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OnePlus Announces OnePlus 2 'Flagship Killer' Android Phone With OxygenOS
MojoKid writes: The OnePlus 2 was officially unveiled [Monday] evening and it has been announced that the smartphone will start at an competitively low $329, unlocked and contract free. The entry level price nets you a 5.5" 1080p display, a cooler-running 1.8GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 v2.1 SoC paired with 3GB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage, a 13MP rear camera (with OIS, laser focusing and two-tone flash), 5MP selfie camera, and dual nano SIM slots. If you don't mind handing over an extra $60, you'll receive 4GB of RAM to back the processor and 64GB of internal storage. Besides beefing up the internal specs, OnePlus has also paid some attention to the exterior of the device, giving it a nice aluminum frame and a textured backplate. There are a number of optional materials that you can choose from including wood and Kevlar.
Reader dkatana links to InformationWeek's coverage, which puts a bit more emphasis on what the phone doesn't come with: NFC. Apparently, people just don't use it as much as anticipated.
Where's the freakin Sd Card?
Unless you want an SD Card, NFC, Wireless charging, front speakers, OIS camera, or removable battery.
Buy an Android phone? LOLOLOLOLOLOL.
What's the alternative Crapple or Blackberry?
As a IS-BE you have right to work, slave do whatever but when the time comes, you memory will be erased and the great cycle begins, again, recycle, repeat every ~70 Sun revolution. Life on planet hell is hell.
Go ahead buy another gadget :)
and the 32GB version comes later. Fucking fact check for fucks sake, you fuckwit.
You get the same memory, a faster processor (by raw GHz - the Zenfone is Intel), for $299.
Why would I go with this phone instead?
Surely the people of /. at clever enough not to compare by raw GHz when two processors have the same architecture. Oh wait, they don't even have that.
Too bad they dropped Cyanogenmod. With Cyanogenmod you know that you can get easily installable updates, particularly when something nasty like Stagefright vulnerabilities appear.
I doubt the customized OxygenOS will be updated regularly, like most vendor specific Android devices.
That's bonkers! Or maybe not...
Be relentless!
The big selling point for One Plus One was Cyanogenmod, so we could freeze all that Google spyware crap (and Samsuncrap, and Asus crap), basically all that surveillance ware that phone vendors install on the phones.
You could also selectively remove rights from apps after they had been installed.
So how does Oxygen OS stack up on the privacy front, because the basic phone is OK, but 1080p screen is entry level these days.
You get the same memory, a faster processor (by raw GHz - the Zenfone is Intel)
You’re an idiot.
"People just don't use it as much as anticipated"
That may be true of 2014, the future of mobile pay was shaky to say the least, with high profile retailers Best Buy and 7-Eleven pulling out (they're back in now), but with Apple pushing mobile payments, new tap to pay checkout devices are showing up on the counters of retailers every day, and I expect it to be the norm by the end of this year.
I currently use tap to pay 7+ times per week, and expect that to double by January. I love how fast it is, and that I don't have to hand my CC over.
I'm not worried about speaker placement, camera specs, removable battery (assuming the battery is of sufficient mah), or removable flash storage, but no NFC will makes this device a non-starter for me.
Android runs fine IFF you get a Google Nexus phone, AND don't go through Verizon or AT&T and have their malware installed. I wouldn't buy anything else if they paid ME money, it's gotten that bad. But if you can get over the stickershock and buy a nexus and add a plan, then it's pretty good.
Or if you buy any Android-compatible phone, root it and install your own OS on it. Seriously, I don't understand why anyone on Slashdot doesn't do this.
If you don't like wireless charging, you must not have a magnetic charging mount. I made one for my car - the phone snaps into place and charges without ever plugging it in. It's also easier to drop it on my nightstand.
I'll admit it's a minor convenience, but we're living in the 21st century. It should feel like it.
And a bottom headphone jack is (as the kids say) teh suck. Want to put your phone in a stand or tilt it up while listening - nope, can't do it. How about putting your phone right side up in your pocket so when you take it out you can see your program right side up. Nope. It's one of the least favorite "features" that came to my iPhone 5, and one of the ones I hated when Android phones followed suit.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
Can you root a note 3? If you can, Reply w/ your location, I think there's about a 30k bounty out still. You might be getting paid.
