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OnePlus One

animalx said:
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.
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Judging by other websites, blogs and so on, I think you are wrong about many have as well. Most were waiting on the Nexus 6 to be in the same price range as the OPO, and it wasn't. The Nexus 6 is nice and all, but a $300 premium over the OPO, hmm! Plus the OPO is cheaper than the 2nd Gen Moto X.

Which phone did you move on to?
 
The price and specs of the OPO are 100% on point, but the touch sensitivity issues and dreadful customer support are holding them back immensely.
 
I was initially excited when the OPO was released, but gradually lost interest due to their ongoing use of the invite system.

At a certain point, I decided to just wait for the Nexus 6. However, once the N6 was announced, the price sent me back to the OPO. I ended up just getting an invite on eBay and buying the OPO.

I've had the OPO for a couple of weeks now and it has been great, a big improvement over my old Nexus 4. I can't think of a better 'bang for your buck' phone right now than the OPO 64 GB.
 
emeraldringer said:
I was initially excited when the OPO was released, but gradually lost interest due to their ongoing use of the invite system.

At a certain point, I decided to just wait for the Nexus 6. However, once the N6 was announced, the price sent me back to the OPO. I ended up just getting an invite on eBay and buying the OPO.

I've had the OPO for a couple of weeks now and it has been great, a big improvement over my old Nexus 4. I can't think of a better 'bang for your buck' phone right now than the OPO 64 GB.
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I agree 100%. But, the fact that Cyangonemod 12 development is taking too long bothers me a little bit. I mean, it's been more than a month. What is taking so long?
 
Cyanogen will continue to support the OnePlus One
http://www.androidauthority.com/cyanogen-will-continue-support-oneplus-one-572338/

We are proud of the work we did on the OnePlus One. Through our collaboration with OnePlus, we demonstrated the power of strong hardware and software tuned for exceptional performance. To clarify misinformation out there, the OnePlus One will get OTA firmware updates for all global devices, including global devices for our users in India. Rather than have misinformation continue to circulate out there, we felt it important to bring this matter to rest.
 
Just got an email stating that this phone is available for purchase without an invite.
 
jamezr said:
agreed I am big CM fan........but they did not play fair with OPO. There is going to be some backlash because of it.
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It could actually make people really want to support OPO. They are working on their own ROM, so I would think they will dump CM for the OPO 2
 
mattopotamus said:
It could actually make people really want to support OPO. They are working on their own ROM, so I would think they will dump CM for the OPO 2
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that would be great. Would be nice to see OPO succeed and flourish with the OPO2. Maybe do away with invites now that they have the manufacturing process sorted out.
 
Is official CM12S still coming in Jan / Feb ?

A Few months ago, OPO and Cyanogen, said 90 days after the official Lollipop release from Google, the OnePlus One OS would get the big Lollipop date. So that puts it end of Jan / early Feb. But is that still on track of happening ?

But...with the all the news lately of Cyanogen and OPO not getting along, and the whole India deal, etc...

What will OPO official release as far as the Lollipop update ? Will there still be a CM12S made specific for the OnePlus by Cyanogen ? Or will OPO just release their in house Lollipop ROM they made themselves without CM ?
 
mattopotamus said:
If you read that article, CM did them dirty. I hope they fail b.c of that.
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jamezr said:
agreed I am big CM fan........but they did not play fair with OPO. There is going to be some backlash because of it.
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One Plus are the masters of spin... I wonder if there is & has been for some time a genuine strain between the One Plus team and Cyanogen. Given the amount of proverbial BS and inability to answer a straight question that there marketing team have perfected - maybe Cyanogen found the relationship with One Plus was not as they had envisioned it when agreeing to supply them with the OS. Also who knows what the financial agreement was and if those payments have been made by One Plus to Cyanogen. Given the amount of spin they had all the way up to November, not releasing sales figures, pretending to ramp up production and selling out in China - only to discover then finally that only 500,000 units had been sold - maybe they have missed all their promised targets for Cyanogen Mod team too; that they decided to partner up with a proper distributor instead. I'm sure the deal with micromax will shift more units quicker than One Plus have done in the months since launch.

We definitely are not seeing the full picture, of that I have no doubt. Do not for 1 second think one plus are a victim - that's exactly what they want you to think.........
 
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Never gone among with OPO and their PR machine. As a resident in China they've never sold out here or come close to that.

The 16gb has always been on open sale. The 64gb Sandstone had always been available on bi-weekly 'flash' sales which are nowhere near as 'flash' as they'd like you to believe. I've bought three between August and October. This remains the case. Heck, I can order the super 'limited/rare/sought after' bamboo edition right now if I wanted to. It's on open sale and has been since they emailed me about the 'time limited low stock' availability last week.

Basically few people appear to know about it, or do know about it and just don't want it. There are at least 4-5 similarly priced/specced options here so demand is nothing like what the rest of the world. All that means they could easily satisfy more non-Chinese orders if they wanted to. But they choose not to.

Isn't it strange that it's supposedly ultra rare in China, needs an invite system elsewhere, but they can still prep a launch in India? They have capacity alright but are selectively controlling the supply chain to various markets.

It's sad how the media fell for, and continually report, a 'shortage'. OPO don't have a marketing budget because they've got the non-Chinese press in the palm of their hands. And all those AMAs are laughable - everyone drinking the kool-aid.

As for CM doing the dirty on OPO, I doubt CM appreciated the finger pointing from the yellow band as fixable via software.

OPO no doubt want to use CM to get what they want and vice versa. It's just a case of who drops who first rather than if. Business is business. CM will find other HW makers and OPO will kick or their own ROM.

Sadly, given the success of their marketing ploy it's gonna be same again if they do another cost-price OP2. However, of they do a Nexus 6 and add margin, I can see an invite system and sales heading the same way as the Titanic.
 
gotluck said:
Does anyone want an opo without CM?

Like from a consumers perspective.
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I'd take one with stock Lollipop, especially if it was promised timely updates, basically like a GPE. Everything I've read (which admittedly isn't a ton) point to it being very good hardware.
 
tbayrgs said:
I'd take one with stock Lollipop, especially if it was promised timely updates, basically like a GPE. Everything I've read (which admittedly isn't a ton) point to it being very good hardware.
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That would be awesome, but I just can't see it happening. I have no evidence but i just have to think they will go custom with something like MIUI / Xaiomi

For me, a great deal of my interest in oneplus was due to CM, so I'm being a negative Nancy. Thought I read they were already doing some nonstock android version for their India phones, so I feel like some precedence is there, could be wrong have only been casually following this saga.
 
tbayrgs said:
I'd take one with stock Lollipop, especially if it was promised timely updates, basically like a GPE. Everything I've read (which admittedly isn't a ton) point to it being very good hardware.
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That is my thoughts as well. Why not just go pure Android L? That would seem to solve their problems. Let Google handle all the updates. Big time win for OPO.
 
jamezr said:
That is my thoughts as well. Why not just go pure Android L? That would seem to solve their problems. Let Google handle all the updates. Big time win for OPO.
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Don't think OPO are recognised as a Google partner OEM. Ditto with CM. They all get their stuff after AOSP is released publicly.
 
Kariya said:
Don't think OPO are recognised as a Google partner OEM. Ditto with CM. They all get their stuff after AOSP is released publicly.
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Thanks! I did not know that. I wonder how hard it would be to become an OEM partner and get pure stock Android. It would be a big selling point for them.
 
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