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OnePlus 6 Launched With 6.28-inch Display, Snapdragon 845 CPU, and Headphone Jack (phonedog.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the new-and-shiny dept.

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.

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  1. Notch by Archangel+Michael · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'll be passing on this one. Notch.

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    1. Re:Notch by msauve · · Score: 2

      ...and not enough bezel. And "Bottom-facing speaker." Give me front facing stereo without a notch. Kudos for the headphone jack, RAM and available flash, though.

      And what's with this: "CDMA: BC0/BC1", which is what Verizon uses, but it's not listed as compatible.

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    2. Re:Notch by Trogre · · Score: 2

      Well it's not as if you can't afford one. How much did they pay you for Minecraft again?

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    3. Re:Notch by iamhassi · · Score: 1

      Agreed. Notches are dumb. I almost wonder if Apple is trolling Android by making a dumb design to see how many Android makers are dumb enough to copy it. I would rather lose the space to the right and left of the notch then to have a ugly notch in the middle. I can't say I would never buy a notched phone but that's my primary reason for not upgrading yet.

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    4. Re:Notch by AmiMoJo · · Score: 1

      You can disable it. The screen gets slightly shorter.

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    5. Re: Notch by jimbo · · Score: 1

      Apple and Essential brought their notches to the market within six months of each other. Since a phone usually is in development for a year or more I think it'd be fair to assume they came up with this obvious feature independently of each other. In any case, like with most things, it really doesn't matter who was first, it's here.

      Personally I see it as a minor thing, I don't care whether my next phone have one. I'm more interested to know for how long the manufacturer provides SW updates and on this point Oneplus apparently have a dismal history.

    6. Re:Notch by Jane+Q.+Public · · Score: 1

      U.S. intelligence agencies have recommended that US citizens (and especially government officials) stay away from Chinese-designed cell phone brands like One Plus, Hauwei, and ZTE.

      They have been found to be "calling home" personal information that you might not appreciate.

      Firms like Apple, who create the designs themselves to a low level, and have very strict quality controls and testing, are another matter.

      It is the entirely Chinese-designed-and-built brands they recommend not buying.

      And no, it's not some government conspiracy theory. Western security researchers have been keeping an eye on this possibility for some time.

      Hell, even Samsung TVs were found to be listening in on people's living rooms.

      It's time you got a bit more paranoid, folks.

      No joke.

    7. Re:Notch by danbert8 · · Score: 1

      Sadly, I almost trust China to be more responsible with illegally taking my data than my own American government...

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    8. Re: Notch by JackieBrown · · Score: 1

      Instead you will be walking around with portable battery chargers and usb plugs...

    9. Re:Notch by JackieBrown · · Score: 1

      I think China is less likely to care about my information than the NSA.

      I don't trust China more (trust them much less) but I think I would be a lot less of interest to the Chinese government than the US government.

    10. Re:Notch by danbert8 · · Score: 1

      I would be China does care less, but I guarantee the Chinese government has more to fear being discovered monitoring US citizens than the US government does. China would face some sort of international backlash if they did anything nefarious with the data. The US government would face a week of headlines and then be forgotten.

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    11. Re:Notch by Archangel+Michael · · Score: 1

      Actually, that is exactly what happened, only less so. There was a collective yawn when it happened, largely because we already believed it to be true.

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    12. Re:Notch by lexman098 · · Score: 1

      Technically "disabling it" doesn't make the screen shorter, it just keeps the status bar background black around the notch. You don't get your full statusbar back, but yeah it's a stupid thing to complain about either way.

  2. What's the world coming to? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    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.)

    1. Re:What's the world coming to? by iamhassi · · Score: 1

      Headphone jacks look old now. Over half the headphone inventory at Best Buy are bluetooth. With battery life in days and standby in months (years?) there's really no reason to buy corded headphones.

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    2. Re: What's the world coming to? by KozmoStevnNaut · · Score: 1

      Under ideal conditions, it's good. "Ideal conditions" meaning direct support for MP4/Ogg/whatever at both ends. Unfortunately that is extremely rare, and thus most headsets fall back to AptX transcoding or SBC, which can be acceptable at high bitrates, but falls apart extremely quickly at lower bitrates.