I recently ran into the Dual SIM Issue in the U.S with a Lumia 530 that was geared towards the India market, where dual SIM cards are popular. Major carriers here require you to have a data plan per sim per smartphone. Yes, you heard that right. Even if you have an unlimited data plan on SIM 1, they will require you to have a small data plan on SIM 2. It is an automatic thing, and there's no way around it. You could of course have a "family" data plan, and they'd just view your account as a two phone account. Evidently their system will audit any smartphone and verify it has a data plan, if it doesn't, it will add it "hassle-free" according the ATT folks. They do not have plans to budge on this. If you have two separate carriers, it's even more difficult.
Once again, the U.S. still hasn't caught up to the rest of the industrialized world.
NFC and wireless charging really seems like they should have been no-brainers.
The removable backs would seem to really favor of uSD storage (they're already using the cover for access tot he dual sims) and replaceable battery.
It's a shame they went totally cosmetic with the backs. If it had included the back and side (wrap-around), that would have been fabulous. Something like the slim guard case for the LG G3 (that was, oddly, only available in S. Korea) would have been awesome. I know, you can always add a ridiculously bulky case that makes your phone twice as thick and half again as heavy, trapping stray sand between the case and back to produce wonderful swirly patterns on your OEM back, but something integral would have been a real bonus.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
I believe you are referring to unlocking the bootloader to install your own OS. Rooting doesn't do much.
I use NFC on my phone to check the balance on my Suica (train and bus) card regularly. It is really useful. With NFC mass transit payment systems becoming ubiquitous, it seems backwards looking to leave out this feature.
It DOES come with a serial port to connect a 56k dialup modem!
Can you root a note 3? If you can, Reply w/ your location, I think there's about a 30k bounty out still. You might be getting paid.
The Note 3 is very easy to root, like almost all Samsung phones. Maybe you are talking about :
- Carrier locking : pay cash instead of subsidized and not only your phone won't be locked but you may even save money in the long run.
- KNOX warranty bit : when you root the "official" way, you permanently lose KNOX features (a secure framework designed for corporate use), you may also lose your warranty depending on your jurisdiction and goodwill of the repair center. Everything else works fine.
You're saying that only the most popular option is profitable? I guess that explains why there isn't, and never has been, a manufacturer of absolutely anything at all that produces two different models.
P.S. People aren't sand. It's number with a countable noun, not amount .
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
No, I'm saying companies are cheap and don't tend to make a lot of variations on models because it costs them more, unless they think it's worth it.
If they figure only 5-10% of the market would buy a phone with a physical keyboard, they might not be willing to chase that because it's not worth it. And if it poses a risk to make something until they know how many would be sold, they just might not do it.
Just because you want a feature doesn't mean the company making it gives a damn. If they did, they'd probably make it.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
Yeah, call it music if you want. I suppose there's some chackawacka guitar and saxophone in the background...
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
"The 5.5-inch OnePlus One was sold at £229 for 16GB of storage and £269 for 64GB respectively, and ran open source CyanogenMod software based on Google's Android" ref
Are they paying the Microsoft Android tax?
I picked up a pair of OnePlus Ones and one of them had a hardware failure and stopped booting after a month. I can understand when a small company has slower customer service, but the time from me placing my initial ticket to having a replacement in the mail was 7 weeks. That's a long time to have a brick for a phone. There is no customer service phone line to call, only email, and the response time is between 1-4 days to get a canned email response. Over time, you progress through a litany of canned responses (with occasional repeats along the way). The amount of hoops that need to be jumped through is incredible and I will never purchase another product from the company again, and vehemently recommend against them for anyone that asks.
Yeah, because that straw-man attack sure has something to do with running out of storage space...
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
Or if you buy any Android-compatible phone, root it and install your own OS on it. Seriously, I don't understand why anyone on Slashdot doesn't do this.
Or you can buy an Android phone outright with the manufacturers image on it.
I know this concept may be foreign to many in the US, but it's quite a common occurrence to those of us in Europe, Australia, Asia... pretty much anywhere that isn't the US.
BTW, you shouldn't need to root the phone to get rid of carrier crapware, all you need is the signed base image from the manufacturer. I understand these aren't hard to find.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
You're a total fucking idiot. Really.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
I've had a great teacher. Despite my best efforts I will never achieve your level of mastery though.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
Or you could just pick a non-shitty carrier (i.e. T-Mobile) and not have to deal with ROM-installed malware, and get unlimited (yes, throttled after X GB, but never cut off) data use, and even get flagship hardware (like an LG G3) at a reasonable price.
The OP1 w/ Cyanogenmod is easily one of the best phones out. With this OP2 version, im considering bailing out of the iOS game. And Ive been fooling around w Cydia since the iPhone 1G.