Sorry if wrong place, couldn't see sub forum. Check this phone out guys the specs seem to good for the price. Wow!
Wounder if we can buy in UK?
http://oneplus.net/one#overview
Wounder if we can buy in UK?
http://oneplus.net/one#overview
I'm ready to give them my money
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Certainly interesting! I wouldn't call it a flagship killer, though.
For me a device will never be the ultimate flagship if it lack a MicroSD slot. Especially if the phone is 16GB. Maybe the US has worldwide free 100Mbps WiFi for cloud and streaming, but the rest of us don't.
The only way in which it is a flagship killer is the unsustainably low price. Hence their ridiculous invite system.
You can either play the game with rabid forum fanboys in the hope of MAYBE being permitted to purchase this device, OR you can just to and buy the nearly identical Oppo Find 7a and have the device arrive within days.
If they'd priced it $100 higher they would've been able to have a sane ordering system. With their current business plan, the device is going to be vaporware for all but a small handful of users.
Certainly interesting! I wouldn't call it a flagship killer, though.
For me a device will never be the ultimate flagship if it lack a MicroSD slot. Especially if the phone is 16GB. Maybe the US has worldwide free 100Mbps WiFi for cloud and streaming, but the rest of us don't.
I'm not really sure what this means.
Seeing as Oneplus is created by ex Oppo employee and the 32gb Oppo Find 5 I used to own only had a 2gb partition for app storage, even the new Find 7 only has a 3gb partition, I will get the 64gb version only if the full 64gb is available for apps storage.
These small partitions for app storage are totally useless in that a lot of apps nowadays can be 1gb+ in size so a small 2 or 3gb partition will be filled up pretty quickly. As an example on my Galaxy Note 3 my total apps have taken up 3.7gb.
Otherwise, this phone sounds like near perfect device for me.
Certainly interesting! I wouldn't call it a flagship killer, though.
For me a device will never be the ultimate flagship if it lack a MicroSD slot. Especially if the phone is 16GB. Maybe the US has worldwide free 100Mbps WiFi for cloud and streaming, but the rest of us don't.
I honestly wouldn't know what the size of.. is that a quarter? is.
I don't see why I should have to pay extra for something other, both more expensive and cheaper, bigger and smaller phones have by default.
And that brings me to "Why should I have to carry an additional device when I could just as well store it inside the phone in a tiny slot that costs nothing to add?" It's a hole, why should I pay more for less device?
Believe me, I'm not the exception. I've a fair bit of insight into mobile sales, and having an expandable memory is still one of the main selling points of a great many well-selling smartphones. (All of Samung's Galaxy Note & S line, for one). (Admittedly, there are also a great many people too stupid to even know the difference between an SDcard and a SIMcard... "Can I store my apps on my SIMcard?" /facepalm)
On an average day, I get about 25 people asking me "Can I put more GB in it for my music?" In a country with 17 million people, that's a lot for one shop. Why do you think the Nexus devices aren't selling as much as the S4 and S5? Can't be the price. Even if you take away the marketing part of the sales. People don't want a device they can't expand.
Even if not for videos and music, how are you going to store photo's taken with a 16MP camera on a 16GB phone? Particularly one that has only 4-9GB available for use? Do you simply not have apps?
Not everyone has the data package or the signal strength to sync photos to cloud all the time. Try doing that on the, over here very common, 250MB data package. That's what, 15 photo's? We don't have unlimited data packages, and 3G isn't exactly covering more than 60% of the country. Plus we have borders every 200-500km! Do you lot realize what roaming costs? 2 euro per MB (Why do you think the HTC One has such a crappy low-megapixel camera? (and the iPhone))
Not to mention, take the 4K filming... 4K recording with only 9GB internal storage free? Good luck with that!
