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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.
I don't know; I'll skip the 3t (I have a OnePlus One) and wait for the OnePlus Five to get Lineage OS anyway. I don't play well with vendor OSes.
When I had the OPO, they had regular updates until they dropped CyanogenOS for OxygenOS. The default OS was also very clean, although it pestered me to buy some themes with a non-removable notification (themes needed updates, which required a Cyanogen account or some such rubbish, which I wasn't into). Not quite straight CyanogenMod, but not the crapload of garbage as on regular phones.
I think my last-run OnePlus One might be dying. Not sure. It seems to have a tad bit of trouble with bluetooth sometimes, and is slow about Wifi. I can't tell if that's CyanogenMod, hardware, or something else without another phone to compare to. The plastic part of the encasing body is chipping and fraying along the connection to the bezel as well.
It's still an overall solid phone, despite being four generations out of date. I'm a little annoyed at it being only two years old and the 5 is coming out. The OnePlus Two is as of July, 2015; I got the OnePlus One around March, 2015. I pay about $160/year for unlimited voice and SMS, 2GB LTE+ on T-Mobile's network, one line; at two years's replacement, the phone is costing me $175 on top of that. At three it'd be $120. So long as it doesn't give out on me, it's still workable for now; this phone is still of a spec I'd buy new.
I'd actually be interested in a phone with half the dimensions, the same screen resolution, and a stylus.
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There is info in the article exactly about this. They've done a good job about updating mostly however, for one of their phones they walked back on their promise to update to Android 7.0 within a year. So, basically with anyone else other than Google, cant really expect much regarding OS updates. They do have a strong community though.
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Animals don't want to be in a zoo.
Therefore, we can conclude that these people's IQ is below both convicts and animals.
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Especially, when the option is a $700-900 iPhone!
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That was the OnePlus Two (2015), they walked back support for Android 7. I have a OnePlus One with the stock Cyanogen still on it, and it's sitting at 6.0.1. The One launched in 2014 and I've been using it since without major issues since the first major update (the first update fixed several problems I had with the phone). It still feels fast and responsive, although it's running an older version of Android at this point. I never felt a need to upgrade the phone, but I may need to give the 5 a shot and sell mine.
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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.
Here's the spec sheet, scroll down a bit to Connectivity and you'll find the supported bands. It shouldn't be hard to find out which bands a particular carrier uses.
https://oneplus.net/5/specs
One good thing about this phone, I think it's the first one that has a single edition instead of localized versions. With the 3, for example, you could pick North America or Europe/Asia, but not a single phone that supports all of those bands. It looks like they finally have a radio that supports all kinds of bands and a single edition of the phone.
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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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Have a One plus X , bought it for 269 â , or something like that a year ago.
Best $mart phone I ever bought for the money. The specs (at the time) were more than enough for what I need it for (I dont play games on the phone) . Call, email, txt , camera, occasional browsing , and news apps.
Has dual SIM and a SD slot. Plus the battery life is amazing, I dont overload it with useless apps either. Most my colleagues at work have One as well , all different models. While the battery servicing is an issue not one of my colleagues has ever had a battery issue. Also maybe we are all engineers and use / charge our batteries properly for longevity.
Why do you need more than 128Gb on a phone? Genuinely curious.
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Apparently they are cheating at benchmarks: https://www.xda-developers.com...
I don't know how much to trust them as a company. Also the comment further up about them spamming older phones with ads for the new phone, with no way to turn it off. Even Samsung doesn't do that.
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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