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OnePlus 5, 'The Best Sub-$500 Phone You Can Buy', Launched (arstechnica.com)
From an ArsTechnica article: Smartphone companies don't seem to care about cultivating a true "lineup" of phones. If you aren't spending at least $650, most companies will offer you anonymous, second-rate devices that seem like they've had no thought put into them. Enter the OnePlus 5, which continues the company's tradition of offering an all-business, high-end smartphone for a great price. Today OnePlus is both announcing the OnePlus 5 and lifting the review embargo on the device, which we've had for about two weeks now. $479 gets you an aluminum-clad pocket computer with a 2.45GHz Snapdragon 835 SoC, 6GB of RAM, 64GB of storage, and a 3,300mAh battery. You still get OnePlus' physical 3-way alert switch, a USB-C port, capacitive buttons with a front-mounted fingerprint reader, and a headphone jack. The phone has two cameras on the back: one 16MP main camera and one 20MP telephoto camera, arranged in the most iPhone-y way possible. Besides the $479 version, there's a more expensive $539 version, which ups the RAM from 6GB to a whopping 8GB, adds another 64GB of storage for a total of 128GB, and changes the color from "Slate Grey" to "Midnight Black." Further reading: OnePlus 5 review: as fast and smooth as Google Pixel, without the price tag - The Guardian;
OnePlus 5 review: the me-too phone - The Verge; OnePlus 5 Review - Wired.
It's got one of those heterogeneous processors I think. Runs a slow and a fast core at the same time.
If you're running Netflix, you're probably close to a charger, like in the car or something. Either that or you're a sad, pathetic fool who goes out to the McDonalds so you can sit there watching Netflix on your phone for 2 hours.
I get decent battery life out of Spotify, at least.
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I remember back in the day when people scrolled past articles that didn't interest them instead of posting whiny comments.
If you're running Netflix, you're probably close to a charger, like in the car or something. Either that or you're a sad, pathetic fool... ... I was not aware that millions of people that have long commutes on a bus or train were sad, pathetic fools.
Or the millions of people who take plane flights often lasting three hours or longer for domestic flights...
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The grandparent is correct nonetheless, any phone with micro SD slot has to pay the license. That's because Microsoft managed to get the micro SD standard to adopt and enforce EXFAT. /marking on the product packaging.
No EXFAT (preformatted) , no uSD (or SD) label
All devices with uSD/SD slots pay the fee, including any android phones, digital cameras, etcetera...
No idea if it could help to shift the name back to transflash...
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