Something you are actually correct about! You're right. KitKat did not "break" the SD card. The Android Open Source Project stopped any type of official support for exandable FAT32/exFAT based storage as of 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Every single implementation since then for external storage has been third-party. There are numerous reasons for this, and it's not all just about everyone's conspiracy that they want you to use their cloud services. Having a filesystem which uses FAT requires licensing from Microsoft, and is a security concern or a myriad of reasons. I suggest you read more into why KitKat specifically started to prevent apps from modifying data on a FAT-formatted SD card.I know how KitKat 'breaks' the SDcard. Except that it really doesn't.
Even if you're not rooted, most big apps have long since been altered to use the SDcard again.
That is of course completely ignoring the fact that the OnePlus comes with Cyanogenmod, rendering the whole 'rootaccess' point entirely irrelevant.
I honestly wouldn't know what the size of.. is that a quarter? is.
I don't see why I should have to pay extra for something other, both more expensive and cheaper, bigger and smaller phones have by default.
And that brings me to "Why should I have to carry an additional device when I could just as well store it inside the phone in a tiny slot that costs nothing to add?" It's a hole, why should I pay more for less device?
Believe me, I'm not the exception. I've a fair bit of insight into mobile sales, and having an expandable memory is still one of the main selling points of a great many well-selling smartphones. (All of Samung's Galaxy Note & S line, for one). (Admittedly, there are also a great many people too stupid to even know the difference between an SDcard and a SIMcard... "Can I store my apps on my SIMcard?" /facepalm)
On an average day, I get about 25 people asking me "Can I put more GB in it for my music?" In a country with 17 million people, that's a lot for one shop. Why do you think the Nexus devices aren't selling as much as the S4 and S5? Can't be the price. Even if you take away the marketing part of the sales. People don't want a device they can't expand.
Even if not for videos and music, how are you going to store photo's taken with a 16MP camera on a 16GB phone? Particularly one that has only 4-9GB available for use? Do you simply not have apps?
Not everyone has the data package or the signal strength to sync photos to cloud all the time. Try doing that on the, over here very common, 250MB data package. That's what, 15 photo's? We don't have unlimited data packages, and 3G isn't exactly covering more than 60% of the country. Plus we have borders every 200-500km! Do you lot realize what roaming costs? 2 euro per MB (Why do you think the HTC One has such a crappy low-megapixel camera? (and the iPhone))
Not to mention, take the 4K filming... 4K recording with only 9GB internal storage free? Good luck with that!
I know how KitKat 'breaks' the SDcard. Except that it really doesn't. Even if you're not rooted, most big apps have long since been altered to use the SDcard again.
That is of course completely ignoring the fact that the OnePlus comes with Cyanogenmod, rendering the whole 'rootaccess' point entirely irrelevant.
Seeing as Oneplus is created by ex Oppo employee and the 32gb Oppo Find 5 I used to own only had a 2gb partition for app storage, even the new Find 7 only has a 3gb partition, I will get the 64gb version only if the full 64gb is available for apps storage.
These small partitions for app storage are totally useless in that a lot of apps nowadays can be 1gb+ in size so a small 2 or 3gb partition will be filled up pretty quickly. As an example on my Galaxy Note 3 my total apps have taken up 3.7gb.
Otherwise, this phone sounds like near perfect device for me.
Geez those import fees are crazy! The S5 has like 8gb of usable space so I can only imagine someone trying to use it without an SD card lol. 64gb is like a sweet spot for devices without expandable storage though. Like I said you are the exception because you actually really use all that space and even more. The SD card slot isn't that big of an issue when a phone comes with 64gb though. The Oneplus One if you're planning on getting it, will be available to you in 64gb. They will be shipped from within the EU to avoid extra taxes and fees. 400euro for a phone with all these specs is pretty awesome! The 128gb Microsd card is really expensive though. You could get about 3 64gb Microsd cards for the price of one. The "many" people wanting an SD card slot are actually a minority in the smartphone market. We're just more vocal since we're on tech sites and such. If you had all the users on XDA state they wanted SD card slots we would still be somewhat a minority lol.
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