OnePlus 2 price surprisingly dropped to $349/€345/£249 for good

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

The Chinese startup that rocked the smartphone world back in 2014 is no longer a fumbling rookie, and in addition to a gradual phasing out of its controversial invite purchase system, it’s intent to show it with frequent and much more inspired discounts than ever.Not only are you able to freely buy the OnePlus X already, and score gratis cases for Valentine’s Day, but the OnePlus 2 is now available at a brand new price globally forever. ...

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OnePlus announces some free case deals for Valentine’s Day promo

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Is there no holiday that’s not a good opportunity to sell some smartphones? Arbor Day coming up? How about some half-priced wearables? Cinco de Mayo right around the corner? Let’s offer some free USB power packs with new phone purchases! So while you may not think of Valentine’s Day as a particularly phone-related celebration, hardware manufacturers are doing their darnedest to cash in on the inevitable swell of gift-giving all the same, and OnePlus is ...

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Starting today, the OnePlus X goes invite-free for good worldwide

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One by one, the three affordable flagships initially sold through a controversial invitation-based system by Chinese smartphone startup OnePlus have ditched restrictions, catches and long waiting periods in the past months.First, OnePlus One production was ramped up (or demand finally dwindled), so the “original flagship killer” opened online orders for all a full year after its commercial launch. Then,

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OnePlus ends 16GB OnePlus 2 sales in multiple markets, releases new OnePlus One OxygenOS

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Did any of you Londoners take OnePlus up on yesterday’s one-hour-or-it’s-free delivery offer? The promotion sounded pretty neat, and we’re only upset that it wasn’t available in more areas. Today’s OnePlus news, on the other hand, has a much broader reach – though not all of it is particularly good news, depending on your shopping preferences.First we’ve got some news about OnePlus 2 sales. Historically, OnePlus has made the handset available in two main ...

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OnePlus and Henchman target London with one-hour phone deliveries tomorrow

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Is OnePlus a smartphone company with an image problem? Use of an invite-only sales strategy may have allowed OnePlus to sell phones when it might not have otherwise been able to, and while the invite situation is dramatically improved now compared to twenty months ago, is the manufacturer’s reputation as a company whose phones are difficult to get your hands on continuing to harm it? We’ve recently seen OnePlus take some big steps to start smoothing things over, including dropping the invite requirement ...

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Android Marshmallow betas on for certain OnePlus, Honor devices

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More Marshmallow, more of the time. The clock stands at 106 days — that’s three-and-a-half months — since the final images of the first build of Android 6.0 were dropped onto Nexus devices. Motorola gave some encouraging news to Moto G Turbo owners in India today on that front and it looks like we’re about to see

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OnePlus 2 Mini could be on the way with 4.6-inch FHD screen, 4GB RAM

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Slowly but surely, OnePlus is phasing out the controversial and downright uncomfortable invitation-based purchasing system for its three affordable high-end phones to date. As such, it’s time we kicked off the sequel and spin-off rumor games, despite the X having literally just debuted, and

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OnePlus 2 and OnePlus X now available without invites, plus cheap accessories

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Without going into great detail, OnePlus took to social media earlier this week to preview its “four epic days” of “open sales and holiday deals.” At the time, we presumed only the OnePlus 2 would be available for all between November 27 and 30, but it turns out the X is also invited to the no-invitation party.Unfortunately, the two phones still start at their normal prices ...

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OnePlus 2 opens up sales on Amazon India for a full 72 hours

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Ahead of a special Black Friday event that should see the fast-rising manufacturer’s second flagship phone ditch invites for a whole weekend in unspecified markets, OnePlus gets into a festive mood early in India, where the 2 can already be ordered sans restrictions from Amazon.Technically, the invite-free extravaganza is set to last three days, from November 25 at midnight through November 27 at 11:59 PM, but of course, everything hinges on inventory, ...

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OnePlus teases extended no-invite OnePlus 2 sales this weekend

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Trying to get your hands on a OnePlus smartphone this holiday season? Whether you’re looking to pick up the OnePlus 2 or the new OnePlus X, that means putting up with the invite process – and right away, that’s a big turn-off for shoppers who already don’t have a lot of time, and aren’t too keen on jumping through a lot of hoops. Luckily for them, OnePlus has the occasional period of no-invite-needed sales, when anyone who wants one can fork over the cash for one of the ...

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Carl Pei: do people want OnePlus around or not?

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Startups make a habit of raising hell in their respective industries because not only do they are out to “fix” said industries, but they have to differentiate and provide better services than the old guard does. OnePlus told us that we should “Never Settle,” that we should “Shatter the Past” and that ladies (worth ogling over) come first, but “no nudity please.”Taking the ...

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OnePlus One and OnePlus 2 officially slated to receive Marshmallow in Q1 2016

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

They say at least a couple of Samsung phones will begin their over-the-air Android 6.0 rollouts by the end of the year, and HTC has also confirmed the One M8 and M9 won’t be left in the lurch until 2016. Meanwhile, Moto X 2014 and X Style users in a few international markets are already feasting on Marshmallow goodies, with

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OnePlus starts pushing new OxygenOS to OnePlus 2 with camera, performance tweaks

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We’ve been so focused on our experiences with the OnePlus X lately that it’s easy to forget that this model, new as it may be, is still second fiddle to the OnePlus 2 flagship – already a phone that’s starting to feel like last season’s model despite having only just became available three months ago. But the OnePlus 2 soldiers on, and OnePlus is committed to keeping the phone at the top ...

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OnePlus X indeed lacks two essential US LTE bands, and there’s no fix in sight

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

OnePlus stirred up quite the controversy by not including NFC connectivity in its second flagship’s bag of tricks, arguing very few One owners frequently used it, but as far as prospective US buyers of the X are concerned, a much more distressing omission just came to light.To be fair, we heard about the mid-ranger’s scanty LTE support off ...

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OnePlus will give you complete peace of mind with On-Guard warranty program

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

For once, it seems OnePlus didn’t overpromise and underdeliver when teasing customer support would get better after the mid-range X’s launch, as the invite system should perk up before long, and buyers of both the “2016 flagship killer” and this new 5-incher will be covered against… everything on demand.Broken screens, accidental ...

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