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.

Comments

Runs Android 7.1 out of the box

[trawg]

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.

Re:Runs Android 7.1 out of the box

[guacamole]

I think it's fair to say that 99% of all phones that already run Oreo are Google's own Pixel and Nexus phones. Oneplus historically hasn't been bad about updating its phones. For example, they promised the Oneplus 3 and 3T should get Android 8 eventually. Their update cycle is actually faster because they don't sell any carrier branded phones. Marshmallow and Nougat are the most popular Android versions (each taking around 30 percent of market), so either of those is hardly obsolete.