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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...
I hope you realize the only reason the word "courage" has any meaning when discussing technology is because a world famous CEO used it as a cover up for removing a very useful feature from a phone just to fleece it's customers.
To be more clear, he lied out of ass and no one took him to task. People opened the iphone and found the space *empty* where the headphone jack used to be. And then they added a 3d poop emoji VR scanner in the extra space on their next phone iteration... Some amateur even later put his OWN headphone jack in place.
So, yes, it will be funny/insightful/whatever for a long, long time. This is tech history now. The fact that this CEO didn't fired for lying his ass off to the entire world, and actually being supported by so many goes to show how cowardly and deluded the world is getting.