The OnePlus Ace 3 brings all its rivals to their knees with insane specs and a bonkers price tag

The OnePlus Ace 3 brings all its rivals to their knees with insane specs and a bonkers price tag،

You've all heard about and perhaps even purchased one of the best value 5G phones on the market for the holidays, but if you can resist that temptation in order to see what the new year will bring to the 'killer' scene flagships”, OnePlus offers a giant killer to consider at a price that is simply unbeatable.

This is a first for OnePlus' R-branded handsets, and looking at the Ace 3's undeniably premium design, decidedly impressive specs, and almost unreal Chinese pricing, we can't help but be thrilled with the call very judicious availability of the company.

How affordable is the Ace 3?

In short, very. Long, extremely. In detail, we're talking price tags equivalent to around $365 for an entry-level 256GB storage configuration with a respectable 12GB of RAM also on deck and around $420 when it comes to a variant 16 GB + 512 GB.

Then you have a top-of-the-line model with no less than 1TB of internal storage space paired with 16GB of memory at 3,499 yuan, which currently works out to around an incredibly reasonable $490.

Of course, China is a very… unique smartphone market, and if you think there's a chance the OnePlus 12R will cost you as little as $365 or even $400 in the US, then you might be disappointed.

What is clear (and extremely encouraging) is that the US equivalent of the OnePlus Ace 3 will cost significantly less than the “normal” one. OnePlus 12as well as last year's OnePlus 11, which was already quite aggressively priced compared to its direct competitors like Samsung's. Galaxy S23 PlusApples iPhone 15 Proor that of Google Pixel 8 Pronot to mention the S23 Ultra and iPhone 15 Pro Max.

How impressive will the OnePlus 12R be?

In short, very. Long story short… well, you get the idea. Or at least you'll get that after considering the rest of the Ace 3's mind-blowing specs, which should be mimicked to the letter by the 'international' 12R.

The most incredible thing about the OnePlus 12's slightly humbler sibling is how it packs a larger 5,500mAh battery into a 207-gram lighter body with an 8.8mm slimmer profile. This body is made from the same ultra-premium combination of glass and metal, and the design as a whole looks virtually unchanged here.

True, the OnePlus Ace 3 comes with a smaller and lower quality 6.78-inch AMOLED display with a resolution of 2780 x 1264 pixels, but with 120Hz refresh rate technology and maximum brightness of 4500 nits, it's certainly not child's play. any measure of the word.

Because OnePlus had To cut some costs and hit the absolutely insane prices above, the Ace 3 doesn't fully support wireless charging, while downgrading every camera from the company's latest flagship. But even these compromises don't seem like total deal-breakers, at least on paper, given that you still get super-fast 100W wired charging capabilities and a perfectly competent-sounding 50MP rear primary shooter with an f/1.8 aperture.

The 8 MP secondary and 2 MP tertiary cameras on the back of the Ace 3, as well as the single 16 MP front sensor, seem decidedly underwhelming, which doesn't dampen our enthusiasm for the one bit. imminent US launch of the OnePlus 12R. . The same goes for the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor, which is technically a downgrade from Gen 3 inside the OnePlus 12 but in the real world, you're unlikely to notice a significant disparity in performance.
While it's certainly too early for such verdicts, we can totally see this bad boy smoking out models like Google's “vanilla” Pixel 8, Samsung's Galaxy S23 FE, and Motorola's Edge (2023) in terms of value for money.