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China's OnePlus, Backed by Qualcomm and T-Mobile, Launches OnePlus 6T Smartphone in US (reuters.com)
OnePlus, a five-year old Chinese smartphone company whose high-end products are little known outside a tech-savvy niche is entering the U.S. market on Monday with the backing of two key local allies: chipmaking giant Qualcomm and mobile operator T-Mobile. Reuters reports: The foray by Shenzhen-based OnePlus comes after U.S. mobile carriers AT&T and Verizon this year backed away from plans to work with China's Huawei on high-end phones in face of pressure from the U.S. government, which considers Huawei a security risk. But the OnePlus alliance, to be announced today in New York, shows how many U.S.-China business relationships, including those involving the most advanced technologies, are marching ahead despite the U.S. China trade war. OnePlus has quietly become the No. 3 client for Qualcomm's most expensive mobile phone chips, behind Samsung and LG Electronics, according to data from market researcher Canalys.
The phone to be unveiled Monday, called the 6T, will sell for a price of $549 (for the base model, which offers 6GB of RAM and 128GB of internal storage) but packs features that are typically present only in pricier handsets. Xiaomi, a Chinese rival that also focuses on feature-packed phones at bargain prices, has said it plans to launch in the U.S. next year, but did not respond to a request for comment on whether those plans are still in place. The OnePlus 6T will laregely offer the same specs as its predecessor -- the OnePlus 6, which was launched earlier this year. Some of the key changes include a smaller notch on the front display and a built-in fingerprint scanner that is embedded in it. Full specs and review here.
The phone to be unveiled Monday, called the 6T, will sell for a price of $549 (for the base model, which offers 6GB of RAM and 128GB of internal storage) but packs features that are typically present only in pricier handsets. Xiaomi, a Chinese rival that also focuses on feature-packed phones at bargain prices, has said it plans to launch in the U.S. next year, but did not respond to a request for comment on whether those plans are still in place. The OnePlus 6T will laregely offer the same specs as its predecessor -- the OnePlus 6, which was launched earlier this year. Some of the key changes include a smaller notch on the front display and a built-in fingerprint scanner that is embedded in it. Full specs and review here.
All the time it has been doing this oneplus says "will fix". NEVER HAS FIXED!
No headphone.
No expandable storage.
No removeable battery.
But you can load it up with cameras and shite I don't want.
No sale.
Live 24/7 security monitoring of all your capitalist yankee calls is provided free of charge for an unlimited time, courtesy of Glorious Leader Xi Jinping.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Any phone that has a notch I will always avoid.
"The phone...will sell for a price above $500 but packs features that are typically present only in pricier handsets."
At first I thought to myself, "Are they insane? $500 isn't some bargain."
Then I went and looked at the MSRPs of smartphones, and was quickly reminded why it makes little sense to play that game. Blows me away what smartphone junkies will spend on hardware these days.
Great Job by Oneplus people.
Removal of the 3.5mm jack. No 3.5mm jack, no sale. I was looking forward to this phone, but went with Note 9 instead. No regrets
The OnePlus 6T will largely offer the same specs as its predecessor -- the OnePlus 6, which was launched earlier this year. Some of the key changes include a smaller notch on the front display and a built-in fingerprint scanner that is embedded in it.
The 6 had a headphone jack, and the 6T doesn't. That's worth mentioning in TFS (if not the headline).
Try and find a phone with a nice, consistently locatable, difficult to accidentally press, home button (bonus if finger sensor in it)
combined with,...
a flat display
and a headphone jack.
That isn't an old model, a modern, powerful one. Try to find one, it no longer exists.
I'll deal without the home button but this no headphone + curved trend, those 2 I will not abide by, it's a ridiculous case of the manufacturers copying everyone else, as usual. No choice, just all same-phones.
Whatever happened to the Chinese spy chip? The 6 pin chip that somehow had network sniffing access and ability to modify the OS to be writable. Everyone in the cloud OS land was supposed to have been tipped off and yet kept silent. The one reported by Bloomberg. It didn't quite ring true, and it seems to have been quietly 'forgotten'/disavowed.
Let me guess, Oracle planted the story to try to undermine Amazon's government cloud services bid.
If a candidate for it hasn't been found, then instead we need to examine Bloombergs story reporting. They were fed a story and it was designed to attack a very specific company. Now owned by Amazon, at a time when Amazon are the only serious bidder for government cloud services.
My guess, it was Oracle that fed Bloomberg the story.
That makes sense, Oracle claiming the servers from a company that Amazon bought are all loaded with Chinese spyware. It's a very Oracle thing to do. A quick search of the article and Oracle are not mentioned as one of the major companies.....
Oracle.
At least the way Huawei did it on the phone I'm using, I have a fingerprint sensor on the back that's very fast and so easy to use that I can accidentally unlock my phone in pulling it out of my pocket.
I can also use it as a command or launcher button with 3 actions - click for App A (e.g. notes), double-click for App B (e.g. Google Pay), hold for Action C (toggling the camera LED as a flashlight). I can even do that last without even unlocking the phone. That is all incredibly convenient.
fencepost
just a little off
Can we please stop with this stupid "trade war" rhetoric? We're just making small adjustments to tariff schedules. If we were to have a real, honest to goodness trade war with China, they would already own us.
YES! Finally, you don't have to spend $$$ to get Chinese spyware. Now everyone can be part of the problem. All of your information can be recorded and you can be operated like a bot.
The cloud. AKA, somebody else's computer. If you don't understand the issue, just vote Trump. You already want to make it easy.
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My kid has had a OnePlus 3T for a long time and I was quite impressed with it. However, we got tired of headphones being lost/broken/failing on their own so we just found $4 wired headphones from Amazon that everyone likes and order them in bulk. OnePlus 6T no longer has a headphone port which would give us issues with losing dongles. We now all have Note 9's and we are all quite happy with them, and being able to add storage is a nice benefit.
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The 6 had a headphone jack, and the 6T doesn't. That's worth mentioning in TFS (if not the headline).
Why was this modded redundant?
Hell if I know. The missing feature was given proper attention (ableit with an attempted postive spin) when it was announced.