The Sony Xperia Z3 is currently the flagship device from Sony released in the year 2014. It is available all over the world presently the best premium device released by this company. The OnePlus One features a great approach in the making of present generation smartphones with massive hardware provided at a budget price. Although a close battle, let us see how these devices fare against each other.
The Sony Xperia Z3 is a tough device that is IP68 certified which means that it is dust proof and water resistant over 1 meter and 30 minutes. It supports the usage of a Nano-SIM. The OnePlus One does not have any such features but remains a highly powerful device.
Display:
Display-wise, the Sony Xperia Z3, has an IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen with 16M colors. It has a full-HD 5.2 inch 1080×1920 pixels display with a brilliant 424ppi pixel density which makes pictures and videos very sharp to look at. It is a brilliant Triluminous display working on Sony’s X-Reality Engine. It supports Multi-touch input and is protected by a Shatterproof glass.
The OnePlus One has a slightly different LTPS LCD capacitive touchscreen with 16M colors. It has a bigger 5.5 inch screen with a full-HD 1080×1920 pixels display followed by the pixel density of 401ppi which is slightly lower than that of the Z3. It also supports a 10-finger multi-touch input but is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 3.
Hardware Features:
The Sony Xperia Z3, being the flagship device of 2014, was launched with Android OS, v4.4.4 (KitKat) and presently faces a planned upgrade to Android v5.0 Lollipop. The device runs on the powerful Qualcomm MSM8974AC Snapdragon 801 chipset running on Quad-core 2.5 GHz Krait 400 CPU architecture. It makes use of an Adreno 330 GPU. The OnePlus One features a great performing device with the same Qualcomm MSM8974AC Snapdragon 801 chipset running on the same Quad-core 2.5 GHz Krait 400 CPU with a similar GPU as well.
Memory and Storage:
The OnePlus One comes with two internal storage variants of 16/64GB. It does not have a microSD card slot for further expansion. However, the Sony Xperia Z3 has 16/32GB variants, upgradable to 128GB using a microSD card. Both of the devices run on the same 3GB RAM. The camera aspect is where the OnePlus One gets beaten hands-down.
Camera:
The Sony Xperia Z3 makes use of a 20.7 MP rear shooter with 5248 х 3936 pixels, autofocus, and LED flash. Other features include 1/2.3” sensor size, geo-tagging, face detection; touch focus, panorama, and HDR. The OnePlus One has an inferior 13MP camera; however both of them have the same 2160p video-recording ability. The OnePlus One also has a 5MP secondary shooter compared to the 2.2MP on the Sony Xperia Z3.