Today OnePlus itself revealed a tiny bit about its next smartphone in the OnePlus 6. This device is aimed at replicating the successes of its predecessors in functionality, including speedy performance and speedy battery charging. As such, it's no major surprise to see the first part of this teaser from OnePlus. The rest we've gathered up for a more complete picture.
OnePlus really wants you to believe in the notch as much as it does. There is no longer any question that the OnePlus 6 is going to have one, so the company’s top brass are more focused on damage control. Or rather, explaining why they wholeheartedly embraced such a contentious feature. Company co-founder Carl Pei already explained the benefits of the notch, now CEO Pete Lau is defending it from a different angle. It’s not that they went out searching for a notch. They were searching for the best screen available and it just so happened to come with a notch.
The OnePlus 6 is going to have a notch. That’s no longer an open question, especially after OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei admitted as much. But he was quick to add how it’s not simply just to copy Apple but for practical benefit as well. It just so happen that Apple got that idea first. He also notes that the OnePlus 6 will still have a chin and a headphone jack, two things that no iPhone will ever have again.
Leaks today show the OnePlus 6 to come in more than one material with a notch'ed display design. This might well be the non-T OnePlus phone users have been waiting for - if not for the company's abandonment of their low-end price-destructor attitude a couple years ago. Now it's just OnePlus trying to be Apple, coming with a OnePlus 6 with the frontside of an iPhone X.
It should come as no surprise to OnePlus fans that we're hearing more details on their next smartphone model, the OnePlus 6; after all, the company is almost literally on a six-month update cycle with its subsequent "T" upgrades. But that's the situation we find ourselves in today, as a set of specs for the OnePlus 6 have leaked, setting expectations for the device that will probably debut before summer.
When you look at the latest leak of the OnePlus 6, you'll think - wow, but that does look familiar, familiar indeed. The device in the leak seems to work with a display with a notch at the top, and around back it has a pill-shaped arrangement of cameras (two cameras, as it were.) On the back is a fingerprint scanner and an LED flash, as well. If this design blows anyone's mind, I'd ask them how they've so successfully lived under a rock for the past half-year.
The reviews have finally come out and, as you might have expected (or not), the Galaxy S9 has pretty much set the pace of smartphones, especially Android ones, for the rest of the year. But, of course, that doesn’t mean it will be the premium Android phone of 2018. We’ve only just begun and there are lots more coming in the months to come. So before you settle your mind or wallet on the Galaxy S9 or S9+, take a quick peek at what is yet to come in the next month or two.
OnePlus has always been praised for putting high-end features in an affordable product. It hasn’t always been at the forefront of embracing new technologies and trends, however. It won’t do wireless charging, for example, and still won’t raise its screen resolution. With the OnePlus 6, however, it might be increasing that last one a bit, but not jumping to QHD yet. Instead, it will be adopting a 19:9 aspect ratio, which is slightly higher than the now common 18:9 screens. And that extra space will be used for, you guessed it, a notch.
For all the praise surrounding last year's OnePlus 5 and the newer OnePlus 5T, the phones have been missing one important feature, a surprise considering how they're billed as alternate Android flagships: the ability to stream HD video content from a number of sources, namely Netflix. Fortunately, OnePlus has just announced an update to the glaring issue, but it requires an unorthodox process: owners need to physically mail the phone in.
MWC 2018 is almost upon us and with it new flagship smartphones. The Galaxy S9, the 2018 LG V30, the Huawei Mate P20, and more will most likely hog the spotlight, one way or another, and it might be too easy to think that these are the best that the Android world has to offer. Or that you have to pay premium to get the best stuff. Fortunately, there are some new upstarts, and one still young company, that is giving the big boys a run for their money. We look at the OnePlus 5T, the Essential PH-1, and the Razer Phone to see which of these three rebels might be worth your money and dethrone the smartphone kings.
A Lava Red OnePlus 5T special edition smartphone was introduced by OnePlus this morning in celebration of Valentine's Day. The oncoming love-centric holiday will summon more than one red colored smartphone this year, of that you can be sure. For now, we've got a few that were made well in advance and a single OnePlus that'll MAYBE come in time for the holiday itself, if you're super lucky.
Friday a report was released about a clipboard issue in OnePlus smartphones - today it's been fixed and clarified. The first report cites Elliot Anderson, whose known for digging up data in smartphone apps. His report was meant to be a first investigation, but was reported as a major privacy invasion - which we've been on alert for in OnePlus devices before. Turns out this situation wasn't anything to get too pumped up about.