OnePlus 5T Featuring 6-inch AMOLED Display, 3.5mm Headphone Jack Launched (wired.com) 54
Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus, which has been lauded by consumers for offering phones with top-of-the-line specs at a reasonably affordable price range, on Thursday at an event in New York announced its newest flagship smartphone. Called the OnePlus 5T, the handset sports a 6.01-inch AMOLED screen (screen resolution 1080 x 2160) manufactured by Samsung in a body that is roughly of the same size as the 5.5-inch display-clad predecessor OnePlus 5. The secret sauce is, much like Samsung, LG and Apple, OnePlus has moved to a near bezel-less design. The company is not getting rid of the fingerprint scanner though, which it has pushed to the back side. The front-facing camera, additionally, OnePlus says, can be used to unlock the device. Other features include a 3,300mAh battery with the company's proprietary Dash Charge fast-charging tech (no wireless charging support -- the company says at present wireless charging doesn't really add much value to the device), top-of-the-line Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor with Adreno 540, 6GB of RAM with 64GB of storage (there is another variant of the phone which offers 8GB of RAM with 128GB of space). As for camera, we are looking at a dual 16-megapixel and 20-megapixel setup in the back. One more thing: the phone has a headphone jack and it runs Android 7.1 out of the box. The OnePlus 5T will go on sale in Europe, India, and the United States starting November 21st, with the base model priced at Euro 499, INR 32,999, and $499, respectively. The high-end variant is priced at Euro 559, INR 37,999, and $559. Wired has more details.
OnePlus Admits to Collecting Your Data... (Score:4, Interesting)
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Just install Resurrection Remix.
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Other OS : Example (Score:2)
the best option is to completely abandon the manufacturer, unlock the bootloader and install a different operating system in the hopes it will remain better supported.
Example of a different operating system with commercial support : Sailfish X (for Sony Xperia X) [jolla.com] by Jolla, the former Nokia engineer who were working on Maemo/Meego for the N700/N800/N900/N9 series before Elop and Microsoft [blogs.com] happened to them.
That's another alternative possibility to the usual suspects (like LineageOS, etc.)
(Note: NOT Android based at all - except for the platform drivers [github.com], it's still GNU/Linux [merproject.org] under the hood like back when at Nokia).
Regarding phones fromOnePlus, Jolla doesn't currently have a
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Android itself isn't the problem, it's the applications and customisations applied by google, handset makers and network operators. The stock open source Android (AOSP) is fine, and there are various community builds available.
Free publicity (Score:3, Funny)
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But that's because tech journalism is largely fulfilled by people who have no technical experience, and are more interested in looking the part (i.e. hipster/geeks) than actually dealing with technical information, and since a lot of people are fairly lazy to begin with (i'm guilty of that) why write something, when someone else has already done that for you.
A part of it also, and this goes more broadly, the review industry loves being subjective, because it allows them to be vague and not particularly trut
Re: Free publicity (Score:1)
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Headphone Courage (Score:5, Insightful)
(Circa 2014)
Manufacturer - "Our phone comes with a headphone jack."
Customer - "Uhhh, no shit. Why are you even telling me this?"
(Circa 2017)
Manufacturer - "Our phone comes with a headphone jack."
Customer - "Ballsy move man. I'm impressed by your courage."
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I hope you realize the only reason the word "courage" has any meaning when discussing technology is because a world famous CEO used it as a cover up for removing a very useful feature from a phone just to fleece it's customers.
To be more clear, he lied out of ass and no one took him to task. People opened the iphone and found the space *empty* where the headphone jack used to be. And then they added a 3d poop emoji VR scanner in the extra space on their next phone iteration... Some amateur even later put hi
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Nice copy-paste Chrome shilling.
Noscript is coming in a couple of days because the developer is slow on the conversion to WebExtensions. The new API has been available for a long time, everyone knew the release date of FF57 and that new extensions would have to be in WebExtensions format from that date. The fact that some extension developers weren't ready is their own problem, maybe you should donate some time or money to them, if you care so much?
Besides, uMatrix is available and is a much more powerful a
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Real courage at this point would be bucking the trend and selling a phone with all the features people want but which are being removed - removable battery, SD card, headphone jack, fingerprint scanner on the front. And stock Android. Instead it seems like all the manufacturers seem to be competing as to who can remove the most things people want while at the same time introducing things like higher display resolutions when the 1080p on a three year old phone is already fine and more pixels usually means le
Re:Headphone Jack! (Score:5, Insightful)
There are pros/cons to all the fingerprint scanner locations. I think on the whole, I'd prefer it on the front with a physical home button, so it could be accessed when the phone is sitting on a desk, but my current device has it on the back and it's not that bad. I'm also a weird one that would like all the navigation keys to be physical, so I'm an outlier. I also completely agree with SD, headphone jack, and removable battery. I bought a Nexus 6 with neither SD nor removable battery. After a couple years the battery holds about 50% charge and as apps and such keep getting bigger, I get low on space. With SD, I can move my media over there and leave the internal for the apps etc.. And as I don't mind my phone being a few mm thicker, I can install an extended battery and have power for days.