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  3. OnePlus did surveys... by green1 · · Score: 3, Funny

    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!

    1. Re:OnePlus did surveys... by mike449 · · Score: 1

      At least they had the courage to keep the phone jack!

    2. Re:OnePlus did surveys... by green1 · · Score: 1

      It's funny how courage has been re-defined to mean "didn't take away too many of the features people depend on".

  4. Glass back by green1 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Glass back by dgatwood · · Score: 1

      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.

      It's actually not more durable, if you make the plastic thin enough, which they will. :-(

      We've lost the durability war at this point. All tech is fragile crap. All that remains is for it to become cheap, fragile crap.

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    2. Re:Glass back by Hadlock · · Score: 1

      I ended up putting a vinyl "skin" on the back of my pixel a) to make it less slippery and b) hopefully minimize glass cracking and finally c) everyone at my office has one, they're impossible to tell apart.
       
      Looking forward to the glass back fad going away.

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    3. Re:Glass back by Lanthanide · · Score: 2

      But if it's cheap, then it doesn't matter so much that it's fragile.

      The problem is that these phones are getting more and more expensive.

    4. Re:Glass back by TeknoHog · · Score: 1

      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.

      Another reason is that the main purpose of "smart"phones is to show off your shiny slab. So by making both sides equally shiny and slabby, the utility is instantly doubled. Besides, what's the point of all those hardware specs if you can't rice it up with Gentoo?

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    5. Re:Glass back by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Maybe try wiping the Cheeto dust and grease off your fingers a bit more so you don't drop it....

    6. Re:Glass back by Ichijo · · Score: 1

      You should try to drop the phone face down so the back doesn't shatter.

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    7. Re:Glass back by PhrostyMcByte · · Score: 1

      I hear that. I got my first glass-backed phone and also ended up getting my first case, because it was clearly going to get scratched up at best or, at worst, super prone to shattering on impacts. It also helped me realize why phone makers are so fixated on making slim phones: they're planning for a case to double its size.

    8. Re:Glass back by green1 · · Score: 2

      But because they're so shiny and slippery, nobody ever ever ever sees the back of a phone every single phone has a case on it. I looked around the office the other day, I couldn't find a single phone that was not in a case. Couple of years ago that wasn't true, in fact the majority of phones were not in cases, what actually happened is as phones have gotten thinner they've actually gotten thicker because they now need cases. Prior to this fad phones could actually be held in your hand without jumping out onto the floor.

    9. Re:Glass back by green1 · · Score: 1

      And that's just it, a couple of years ago phones were actually thinner. No not the phone itself, that's thinner now, but a couple of years ago there were no cases on most phones so the end result is that the new phones are actually thicker because of the case. But you can't go without a case anymore because the new phones are slippery almost like a bar of soap.

    10. Re:Glass back by green1 · · Score: 1

      Right now they're working on expensive fragile instead of cheap fragile. Phones have not gotten more durable, they have not gotten more features, but they have definitely gotten way more expensive.

    11. Re:Glass back by green1 · · Score: 2

      If you find a more fragile one, don't tell any smartphone manufacturers, because I can guarantee it will be on the next model.

    12. Re:Glass back by AmiMoJo · · Score: 1

      They know that everyone uses a case. They make it look good in adverts and reviews, knowing that you will fit a case to protect it.

      The lack of wireless charging is a deal breaker for me. I had it, lost it when I switched to a Pixel XL and now really miss it. I used to be able to throw it into the car dock, have it start charging and launch Android Auto automatically. Really great for commuting.

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    13. Re:Glass back by GuB-42 · · Score: 1

      Plastic looks cheap. Because it is cheap.

      Technically, I can't think of a better material than polycarbonate for a phone body. But many people are ready to pay more when the material looks expensive. The usual comment is "I don't pay $800 for a plastic phone".

    14. Re:Glass back by green1 · · Score: 1

      A few years ago the most expensive phones on the market had some variety of plastic on the back of them. Take a look at the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 or the Galaxy S5 those phones had premium plastic backs and not a single person ever complained that they looked cheap. In fact there was a lot of comments when they finally got rid of those about how ridiculous it was that they were replacing them with metal and glass.

