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OnePlus 6 Launched With 6.28-inch Display, Snapdragon 845 CPU, and Headphone Jack (phonedog.com)
OnePlus has launched their newest flagship smartphone today at an event in London. The OnePlus 6, as it is called, features a 6.28-inch 2280x1080 display with 19:9 aspect ratio and notch, Snapdragon 845 octa-core processor with up to 8GB of RAM, 16- and 20-megapixel rear-facing cameras, 3,330mAh battery, 3.5mm headphone jack, and Android 8.1 Oreo running out of the box with support for Android P coming soon. Strangely, the phone features a glass build construction but no support for wireless charging. OnePlus claims the glass back will be better for transmitting radio waves, but it's likely included in preparation for the OnePlus 6T, which will likely launch several months later and include wireless charging. PhoneDog reports: Around on the back of the OnePlus 6 is a vertically stacked dual rear camera setup that's now in the center of the phone for symmetry. There's a 16MP camera with Sony IMX 519 sensor, f/1.7 aperture, and support for optical image stabilization and electronic image stabilization, as well as a 20MP camera with Sony IMD 376K sensor and f/1.7 aperture. Also included are portrait mode and slow-motion 480fps video capture features.
The body of the OnePlus 6 is made of Gorilla Glass 5, which OnePlus says will be better for transmitting radio waves. Rounding out the OP6's spec list is a 16MP front-facing camera, NFC, Bluetooth 5.0, USB-C, an alert slider, and a 3.5mm headphone jack. On the security side of things, there's a rear fingerprint reader and face unlock, and when it comes to wireless capabilities, the OnePlus 6 supports 40 global LTE bands as well as 4x4 MIMO for speeds up to 1Gbps. The OnePlus 6 will be available on May 22 with the following prices: 6GB/64GB: $529; 8GB/128GB: $579; 8GB/256GB: $629.
The body of the OnePlus 6 is made of Gorilla Glass 5, which OnePlus says will be better for transmitting radio waves. Rounding out the OP6's spec list is a 16MP front-facing camera, NFC, Bluetooth 5.0, USB-C, an alert slider, and a 3.5mm headphone jack. On the security side of things, there's a rear fingerprint reader and face unlock, and when it comes to wireless capabilities, the OnePlus 6 supports 40 global LTE bands as well as 4x4 MIMO for speeds up to 1Gbps. The OnePlus 6 will be available on May 22 with the following prices: 6GB/64GB: $529; 8GB/128GB: $579; 8GB/256GB: $629.
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I'll be passing on this one. Notch.
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Like my ass, people just don't want to look at it!
What's the world coming to when you have to mention right up front, that your phone has a headphone jack? Thanks, Apple. (And wipe that smirk off your face, Samsung, because it was a mere oversight that the headline doesn't also mention that it's not explosive.)
Glass back, notch, horrible aspect ratio.
So basically, everything people said they didn't want in the surveys that OnePlus did before the launch.
Good work guys!
As long as there any phones out there that do not have a glass back I will never buy a phone with a glass back. Why on Earth would you make the most fragile material known to man an integral part of your case? Glass is a stupid idea for a back, only marginally better is metal because they're always polished to the point where you can't hold the device. We need to get back to reasonable materials on phones. a good textured back in a premium plastic style would avoid the need for a case on most of these phones, would look better, and be more durable.
There's only one reason manufacturers use glass backs on their phones, and that's to try to get you to buy more phones when you can't hold on to your existing one because it's so slippery you drop it and inevitably shatter the back of the phone.
Seriously, where's the machine with remotely similar specs, plus some kind of a keyboard and software freedom?
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It looks like good value for money for the specs, but it's been a while since there was any reason for top-of-the-line phone hardware.
It would be nice if they still made something like the OP3, at a commensurate price. That's plenty of phone for most people, at half the price. And OnePlus has been good about software updates, minimal (if any) crapware on the phone and minimal tweaking with Android, so it would be really nice if *they* (and not a competitor) made such a "down-market" phone.
No MicroSD slot.
No removable battery.
No IPS display.
Ridiculous price.
No sale.
Just picked up a Galaxy 8+ refurb at Boost online for $350 and a DeX dock for $87 at Best Buy. Am anxiously awaiting Linux on Galaxy to be released. ;)
That's no phone. It's a tablet (with phone functions).
The body of the OnePlus 6 is made of Gorilla Glass 5...
Why would anyone buy a glass phone? Please do not start me on the so called Gorilla Glass. I find that this glass breaks too; sometimes very easily.
For that reason, I will not touch this phone at all. Never!
OK, wireless technology is so far ahead of data costs it is not even funny!
What is the point of advertising a speed that if attained would exhaust my monthly data allocation in mere seconds (or a couple of minutes at best)? Until there is such a thing as truly "unlimited" data plans (that also do not cost an arm and a leg) which allow me to use these speed somehow (perhaps as a hotspot?), show me stuff I can use. Yes the headphone jack is nice, put in a good battery (with an appropriate chipset/screen combination that makes it last over a full day of medium-heavy usage) but also get rid of that ugly notch on the display and make a back that does not slip and break, you know, the important stuff.
