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OnePlus One

i have invites!

At last i have 3 invites to share. available from today. PM me if needed.
 
Sequel to 2014′s most exciting Android phone detailed in big leak
http://www.businessinsider.com/oneplus-2-details-release-price-2014-11

OnePlus Two? OnePlus One 2?

We still don’t know what the phone will be called, but this new report claims it will be even more customizable than the first-generation model. OnePlus had trouble launching all of the cool case backs it promised early on, but rumor now has it that the second-generation version will deliver where the first version fell short.

Where pricing is concerned, we might be looking at a slightly higher price tag than the OnePlus One, which starts at $299. Business Insider says the phone will still be cheaper than most popular premium smartphones off contract, but says it will “cost less than $500,” which doesn’t bode well for maintaining the current $299 price point.

Finally, the blog’s source says there will be some “surprises in store when it comes to hardware.” This makes it sound like a OnePlus executive is planting the story, which makes the details contained within the report even more promising, but no specifics on those “surprises” were offered.

The second-generation version of the OnePlus One will likely debut sometime this Spring
 
Tig Bitties said:
Sequel to 2014′s most exciting Android phone detailed in big leak
http://www.businessinsider.com/oneplus-2-details-release-price-2014-11

OnePlus Two? OnePlus One 2?

We still don’t know what the phone will be called, but this new report claims it will be even more customizable than the first-generation model. OnePlus had trouble launching all of the cool case backs it promised early on, but rumor now has it that the second-generation version will deliver where the first version fell short.

Where pricing is concerned, we might be looking at a slightly higher price tag than the OnePlus One, which starts at $299. Business Insider says the phone will still be cheaper than most popular premium smartphones off contract, but says it will “cost less than $500,” which doesn’t bode well for maintaining the current $299 price point.

Finally, the blog’s source says there will be some “surprises in store when it comes to hardware.” This makes it sound like a OnePlus executive is planting the story, which makes the details contained within the report even more promising, but no specifics on those “surprises” were offered.

The second-generation version of the OnePlus One will likely debut sometime this Spring
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That probably means $449. I also remember them saying it will be a smaller phone. Maybe in the 5" > realm.
 
JH- said:
Anandtech review is up.
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From a person who says smaller OPO is way too large while larger iphone 6+ does it well.

Iphone 6+
"While I’ve already discussed the design of the iPhone 6, it’s important to see whether the same design translates to the iPhone 6 Plus. To this end, the iPhone 6 Plus does well. While the angular design of the iPhone 5 line would have looked and felt enormous in the hand, the shape is quite similar to the iPad line and is similarly comfortable in the hand, although the rounded edge really differentiates it, as does the control scheme."


Opo
" First, the size is definitely too much to handle... The angular corners of the OnePlus One combined with its larger footprint makes for a phone that is almost impossible to comfortably use with one hand. ... Unfortunately, this phone is just far too big for one-handed use. If the LG G3 was on the edge of one-handed usability, this goes just a step further. The larger bezels and more angular shape of the OnePlus One make it extremely difficult to use with one hand, and is therefore best compared against phablets."

i-cdn.phonearena.com/images/article...-its-5.5-inch-iPhone-6-to-the-Plus-family.jpg

Same person tested the phone on the balanced mode rather than on performance mode.

http://images.anandtech.com/doci/8242/Screenshot_2014-11-17-04-18-04.png

The review is nice though, tells alot about features but the reviewer has odd opinions. For example that you can change many options in settings if you want and choose between settings and it is somehow bad thing. I wonder does the reviewer even understand Cyanogen and the phone concept. When physically larger iphone6+ is well-designed, smaller OPO is way too large. Excuse me?

Can you take that guy seriously?
 
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For me, I enjoy the scientific nature of the battery tests. A lot of the other websites have tests that are not repeatable. They simply use the phone over a period of time and report on their findings. Yes, I know that Anandtech tests for the most part do not reflect real world usage. They give us a common baseline.

For the most part I feel like things such as comfort in the hand or interactions with software are completely subjective on a person by person basis. I actually skip over those parts of the reviews. There is no excuse to keep a phone that doesn't feel good to you based on something subjective a reviewer said. I can see how differing subjective opinions over similar sized phones could give a bad impression though.
 
If anyone is interested, for Black Friday and all weekend you can go to the website and buy the phone outright. No invite.
 

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Its nice to see that the 16GB is now available for $299.
 
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Maybe OnePlus used Cyanogen just to get a brand name OS to help market and sell the OnePlus One originally ? Now that the phone is out, and selling more than they can produce, maybe OPO got cocky and said, hey we don't need CM to sell for us, we can do it ourselves in house now ?

If it went down like that, I feel bad for Cyanogen team.

I was under the wrong impression on the OPO when it was first announced long time ago. I thought Steve K. of Cyanogen was making a break to produce a phone of his own by a brand new company he partnered up with, and would run his CM ROM. And it would be a foundation of a new hardware company to produce the phone + Steve's CM ? Guess it's not like that.
 
Tig Bitties said:
Maybe OnePlus used Cyanogen just to get a brand name OS to help market and sell the OnePlus One originally ? Now that the phone is out, and selling more than they can produce, maybe OPO got cocky and said, hey we don't need CM to sell for us, we can do it ourselves in house now ?



If it went down like that, I feel bad for Cyanogen team.



I was under the wrong impression on the OPO when it was first announced long time ago. I thought Steve K. of Cyanogen was making a break to produce a phone of his own by a brand new company he partnered up with, and would run his CM ROM. And it would be a foundation of a new hardware company to produce the phone + Steve's CM ? Guess it's not like that.
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Maybe they should look into pure Android. That would nice!
 
Vegaspilot said:
If anyone is interested, for Black Friday and all weekend you can go to the website and buy the phone outright. No invite.
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They took so long to get to a point where you could just buy it from them, that I'm no longer interested. I've already gone in a different direction, as I'm sure many other people have as well. They took their customers for granted.
 
So does this mean no official CM12S for the 1+1 coming in Jan / Feb, like originally promised, 90 days after Google released Lollipop ?
 
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