      Plastic can look cheap if you want it to, but then so can glass and metal. It's all about how you make it.

      It's actually very obvious that people don't have a problem with plastic backs on their phone. Because every single phone out there right now has a plastic back to it, I've never seen a case with a metal or glass back on it and every single phone these days is in a case. So what's the point of making the phone have a glass back and then covering it with plastic?

    15. Re:Glass back by igot4eyes · · Score: 1

      True, it's so annoying. I used to have the oneplus one and the back was a textured sandstone which was not slippery and meant I could go around with only a screen protector. I now have the oneplus 5 and have to have a case on the back (which totally negates all the thin design) and a front screen protector. Making phones more and more 'premium' with glass etc just means we will cheapen them with cases. Shame.

    16. Re:Glass back by GuB-42 · · Score: 1

      The Note4 was rather well received but it did have a metal frame. The same cannot be said of the S5, which the majority considered ugly (band-aid look...).
      Back then, Samsung was derided for its use of "cheap plastic". There are a few vocal proponents of plastic, like myself, but the truth is that the newer glass backed Samsungs were well received, there are the "good looking Samsungs".
      Any yeah, they are often (but not always) tucked inside the worst looking cases imaginable, but go figure... At least they look good in the store.

    17. Re:Glass back by Wrath0fb0b · · Score: 1

      At least two reasons: radio performance, inductive charging.

      With a phone supporting WiFi (MIMO), LTE (also MIMO), Bluetooth and NFC, cramming those antennas next to a metal back is non-ideal since it desensitizes them.

      And it's a total killer for inductive charging.

    18. Re:Glass back by mike449 · · Score: 1

      One of the reasons I bought OnePlus 2 was the rough texture of the back. Very easy to hold. I guess I'll skip this upgrade.

    19. Re:Glass back by Stormalong · · Score: 1

      This is fixable. I upgraded from a Nexus 5 to a Pixel 2 XL and also missed the wireless charging.

      Go buy a case an a wireless charging receiver. The receiver gets sandwiched between the case and the phone so you don't have to affix it using the double sided tape. Works great in my wireless desktop and car chargers.

    20. Re:Glass back by green1 · · Score: 1

      Even if you want wireless charging, that's no excuses to put glass on the back of the phone.

      Plastic is also compatible with wireless charging, is more durable, less expensive, less slippery, and with the right texture looks more premium (and doesn't even need a case)

    21. Re: Glass back by green1 · · Score: 1

      Also compatible with polycarbonate, plastic, leather, and many other materials that are all better in every single way than glass for the back of a phone.

    22. Re:Glass back by green1 · · Score: 1

      Did you even read my post? I didn't advocate for a metal back, in fact I stated that it was only marginally better than glass (i.e. still not good)
      I suggested going back to plastic. Plastic is better in every single way. It transmits wireless signals better than glass, it's more durable, it can easily be molded to have an actual texture to it, and with the right texture will look more premium, and won't require a case.

      Using glass or metal as the back for a phone is completely inexcusable.

    23. Re:Glass back by AmiMoJo · · Score: 1

      I did try a couple but none of them worked very well. Maybe I'll have another look.

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    24. Re:Glass back by lexman098 · · Score: 1

      The lack of wireless charging is a deal breaker for me. ... I used to be able to throw it into the car dock, have it start charging and launch Android Auto automatically.

      Would have to be plugged in (charging) for android auto anyway...

    25. Re:Glass back by AmiMoJo · · Score: 1

      It worked fine with wireless charging. It only maintained the battery level rather than charging it, buy that was okay.

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  5. No wireless... by TeknoHog · · Score: 1

    ...but a lot of nice hardware going unused in a device designed for media consumption and trend following. Lame.

    Seriously, where's the machine with remotely similar specs, plus some kind of a keyboard and software freedom?

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    1. Re:No wireless... by TeknoHog · · Score: 2

      What do those things have to do with the lack of wireless charging?

