I used the OnePlus Road 3 for 90 days as my laptop and there is no return
There is a generation of Indians for whom Android feels much more indigenous than a platform than Windows or Mac could ever do. This is why I was looking for my Windows laptop and replace it with an Android-powered tablet for years, and the OnePlus Road 3 finally fits the account for me. I have been using the unplug tablet for over 90 days as my laptop replacement, and here is how it did in the real world. One warning before we continue: The use case as a laptop replacement can only be limited to users like me who do not play many AAA titles or edit videos with professional software, both of you should be to get a Windows or a Mac device in handy. You may be interested in my use case, I spend most of my time writing stories, watching movies and browsing the web, for which the OnePlus Road 3 is perfectly sufficient. How did the OnePlus Road 3 act as my laptop replacement? The new tablet of OnePlus is with a 13.2-inch 3.4K 144Hz screen with 900 Nit’s HBM and a 540Hz sampling rate. The larger performance, compared to the 12.1-inch form factor of its predecessor, gives the OnePlus Road 3 more real estate to play with, which you do not remember the great exhibitions. It is not an OLED panel, which according to OnePlus would have significantly increased costs, but the IPS screen on the road 3 will be good enough for most users, whether you are playing, watching movies or browsing the web. The 900 Nits HBM ensures that you do not have much trouble watching, even while you are traveling. Another good thing with the road 3 is that OnePlus cut off the thickness and the weight of the tablet, which measures just 5.97 mm and 675g respectively. OnePlus sells the folio case, the keyboard and the stylus separately with the tablet. The case allows for the movement of the tablet from 110 to 165 degrees, but I feel that the magnets on it could have been a little stronger. There were a number of cases where the road 3 slides off its position while adjusting the corners. The keyboard itself is not something special; This will not give you the kind of feedback you would expect from a laptop keyboard, and the lack of a taillight means using the lights at night while working. However, once you start using the road 3, these problems will slowly shift to the background. OnePlus Road 3 Display OnePlus Pad 3 with its keyboard lets us come straight in the two reasons why I prefer the OnePlus Pad 3 as my laptop replacement. One: The battery life, and two: the connected software experience. The OnePlus Road 3 has a 12140mah battery with a quick drawer of 80 W. While the battery is the same as last year, the road 3 lasted on most occasions on a one and a half day in a use that combines 9 hours of work (writing and browsing the web), watching movies and listening to music. Compare this to a normal Windows computer, which lasts 4-5 hours for the same use. I will give you that the current Snapdragon-powered devices have much larger battery life, but chances are your computer does not yet have an arm-based processor. The battery life on OnePlus Pad 3 that talks about the software experience is now no secret that OnePlus’s oxygen is one of the most fluid Android sheets in the market. Although I would have expected more function upgrades from last year in terms of interconnectivity, the features currently here will be sufficient for most users. If you use a unplug phone, you will get the best experience from this ecosystem, in which you can connect your smartphone to the tablet to ward off programs on the larger screen, transfer content, to synchronize notifications, share the clipboard, and best share the mobile data from the phone to work on the tablet. For someone traveling a lot, the need is not to turn on hotspot every time I have to use the internet on my tablet, a big win. The NFC chip on the keyboard can be used to immediately share and share files with OnePlus and OPPO devices immediately. There are also a lot of shortcuts that will not miss you; For example, the menu key + d takes you to the home screen, alt + V opens the clipboard, and Alt + Tab opens recent tasks. OnePlus Road 3-short roads, but by far the striking function on the road 3 is the split screen mechanism called Open Canvas, which can seamlessly integrate up to three screens. With the system, you can get the best out of the screen from the screen by adjusting the programs to some extent where they can even turn out to one side of the screen. I usually use it with AI programs like Gemini by redirecting them on the corner of the screen. Once I finish writing my text, I simply move the split screen to the other side to open twins to generate images, and save a lot of time in the process. Split screen on OnePus Road 3 OnePlus Road 3 Open Canvas There are also all the AI-powered features on the tablet that are together with other OnePlus phones, such as AI translation, AI writer, AI notes, Gemini Live and Circle to Search. These features were not very useful for my workflow, but hopefully the Oxygenos 16 update will also bring some new exciting updates to the road 3. A few problems I faced: The journey to use the road 3, as my laptop replacement has been very fertile over the last few days, but there have been some roadblocks along the way, most of which are on Android rather than unplug problems. No exciting view during reading: Do you remember how you can push F11 to turn your current tab into reading mode, where all the menus get out of the way? Well, you can’t do the same on Android. I tried at least 6-7 different browsers, from brave to kiwi to rand and firefox. None of the browsers fully concealed the status bar. A lack of good Android browsers: On a related note, the current group of Android browsers does not give you the same kind of adjustment as their Windows fees do. Most browsers do not come with expansion support. Some who do this do not support split screen. In the end, I chose the Edge Canary browser, which could do it all, but even then the third-party extensions would not work sometimes. A lack of programs to use the power of Snapdragon 8 Elite: The Snapdragon 8 -Lite on the road 3 is one of the most powerful processors on which you can get hands, but the Android ecosystem does not give you many programs and games that can fully use the power of this SOC. Hopefully there will be better video editing programs and games for Android in the future. Strange Error: Finally, I encountered a strange mistake while using the road 3 where my connected mouse frozen for 3-4 seconds. The company seems to have solved this problem with an OTA update, but I felt it was worth mentioning here. Final Thoughts: The OnePlus Pad 3 currently offers the best you can get from an Android tablet with a good quality show, great battery life, wonderful software and a powerful processor. Of course, there are problems with Android support for tablets, but this is the price we have paid for years for choosing this operating system. If you are looking for an Android tablet around the £ 40,000 point, there is really no further than the OnePlus Road 3.