money to burn and love 3D touch, or 6/1 for the OnePlus 3 if you like to keep things simple and don't have the cash for a memory upgrade. And you can get a OnePlus 3 for a little over half of the iPhone's price. A processor with two hyper fast cores doesn't make up for any of the other shortcomings of the phone, and it's definitely not enough to justify -shudder- iOS. |