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Re: OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe

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Post by menaerus »

troyvit wrote: post #127
menaerus wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

After two years your battery will be almost unusable so genuinely it doesn't matter. My only issue with oneplus phones, and I owned several of them already, is that they are running incredibly hot on normal usage, and battery capacity detoriates quickly over time. They do have a great sleek UI and great hardware, not to mention fantastic supercharging capabilities which is a life saver sometimes, but all under the bi…

> After two years your battery will be almost unusable so genuinely it doesn't matter. Is this a new thing with newer OnePlus phones? We've had a OnePlus 7 and OnePlus 8 in our house for years and their batteries still work fine.

I had a similar issue with OnePlus 7 but not at this scale. It lasted me for 3, 3.5 years. I think this is becoming a problem more increasingly because of a beefier and beefier hardware that is put into these phones, and the heat dissipation problem hence becomes larger and larger problem which doesn't get automagically solved. I think that the best bet today is to take one with "subpar" CPU and larger battery and not so crazy supercharging capabilities

Re: OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe

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Post by surgical_fire »

menaerus wrote: post #113
twiss wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Support period != warranty period. The OnePlus 15 will get 4 years of Android updates and 6 years of security patches.

After two years your battery will be almost unusable so genuinely it doesn't matter. My only issue with oneplus phones, and I owned several of them already, is that they are running incredibly hot on normal usage, and battery capacity detoriates quickly over time. They do have a great sleek UI and great hardware, not to mention fantastic supercharging capabilities which is a life saver sometimes, but all under the bi…

> After two years your battery will be almost unusable so genuinely it doesn't matter.

My Nord 2T battery is still perfectly fine after 4 years.

I have no idea what the hell you're talking about.

Re: OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe

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Post by petu »

maxerickson wrote: post #37
mellosouls wrote: post #26

Editorialised! No new products, not halts operations. Please be more careful. OnePlus has decided to conclude new product rollouts in Europe and North America. The difference matters for those of us on OnePlus devices: Though we will no longer launch new products in Europe, our commitment to you remains unchanged. Backed by OPPO, existing OnePlus devices will continue to receive scheduled software updates and securit…

Looks like OnePlus and OPPO are different companies. Shared ownership, but different companies.

As other commenter said OnePlus is subsidiary of Oppo. Over past few years they were loosing autonomy / reusing more and more work by Oppo.

If you're worried about the firmware, then current day OxygenOS is just rebadged ColorOS. They just wont be pretending it's different now.

Only question/risk I see is Oppo trying to kill bootloader unlocking with an update.

Re: OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe

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Post by limagnolia »

mellosouls wrote: post #26

Editorialised! No new products, not halts operations. Please be more careful. OnePlus has decided to conclude new product rollouts in Europe and North America. The difference matters for those of us on OnePlus devices: Though we will no longer launch new products in Europe, our commitment to you remains unchanged. Backed by OPPO, existing OnePlus devices will continue to receive scheduled software updates and securit…

Curiosly, they only say this to their European customers. It isn't clear that they plan to continue supporting North American customers.

Either way, eventually operations will halt, because existing products will be out of their update commitments.

Headline would be more accurate if it said "is winding down".

Re: OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe

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Post by driverdan »

amarant wrote: post #47
bearjaws wrote: post #12

When they increased prices to $900 for roughly the same quality as Samsung it was doomed. The OnePlus 7 was such an amazing phone and honestly I remember buying a Pixel after it and realizing how crappy Tensor was and well optimized OnePlus was.

I had the exact opposite experience. I replaced my pixel 1 with a OnePlus 8t and I've been kicking myself ever since for not going with a new pixel. This phone is awful! My original pixel was so much better than the several years newer 8t. I absolutely long for the day I can finally, in good conscience, replace this piece of trash with a new pixel phone. I think the day is near. Finally.

Besides a mix of older Pixels and other phones, in the past few years I went OnePlus 8, Pixel 8 Pro, and currently OnePlus 13. I was completely underwhelmed by the 8 Pro. If felt like a marginal improvement over the OnePlus 8 for a premium price. The back cracked, water got in, and it stopped working. The OnePlus 13 feels like a significantly better phone in every way.

Re: OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe

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Post by colordrops »

menaerus wrote: post #113
twiss wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Support period != warranty period. The OnePlus 15 will get 4 years of Android updates and 6 years of security patches.

After two years your battery will be almost unusable so genuinely it doesn't matter. My only issue with oneplus phones, and I owned several of them already, is that they are running incredibly hot on normal usage, and battery capacity detoriates quickly over time. They do have a great sleek UI and great hardware, not to mention fantastic supercharging capabilities which is a life saver sometimes, but all under the bi…

Are you all making sure to set charge limits at night?

Re: OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe

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Post by colordrops »

driverdan wrote: post #140
pta2002 wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google’s phones are pretty good nowadays, I feel like they carry that ethos more than modern OnePlus phones anyway. Plus they can be unlocked trivially, which is officially supported, and you can install GrapheneOS on them.

I just got a new phone a month ago. I wanted a Pixel so I could run GrapheneOS. After researching the hardware I ended up with a OnePlus 13. Google's hardware is far behind, buggy, and overpriced.

I have a OnePlus 13. Best hardware ever. Running lineage with microg + magisk and use nix on top of termux to install stuff using sudo, including AI harnesses - it's my portable AI workstation now.
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