OnePlus 2 - Invites and chatter

[d3llams]

Just placed an order for my OnePlus Two, thanks to Mr Happy for the invite.

[anonymous-user]

TBH I think this whole invite business a bit of bks.
Its quite amusing that by registering a "prescence" from one IP address I can be something like 4 000 000 or whatever in the list but by doing one from another IP with another e mail I can be 325 000 000 or whatever
Just seems like random numbers to me.

[A - W]

Anyone got a spare invite please?

[d3llams]

When I get my invites I will be sure to offer them on here on a first come first serve basis. I have no idea when/if I will get them however.

[leglessAlex]

techiedave said:

TBH I think this whole invite business a bit of bks.
Its quite amusing that by registering a "prescence" from one IP address I can be something like 4 000 000 or whatever in the list but by doing one from another IP with another e mail I can be 325 000 000 or whatever
Just seems like random numbers to me.

Of course for customers the invite system is a pile of crap, but it's an extremely effective marketing ploy. Oneplus leaves a lot to be desired in the logistics and organisation area, and a bit to be desired in the product area but their marketing is fantastic.

[Altrezia]

I am going to sell my oneplus two. Anyone here want it before i advertise it?
As new, with the stock back and two others, the black wood and other non-bamboo wood.

[Kinky]

Altrezia said:

I am going to sell my oneplus two. Anyone here want it before i advertise it?
As new, with the stock back and two others, the black wood and other non-bamboo wood.

Not getting on with it then?

[Altrezia]

Nope, not really. not sure why - just not clicking with it. I do like the way it feels, but I think it's just the size. Same reason I went from an iPhone 6+ to the smaller 6, I guess. Must have girls hands.

[Luke.]

Altrezia in getting rid of phone shocker

[Altrezia]

Ha ha, :P

[Lord Pikey]

If this actually happens this year mine will be going on ebay as well

http://www.phonearena.com/news/Slick-OnePlus-Mini-...

[Fatrat]

So.............my son loves his Plus 2. Mine is fine. I've played with it on the Wi Fi but for some reason I just can't gel with it. Maybe I just don't have the time to get to grips with it at the moment so I'm sticking with my Plus One

So if you want one now (never been out of the house) email me before it goes back to China

[RenesisEvo]

To the people who've managed to get one - is it worth waiting for? It might be good, but that's irrelevant if I've got to wait until the new year or longer to maybe get one (I've slid from 600k to 760k in the list!), My contract ended in March - my current phone is crying out for replacement (endless missed calls, unable to answer calls that it does receive as it freezes, and keep running out of storage). As the days roll by and prices of competitors fall (eg LG G4) and new phones hit the market (eg Moto X Play), I see less and less reason to hold out.

[Mr Happy]

In my most brutally honest, frank and up front opinion - no.

The hardware is 'ok', insofar as it misses out a few things that are useful to have (NFC etc) in lieu of nice to haves (4gb RAM, fingerprint reader, dual sim etc).

The OS is woeful - it is an utter abortion. The nanosecond a stable, full featured version of Cyanogen is available, I'll cast OxygenOS to the pit of hell, never to see my phone again!

As it is, if you have an OPO, it's not worth the upgrade. If you have an old phone that is creaking, and you don't mind working with buggy software - it'll be great, if you're a committed OS flasher, you'll probably have a good time. If you want a phone to just work - look elsewhere.

I really don't like doing negative reviews though, the hardware is nice (save for a few weird decisions made by OnePlus), it is an amazing device to just hold in your hand, but coming from anything other than the most locked down, bloated android, you'll feel like at the very best it is a sidestep rather than a step forward.

(Of course, this is only my opinion - others may and probably will vary!!)

Edited by Mr Happy on Friday 25th September 23:53

[BongoHunter]

Ive had mine for about 2 weeks now.

The OS is not as good as the OPO

Though builds are coming through for CM12 now so hopefully the OS will catchup soon.


Cant really fault the phone other than I miss CM and the goodies it brings.
Dont miss NFC, love having 2 SIMs

Edited by BongoHunter on Saturday 26th September 00:07

Edited by BongoHunter on Saturday 26th September 00:15

[Altrezia]

I didn't see any bugs while I had mine, but the thing felt a bit.. slow? Laggy? Smooth to scroll, but button presses and things took a while to action, and apps, even chrome, took longer than my Nex5 to open up.

Does feel great to hold, though, so I'm sure with some software tweaks (or a better ROM) it will be a great device.

[leglessAlex]

I'm not really getting on with the phone to be honest. It's a bit too thick compared to my other phone (Galaxy S6) and my previous phone (HTC One M8), the fingerprint sensor is crap (although so is my Galaxys) but most of all it just doesn't feel like a phone that has four gigabytes of RAM in it.

I mean, four gigabytes! The thing should be lightning fast and it just isn't, even when opening normal apps like Facebook and Instagram it isn't anywhere near instant.

I'm probably going to sell it on which is disappointing, how do others feel about it?

[d3llams]

Well, I am moving on from an old Nokia Lumia 920 and to me it seems absolutely brilliant, with huge capability. The camera is very impressive although a bit slow to actually take the picture and the fingerprint scanner felt very responsive in my opinion. Now that the updates are coming through it can only get better, I have already felt an increased responsiveness with the fingerprint scanner.

[Aiten]

I was holding out for the Nexus 5x but it is £380, which is vastly more expensive than the similarly spec'ed OP2. Disappointed, I decided to bump my way up the invites

Invite 1 ... Congratulations, you are 5.2 million in the queue.
Invite 2 ... Congratulations, you are 3.x million in the queue.
Invite 3 ... Congratulations, you are 3.z million in the queue.

I don't get their invite system, and I did double check the numbers.

Still, jumped me 400k spots.

[Durzel]

Mr Happy said:

In my most brutally honest, frank and up front opinion - no.

The hardware is 'ok', insofar as it misses out a few things that are useful to have (NFC etc) in lieu of nice to haves (4gb RAM, fingerprint reader, dual sim etc).

The OS is woeful - it is an utter abortion. The nanosecond a stable, full featured version of Cyanogen is available, I'll cast OxygenOS to the pit of hell, never to see my phone again!

As it is, if you have an OPO, it's not worth the upgrade. If you have an old phone that is creaking, and you don't mind working with buggy software - it'll be great, if you're a committed OS flasher, you'll probably have a good time. If you want a phone to just work - look elsewhere.

I really don't like doing negative reviews though, the hardware is nice (save for a few weird decisions made by OnePlus), it is an amazing device to just hold in your hand, but coming from anything other than the most locked down, bloated android, you'll feel like at the very best it is a sidestep rather than a step forward.

(Of course, this is only my opinion - others may and probably will vary!!)

Edited by Mr Happy on Friday 25th September 23:53

Good review.

I've got a OPO which had a screen fault, though it seems to have gone away. In the time between it manifesting and disappearing I fought hard against OnePlus's "support" (I use that term very loosely), and it did not fill me with much confidence of buying another product from them. I'd strongly advise anyone thinking of buying a OPO/OPO2 to at least consider the very real possibility that if it goes wrong (outside of the PayPal dispute window) you could struggle to get it replaced.

I've also heard similar about OxygenOS vs CyanogenMod.

I'm pretty disappointed with the Nexus 5X refresh, though, especially given the price. It has half the amount of RAM that the OPO2 does, a slower processor, and is £100 more. It doesn't intuitively feel like it's a particularly good time tech wise in the Android marketplace at the moment.

It's given me a newfound appreciation for the power of the OPO though, especially given how much it cost me.