They were one of the brands with unlockable bootloaders and slide switches for mute. Unfortunately the Oppo takeover didn't preserve either. Written on a OnePlus 8 Pro.
This is written on a OnePlus 13 with a slider running lineage os. Amazing phone.
OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe
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Re: OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe
#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
It doesn't make sense because OnePlus is much more known in the West than either Oppo, Vivo or Realme. OnePlus also just sounds like more of a Western brand. It would have made much more sense to kill those other brands in the West and unify everything under the OnePlus banner.
To my ears, OnePlus sounds like a low-quality western brand. Along the lines of "Best Value" or "Farmer's Choice"
And Apple sounds like a fruit. The point is they spent big marketing dollars to make the brand not sound low quality anymore.
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#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hmm my OnePlus 12 is 26 months old and battery is still phenomenal. I charge it to 80% and easily get a day of use, plugging in each night at 30-40%. I have not experienced it running hot yet. I did not have battery issues with my OnePlus 7 Pro or OnePlus 9 Pro either. The 7 Pro gave me 3 days of battery! (I upgraded for camera improvements and faster screen refresh rate.)
My last one was 10 pro and battery is essentially dead after 2.5 years of usage. Can't make half of a day, literally unusable, and I'm not a big phone user. Case is made of some really good material, which feels very premium, but runs son fckn hot that you can't hold it in your hands anymore, this is especially true during hot summers, and it got only worse with the last major OS update. This is a heat dissipation is…
> it seems that it still runs hot according to some reviews I've seen on the yt.
Never noticed it being even warm in normal use, consistently cold.
> this is especially true during hot summers
Sounds like not a phone problem -- very high screen brightness and/or direct sun would make any phone hot.
Re: OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe
#154What a shame, the OnePlus 15 is an excellent phone, especially due to one of the longest battery lives of any I've seen recently, easily lasting 2 days without charging and even acts as a powerbank for reverse charging my wireless earbuds.
I guess I'll have to import Chinese phones now for the US, that's where the innovation is rather than the Apple Samsung duopoly currently present in the US.
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#155Earlier 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…
My iPhones' batteries have all lasted a minimum of 5 years.
Having said that, my Nokia E71 and Communicator batteries are still usable after 20+ years.
Re: OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe
#156I had a OnePlus 6 before switching to iphones. Great device.
But the company was doomed the moment they started raising prices to Samsung levels. Lost any reason to buy them.
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#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree, title should have been done a lot better than that. I think we can read between the lines of the PR speak, though. That’s the rosiest possible way to put this news. No new devices, support during warranty periods, they’re going to basically stop existing within a year or two.
Support period != warranty period. The OnePlus 15 will get 4 years of Android updates and 6 years of security patches.
Phone != The OS
Re: OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe
#158OnePlus is one of the saddest stories out there. It was the hacker's choice for a while. It was originally the "Never Settle" phone that ran mostly stock android, had specs maxxed out, price was great, and bootloader was unlocked plus they provided factory images. Those were all reasons I bought a lot of OnePlus phones in the early years.
Then they flushed nearly all of it down the toilet. The day they stopped posting factory images was the day I saw the writing on the wall. Such a shame.
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#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
The demand for such phones is very low.
You're likely right but i think if you had to fail at least fail for something meaningful. It was crazy thinking it could work anyway, same for makers like Nothing, i feel their fate is written in stone, at least try something really different instead of gimmicks.
Nowhere close to what you asked, but Nothing already seems to be one of the most "open" devices today.
That's for simple fact of having offline/unsigned EDL (Qualcomm's Emergency DownLoad) and files for it getting consistently "leaked". So at least exploratory work on custom ROMs should never leave you with a irrecoverable brick.
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#160Earlier 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.
But a pixel is quite a bit more expensive no? At that point you can consider an iPhone?
I got a pixel 10 for 350 a few weeks ago.