      It's a reference to a /. classic "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame."

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    2. Re:No wireless... by oakgrove · · Score: 1

      Hey there, newfren

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  6. "Never settle" by WaffleMonster · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No MicroSD slot.
    No removable battery.
    No IPS display.
    Ridiculous price.

    No sale.

    1. Re:"Never settle" by WaffleMonster · · Score: 1

      What's wrong with the display?

      Reliability and daylight visibility.

    2. Re:"Never settle" by AbRASiON · · Score: 1

      "No IPS display."

      What? It has a far better display?

    3. Re:"Never settle" by WaffleMonster · · Score: 1

      What? It has a far better display?

      Your opinion. I disagree.

    4. Re:"Never settle" by AbRASiON · · Score: 1

      The black on an OLED display is BLACK, when I use my OLED in bed at night, it's vastly superior to IPS.

      More power to you wanting one I suppose? I'd never go back. Doubly so when using a VR headset attachment.

    5. Re:"Never settle" by Shompol · · Score: 1
      • Data on MicroSD is not secured by phone password. The sooner it goes extinct the better.
      • 3300 mAh battery is an insult. Having said that, most people crack the screen before the battery is due for upgrade
      • It has AMOLED display, not LCD. IPS (in-plane switching) is a screen technology for liquid-crystal displays (LCDs).
      • Price is ridiculously low. Find me another unlocked AMOLED 6" phone that supports 71 LTE bands for $500 -- there are none.
    6. Re:"Never settle" by aleksei.zaitsev · · Score: 1

      how to vote for your post?

    7. Re:"Never settle" by 1080bogus · · Score: 1

      You forgot:

      No support after the next model is released.

      They could care less about people who own previous models once their new one is out.

      Never Again.

    8. Re:"Never settle" by CastrTroy · · Score: 1

      I don't care if my music and video library is encrypted. You can keep all the important data on your phone or not use an SD card if that's important to you. But having a cheaply upgradeable storage option is a huge feature that I wouldn't want to go without.

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    9. Re:"Never settle" by WaffleMonster · · Score: 1

      The black on an OLED display is BLACK, when I use my OLED in bed at night, it's vastly superior to IPS.

      Some are bothered by signature "IPS glow". I happen not to notice / care. For myself light sensor auto adjusting backlight brightness for environment makes display no better or worse in day vs night. At least I can see the damn screen outside when the sun is shining.

      More power to you wanting one I suppose? I'd never go back. Doubly so when using a VR headset attachment.

      Have Rift HMD (OLED) ordered day 1. Not impressed with god rays nor dirty sheens that follow you wherever you look in low light/contrast scenes. This only gets worse with use as elements drift further out of calibration. More than anything what I hate the most is this ridiculous black smearing from lag in powering up portions of display since otherwise "black" would be a very dim red color due to OLED leakage current. This royally sucks ass in my space game. Would take reddish black any day over inane smearing but Facebook apparently knows what I REALLY want better than I do. Don't ever buy an HMD from Facebook. Just don't.

      Oculus GO is yet another shitty mobile phone-esq 3DOF experience complete with underpowered mobile GPU and drumroll... an LCD display. Nothing that interests me in the slightest however everyone who has tried both think GO LCD display is much better than Rifts.

    10. Re:"Never settle" by WaffleMonster · · Score: 1

      Data on MicroSD is not secured by phone password. The sooner it goes extinct the better.

      Factually incorrect, try again later.

      3300 mAh battery is an insult. Having said that, most people crack the screen before the battery is due for upgrade

      Since when is 3300 mAh an "insult"? It's at the top of the range of flagship phones from all major competitors. It's way more than iPhone X that costs at least twice as much and is about the same size.

      Myth batteries outlast devices is an amusing one given market for battery replacement services and aftermarket batteries.

      It has AMOLED display, not LCD. IPS (in-plane switching) is a screen technology for liquid-crystal displays (LCDs).

      This is common knowledge. I want an IPS (LCD) display.

      OLED displays are worse than LCD in the areas of reliability and daylight visibility. OLED isn't worth it to me.

