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OnePlus 5T Featuring 6-inch AMOLED Display, 3.5mm Headphone Jack Launched (wired.com)
Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus, which has been lauded by consumers for offering phones with top-of-the-line specs at a reasonably affordable price range, on Thursday at an event in New York announced its newest flagship smartphone. Called the OnePlus 5T, the handset sports a 6.01-inch AMOLED screen (screen resolution 1080 x 2160) manufactured by Samsung in a body that is roughly of the same size as the 5.5-inch display-clad predecessor OnePlus 5. The secret sauce is, much like Samsung, LG and Apple, OnePlus has moved to a near bezel-less design. The company is not getting rid of the fingerprint scanner though, which it has pushed to the back side. The front-facing camera, additionally, OnePlus says, can be used to unlock the device. Other features include a 3,300mAh battery with the company's proprietary Dash Charge fast-charging tech (no wireless charging support -- the company says at present wireless charging doesn't really add much value to the device), top-of-the-line Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor with Adreno 540, 6GB of RAM with 64GB of storage (there is another variant of the phone which offers 8GB of RAM with 128GB of space). As for camera, we are looking at a dual 16-megapixel and 20-megapixel setup in the back. One more thing: the phone has a headphone jack and it runs Android 7.1 out of the box. The OnePlus 5T will go on sale in Europe, India, and the United States starting November 21st, with the base model priced at Euro 499, INR 32,999, and $499, respectively. The high-end variant is priced at Euro 559, INR 37,999, and $559. Wired has more details.
While OnePlus will provide fix for security issues, you have to play cat and mouse all the time... https://www.tomsguide.com/us/o...
The new way to make publicity: make a article showing your product and present it like it is news....
nuff said.
(Circa 2014)
Manufacturer - "Our phone comes with a headphone jack."
Customer - "Uhhh, no shit. Why are you even telling me this?"
(Circa 2017)
Manufacturer - "Our phone comes with a headphone jack."
Customer - "Ballsy move man. I'm impressed by your courage."
Obligatory reference to OnePlus' lack of courage.
Doesn't that just mean it's obsolete out of the box given the current version of Android is 8 (Oreo)?
Pretty much the only thing I ever want to know about new Android phones is whether or not I'm going to get the latest updates. These days unless it's a Pixel the answer is 'no' (maybe that will change with this Project Treble thing) but for some reason we still get breathless Android phone announcements like this Wired one that are all about how many megapixels or bezels it has.
There is no denying that Oneplus 5T is a good value considering you get top shelf hardware spec for 500-something USD. However, this is no longer a budget "flagship killer" phone the way the original 300/350USD Oneplus One (16/64GB) used to be in 2014. At this +500 price, you can find mainstream brand phones, such as LG G6. I was able to score a Galaxy S8 for under 500USD with a trade-in phone. Other things being equal, I still prefer Oneplus to LG, but a lot of brand loyal who were originally attracted by low pricing will start wondering what happened.
OnePlus includes spyware and sells your personal data, at no additional cost to you.
All the specs mean jack shit if the bootloader is locked. That's the surest sign that the software on the phone is working against you and the manufacturer doesn't want you to be able to stop it.
Take a look at this: - Another Shadt App Found Pre-Installed on OnePlus phones https://thehackernews.com/2017... Quote: "A security researcher just found another secret app that records tons of information about your phone"....
Continuing the cheaper EIS, which is way inferior to the optical stabilization found on their previous phones. Along with backdoor spy programs that are known, and what isn't known, it's not a bad phone, but, I'd wait a few months for them to get the kinks worked out. All of their phones have had out the door bugs. Going from the 3 to the 3T, wasn't as bad, and since the 5 & 5T are pretty similar, it probably won't have as many bugs, but the lack of OIS is a problem, unless you just don't care about the IQ of the image. Zoom into the image, and you will see lack of sharpness in the detail.
No water resistance. Pass.
Use Firefox ESR. Problem solved. By the time ESR is updated with this API change, any maintained plugin should be updated to run in it.
...ning.
The whole point of Android, is to make Google, the mother of all data kraken, more money.
Anyone who's interested in not being tracked will (let his geek friend) install a new OS without even booting Android.
My GF works in a very privacy-sensitive field, and has no clue about computers. Yet she knew precisely that there might be tracking and that that is not acceptable. So she asked me to remove it. Same thing with all her colleagues.
(People always assume that just because people are clueless about computers, they would be clueless regarding privacy and security too. But people who care about these things, know what to do, no matter what they're experts in.)
Which OS will you install in place of Android that brings you the security and functionality you need ?
Nullius in verba
Android itself isn't the problem, it's the applications and customisations applied by google, handset makers and network operators. The stock open source Android (AOSP) is fine, and there are various community builds available.
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Nice copy-paste Chrome shilling.
Noscript is coming in a couple of days because the developer is slow on the conversion to WebExtensions. The new API has been available for a long time, everyone knew the release date of FF57 and that new extensions would have to be in WebExtensions format from that date. The fact that some extension developers weren't ready is their own problem, maybe you should donate some time or money to them, if you care so much?
Besides, uMatrix is available and is a much more powerful alternative to NoScript.
Eat the rich.
the best option is to completely abandon the manufacturer, unlock the bootloader and install a different operating system in the hopes it will remain better supported.
Example of a different operating system with commercial support : Sailfish X (for Sony Xperia X) by Jolla, the former Nokia engineer who were working on Maemo/Meego for the N700/N800/N900/N9 series before Elop and Microsoft happened to them.
That's another alternative possibility to the usual suspects (like LineageOS, etc.)
(Note: NOT Android based at all - except for the platform drivers, it's still GNU/Linux under the hood like back when at Nokia).
Regarding phones fromOnePlus, Jolla doesn't currently have an official line of products, but there's a vibrant community so a community port might show up in talk.maemo.org
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Android itself isn't the problem, it's the applications and customisations applied by google, handset makers and network operators. The stock open source Android (AOSP) is fine, and there are various community builds available.
Don't kid yourself, Android IS the problem.