The CEO of the company is looking for faster, more efficient and non-destructive ways to charge his phones. Until then, it's business as usual.
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Nope, there are still no plans for a mid-range OnePlus X2, aka a sequel to the once-beloved OnePlus X, and anything claiming the opposite is fake news.
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For all of the company’s device marketing and distribution progresses lately, OnePlus continued to disappoint on the software support front, especially as far as the recurrently troubled X was concerned.
But the mid-ranger did ultimately receive its over-the-air Marshmallow love, and by combining the Android-skinning efforts behind OxygenOS and HydrogenOS, OnePlus took a solemn oath it would speed up future platform updates.
That may well happen sooner than you think, with Nougat goodies apparently headed for the Chinese OEM’s newest flagship phone later this month. Before Android 7.0 can roll out to the OnePlus 3 user masses, of course, a few community builds will be available for brave public beta testers.
If everything goes smoothly, and prospective bugs can be quickly squashed, a polished OS makeover could follow with a relatively large-scale delivery by the end of the year, i.e. sometime in December.
It would be the ultimate Christmas gift for existing OnePlus 3 owners, while those still on the fence about the 5.5-inch Snapdragon 820 powerhouse might want to wait and see what 3T’s deal is. Perhaps the oft-rumored SD821 spin-off is to run Android 7.0 Nougat out the box.
Don’t give up on the OnePlus 2 either, formally guaranteed now to move beyond Marshmallow too… eventually, with the One and X however probably left behind for good.
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We know, we know, it’s been long enough. Roughly a year since both the OnePlus X and Android 6.0 were released to the general public, similarly hard to come by off the bat. The affordable mid-range 5-inch phone and Lollipop’s sweet OS successor tried their best to go wide in the first half of 2016, but then OnePlus decided to
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The reformed OnePlus, wholly focused on high-end smartphones and solid software support now, is definitely looking to tone down its controversial marketing ploys, but when it comes to public communication, there are no radical changes in the pipeline.That’s a great thing, mind you, considering Pete Lau and Carl Pei’s very transparent policies implemented ever since the Chinese OEM was born in ...
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The torment of at least a few adventurous OnePlus X users is finally coming to an end, as the latest Android iteration (technically, Nougat isn’t out yet) can be manually flashed at your own risk.Granted, we expected more from OnePlus, sooner and faster, with the upper mid-range 5-incher commercially launched last November, and clearly capable of running ...
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OxygenOS 3.2.4 is on the way out over the air this weekend. The update is supposed to fix an auto-reboot bug, improve call quality and go after some nitpicky issues. What users are actually getting, as with previous updates, are more problems.Many are asking for updates to the OnePlus 2 as they feel that device has been neglected by the software team. It’s possible that with some major holes to patch, the 2 and the
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In a market already dominated by low-cost smartphone brands, where Apple continues to foolishly pursue profits rather than sales volumes, you don’t see a retailer like Amazon slash prices on Android handhelds quite as often as stateside.But from today through Wednesday, August 10, India-based mobile consumers ...
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Is Google working on a Nexus smartwatch? Brexit is already causing tech prices to climb in the UK! Can Apple maintain high profit margins in an increasingly competitive industry? These stories, plus we’ll be tackling your questions and comments, and get ready to vote for your favorite Pocketnow photog! Make sure you’re charged and ready for episode 208 of the Pocketnow Weekly!Watch the video broadcast from 2:00pm Eastern on July 7th (click
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A new day, a new series of headlines made by the always controversial Chinese device manufacturer OnePlus… for all the wrong reasons. But while early OP3 adopters are still waiting to hear why their important incremental software update was halted, and when might the rollout restart, we have relatively good news ...
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Deciding to focus on a single “true flagship family” of Android smartphones, and therefore putting the kibosh on prospective sequels for the mid-range OnePlus X, is one thing, and might actually feel like a sound business practice from a certain standpoint.Pulling the plug on the $200 Snapdragon 801 5-incher just eight months after its ...
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In case you were wondering whether Y comes after X or perhaps an X2 or X Plus, you need not wonder anymore, with OnePlus intent on investing all its production, distribution and marketing resources in the company’s one “true flagship” line.Talk about a tech outfit that knows exactly what it wants, and what it’s good at, as both rookie smartwatch and
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You officially will never need an invite from OnePlus to buy its products ever again.Well, if we’re talking about the OnePlus X and the OnePlus 2 in the US.To be clear, you can already get both phones from third-party suppliers on Amazon right now, but OnePlus will soon be officially providing the ...
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In case you needed further proof that the OnePlus 3 is nigh (under three weeks away, apparently), and set to cost even less than its predecessor upon launch, the China-based company responsible for so many great deals these past couple of years just outdid itself with a fresh round of global smartphone ...
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The online teasing games for the next “flagship killer” from equal parts popular and controversial smartphone manufacturer OnePlus are far from over, with CEO Pete Lau joining co-founder Carl Pei in dropping vague hints about very important things or much more specific details on less paramount features.What we know for sure about the upcoming OnePlus 3 is a select group of early Loop VR headset adopters will be able to buy the handheld before anyone else in virtual space, and that
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