I wish someone would make a device targeting enthusiast users. Those features, a 6" class screen, 1080p is good enough. Say, $500, and release a working AOSP build tree from the start. It doesn't have to include any extra features for the OS, just the base AOSP with all the hardware working properly would do fine. For real bonus points, a working standard Linux kernel would be great. Break off the proprietary bits with source stubs like the Nvidia drivers so we can update the kernel. I'd love full open source, but for some reason that's a big ask. So how about meet us in the middle?
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Yeah, but phones don't last forever. I'd have upgraded from my S5 by now if it wasn't for the fact that more modern Samsung phones are increasingly crippled.
I can't be the only one in that situation.
As yzf750 put it here [slashdot.org], someone needs to launch the Kickstarter and build the phone.
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Runs Android 7.1 out of the box (Score:5, Informative)
Doesn't that just mean it's obsolete out of the box given the current version of Android is 8 (Oreo)?
Pretty much the only thing I ever want to know about new Android phones is whether or not I'm going to get the latest updates. These days unless it's a Pixel the answer is 'no' (maybe that will change with this Project Treble thing) but for some reason we still get breathless Android phone announcements like this Wired one that are all about how many megapixels or bezels it has.
Re:Runs Android 7.1 out of the box (Score:4, Informative)
I think it's fair to say that 99% of all phones that already run Oreo are Google's own Pixel and Nexus phones. Oneplus historically hasn't been bad about updating its phones. For example, they promised the Oneplus 3 and 3T should get Android 8 eventually. Their update cycle is actually faster because they don't sell any carrier branded phones. Marshmallow and Nougat are the most popular Android versions (each taking around 30 percent of market), so either of those is hardly obsolete.
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Marshmallow and Nougat are the most popular Android versions (each taking around 30 percent of market), so either of those is hardly obsolete.
I guess their obsoleteness depends on the exact state of their software. I can't remember when Android started doing the security patch version (Marshmallow?) but I suspect many of them are running M or N but at a minor version number that does not include the latest security updates.
My partner is a big OPO fan & almost certainly will get this new version. She's not at all interested in the security issues I raise. If I can't convince her, I can't convince anyone - so I don't know what chance the avera
Re: Runs Android 7.1 out of the box (Score:3)
obsoleteness
There's actually a word for that...
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I can't remember when Android started doing the security patch version (Marshmallow?)
If you mean the permission overhaul, yes that was in Marshmallow.
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OnePlus has historically been a DISASTER for updates.
One: Abandoned Cyanogen business relationship, in parallel released test Oxygen released, also abandoned
Two: Promised upgrade to Nougat, never happened
X: Abandonware
3/3T: Getting Oreo "eventually", still in beta. Shipped with Marshmallow way into the Nougat release cycle, took nearly a year beyond that to get Nougat.
Only get a OnePlus phone if you are comfortable with and intend on running a custom ROM, and also hope the hardware is defect free because th
Oneplus pricing creep (Score:5, Insightful)
There is no denying that Oneplus 5T is a good value considering you get top shelf hardware spec for 500-something USD. However, this is no longer a budget "flagship killer" phone the way the original 300/350USD Oneplus One (16/64GB) used to be in 2014. At this +500 price, you can find mainstream brand phones, such as LG G6. I was able to score a Galaxy S8 for under 500USD with a trade-in phone. Other things being equal, I still prefer Oneplus to LG, but a lot of brand loyal who were originally attracted by low pricing will start wondering what happened.
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Shut up and take my identity!
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Nothing wrong with a locked bootloader if it's easily unlocked..
These phones have a locked bootloader as a defence against accidental breakage or malware, you can unlock the bootloader easily if you choose to do so.
Their cost is low because they sell your data (Score:1)
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Who buy's a OnePlus phone and leaves the OnePlus software on it? It's easy enough to remove it and install a new ROM, kernel, and recovery?
The most important question is will the screen be installed right side up this time. Or will it still have the same jelly effect that the OnePlus 5 had. Until someone does a tear down, or we see the kernel source code, we won't know (and I won't order one).
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And still on OIS (Score:2)
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