      Price is ridiculously low. Find me another unlocked AMOLED 6" phone that supports 71 LTE bands for $500

      71 is a band not the number of bands supported. There are no 71 band LTE phones available from anyone at any price.

      The price *IS* ridiculous for a cell phone period. You are free to disagree with me and buy one. I won't.

    11. Re:"Never settle" by lexman098 · · Score: 1

      The black on an OLED display is BLACK

      Except in direct sunlight or at an angle at which point it reflects a certain greenish hue even when the screen is off. So much for the deep blacks.

      when I use my OLED in bed at night, it's vastly superior to IPS.

      At night your brightness would be on basically minimum at which point a good LCD will get pretty much completely black as well. LCDs are better than people give them credit for. Far too much hype over OLEDs which are far from perfect.

  7. This is the deal breaker for me... by bogaboga · · Score: 2

    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!

    1. Re:This is the deal breaker for me... by thegarbz · · Score: 1

      I thought shattered glass was a status symbol. With this you can have twice the status of an iPhone.

  8. 1Gbps... by Ecuador · · Score: 1

    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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    1. Re:1Gbps... by Trogre · · Score: 1

      Monthly... data... allocation?

      We're taking WiFi here not 4G Mobile Data, right?

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  9. Are they trustworthy? by amorsen · · Score: 3, Informative

    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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  10. Re: slashvertisement by mSparks43 · · Score: 1

    another goliath chunk of plastic that won't fit in your pocket, once upon a time it was all about the miniturisation, seems we've passed that now, pretty soon they'll be trying to convince us we need a full atx form factor for our mobile devices.... end of the smart phone is upon us ladies and gents.

  11. OnePlus 6, or simply the "Seven." by yo303 · · Score: 2

    Personally I'll wait for the TwoTimes 4, or the "Eight." Or even the ThreeToThePowerOf 3, the "Nine."

    1. Re:OnePlus 6, or simply the "Seven." by yo303 · · Score: 1

      Gah. I meant the "Twenty-seven."

  12. Re: slashvertisement by TheEyes · · Score: 1

    The actual size of the phone is no larger than the Oneplus 5 or 5t; it just has a larger screen because bezels are being replaced by the notch.

    I mean, I'm not buying from Oneplus 6 anyway, but that's because the company already got caught preloading spyware into phones, not because the phone's too big or some other nonsense.

  13. not needed by aleksei.zaitsev · · Score: 1

    500+EUR and 3300 battery? thanks - not needed

  14. There is no reason to wireless anything! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    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.
    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, ... with no way to update the firmware.

    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.

  15. Re: slashvertisement by Oswald+McWeany · · Score: 1

    The actual size of the phone is no larger than the Oneplus 5 or 5t; it just has a larger screen because bezels are being replaced by the notch.

    I mean, I'm not buying from Oneplus 6 anyway, but that's because the company already got caught preloading spyware into phones, not because the phone's too big or some other nonsense.

    It may have a dreaded Notch and spyware, but this is a huge advancement in technology. Having a headphone jack is unheard of in this day and age. I would like to credit OnePlus for their technical genius; I hope the research they developed in creating this phone will help guide other less sophisticated phone makers to be able to duplicate this magnificent feet.

    Truly a feet of engineering.

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  16. The ideal phone for your average NBA player by OneHundredAndTen · · Score: 1

    Everybody else will look like a dork with this device to their ear.

  17. How good is the assistant in Android 8+? by ilsaloving · · Score: 1

    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?

  18. Re: slashvertisement by mSparks43 · · Score: 1

    no worse than the others is hardly disproof of the point. I was on the samsung s8, I've sold it and gone back to the s6 due to the size difference and no real functionality difference, and I'm never buying another phone longer than 140mm including case, which rules out every so called flagship aka brick on the market atm.

  19. Head 'em up! Move 'em out! by Medievalist · · Score: 1

    The standard jeans pocket is designed to hold 5.25" x 5.25" floppy,

    Certainly! As we all know, Levi Strauss roped vast herds of 5¼ floppies in the Great Magnetic Media drives of the 1870s.

  20. Headphone jack? by xenobyte · · Score: 1

    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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