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I own a OnePlus, and I doubt my next phone will be OnePlus. They have had a number of security breaches lately, which eroded some of my trust.
The stunt they pulled with the code made to send the contents of the clipboard to a third party is just too much. Their excuse that it was only code intended for the Chinese market is terrible -- if this is what they do to bend to Chinese surveillance, how can anyone trust them? Is there any evidence that other vendors are equally uncaring about human rights?
Anyway, I'm hoping that the next Pixel device is reasonably affordable. Otherwise it may be OnePlus plus a custom ROM and hope that the modem chip isn't backdoored.
(Apart from that the OnePlus phones that I've had have been pretty bad for actual phone calls. I can barely hear the other side, and they get echo from my side. However, phone calls are way down on my priority list for a cell "phone")
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Is the bootloader locked? There's no way in any sane universe that a person with a shred of concern for privacy and/or security would buy a phone with a black box Chinese OS. That just comically stupid.
Can it make phone calls?
does it have a screen too? how about a speaker? i hate apple just as much as the next guy, but this is absurd.
I dont mean apps for the toy piece of shit Android and its java douche layer. Give us a blank, empty phone with the specs for the radio chips we'll write our own stuff that we can audit. Otherwise fuck off with the attempts to drum up excitement. This is just your own corporate feelings of excitement about getting people to buy into your sleazy data-profiling because they are too stupid to care.
WOW ! Snapdragon 845 CPU! running google's JAVA shitware written by some fat, malingering tranny they hired
Personally I'll wait for the TwoTimes 4, or the "Eight." Or even the ThreeToThePowerOf 3, the "Nine."
There's no sensible reason for having a headphone jack in 2018. A cable getting in the way is not cool.
I will never buy a phone with a notch - it was always just a bridge/stepping stone until we got the tech right. There are already phones that have jumped through this gap.
500+EUR and 3300 battery? thanks - not needed
All.ot does, is force you to charge anonther battery every n hours or be afraid it will empy if you actually enjoy it too much,
and throw away you device every 2-3 years when its soldered-in battery will be crap.
Plus interference fucking up the connection, or trying to hide it by degrading quality behind your back.
Oh, and everyone being able to listen in, and alter the streams, because you are in fact broadcasting. ... with no way to update the firmware.
No, it won't be enrypted securely. Because that is complex and takes a load of battery. It will be a shitty half-assed encryption that does not count,with security holes left and right,
And l that for the pointless "feature" of not having a cable. Because, you have been told they are oh-so baad. And as a proud blackeyer, it is your obligation to gobble up all you opinion makers' propaganda cum.
If you believe that is a good thing, you are mentally ill on a level where only putting you down helps.
Polycarbonate case, with non-glossy aluminium sides screwed on. True IP68, and survives being thrown against a wall.
I can literally put it through a washing cycle in my washing machine.
And it.actually has a look!
No, dear manufacturers, "featureless glass slab with featureless back" is not a look! There are no features to look a certain way in the first place!
Two screen protectors and two replacement flaps to actually keep it water tight for its entire lifetime with a regular headphone jack came with it.
The manufaturer himself put a complete disassembly and reassembly video on YouTube.
Original replacement back sides are 10 EUR on eBay. With screwdrivers. Batteries are sold there too. Replacing it is trivial even though it is "built in".
Also, it it completely unbrickable.
You can ruin the boot loader and the entire software stack, and the SoC still allows you to flash it. (Granted, a security risk. But if somebody physically got his hands on your phone, it is game over anyway. He could also screw it open and connect another device.)
Price? 180 EUR. ... notch ... err price ... phone before that phone's battery and hence the phone becomes useless.
For that price I could buy two every year, and still come out below a top
(The successors became more featureless though.)
Everybody else will look like a dork with this device to their ear.
I had a OnePlus One (would still have it if I hadn't dropped it down some stairs) and currently have a OnePlus 3, quite disappointing where these phones have ended up.
I'm currently an iphone user but I've been paying a lot of attention to Android's releases because Apple's recent behaviours have been making me consider jumping ship.
But there are certain features on my iphone that I consider invaluable, the most notable one being Siri.
For example, I can ask siri to give me a weather report while I'm getting ready in the morning, and it will give me a useful summary. Or when I'm travelling on my bike, I can tap my headphones and ask for the time, or tell it "play all" and it will play my music. I can dictate text messages, tell it to initiate a call, etc. In short, it's invaluable for when I need to use my phone without being able to look at it.
And for inexplicable reasons android phone reviews *never* touch on this topic, focusing too much on on specs and aesthetics and too little on what you can actually DO with the thing.
The last time I used the Google Assistant, it was nothing more than a voice interface to google search. Has this changed? I've talked to a few people about it, but no one seems to use it in the capacities mentioned above. Can anyone provide any insight on this?
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Why? - I'd much rather have wireless charging.
I tend to break jacks (charging, headphone etc.) within a couple of months, so I switched to Bluetooth headphone a long time ago, and when wireless charging came out I jumped on that as well. No jacks to break.
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