OnePlus 2 - Invites and chatter
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Oneplus to announce a new phone this week, so I'm holding station for a few more days at least. They've also announced that invites now last 3 days instead of 24 hours. I'm sensing desperation in the face of the invite system being a full bore shot in the foot.
Still can't decide; the LG G4 leaves me cold but on paper is perfect, albeit huge. The Xperia Z5 compact is excellent but is several times the price. This is where Oneplus are losing out biggest - you can't go to store, play with it and fall in love with it. Buying blind is a big gamble, too big for my tastes.
Still can't decide; the LG G4 leaves me cold but on paper is perfect, albeit huge. The Xperia Z5 compact is excellent but is several times the price. This is where Oneplus are losing out biggest - you can't go to store, play with it and fall in love with it. Buying blind is a big gamble, too big for my tastes.
So the OnePlus X announced this morning, and it looks like you might be able to buy it at a pop-up store in London on Saturday the 7th of November 
https://oneplus.net//x-popups
https://oneplus.net//x-popups
Kinky said:
So the OnePlus X announced this morning, and it looks like you might be able to buy it at a pop-up store in London on Saturday the 7th of November
https://oneplus.net//x-popups
Looks good. I tried to register for an invite, but no confirmation email. Sadly I am not mobile enough to hit the pop-up, so will have to wait for the invite, if it ever comes.https://oneplus.net//x-popups
How do you register for a ceramic invite?
My link if you would https://oneplus.net/x?kolid=GHCTGA
My link if you would https://oneplus.net/x?kolid=GHCTGA
Edited by Trustmeimadoctor on Thursday 29th October 11:30
It does look good, the overall handset size is much more to my liking, as is OLED. Put myself on the list, much more likely to commit if the reviews don't write off the camera (bit worried they've downgraded it too much - but then the price more than makes up for it).
I wonder how much impact this will have on the OnePlus 2 sales, with people crossing over? Perhaps they don't care as the production is in parallel?
https://oneplus.net/invites?kid=4QQXKX
I wonder how much impact this will have on the OnePlus 2 sales, with people crossing over? Perhaps they don't care as the production is in parallel?
https://oneplus.net/invites?kid=4QQXKX
RenesisEvo said:
It does look good, the overall handset size is much more to my liking, as is OLED. Put myself on the list, much more likely to commit if the reviews don't write off the camera (bit worried they've downgraded it too much - but then the price more than makes up for it).
The camera's meant to be a 13mp Samsung job. If that's the same as the one in my old Galaxy S4, it'll be excellent in daylight though not so much in darker environments.Luke. said:
The camera's meant to be a 13mp Samsung job. If that's the same as the one in my old Galaxy S4, it'll be excellent in daylight though not so much in darker environments.
Hmm, the work I do means lots of photos taken in offices and workshops where lighting is less than ideal, so good low-light performance is a priority. Hence considering Z5 compact (but that will be 3x the cost).RenesisEvo said:
Luke. said:
The camera's meant to be a 13mp Samsung job. If that's the same as the one in my old Galaxy S4, it'll be excellent in daylight though not so much in darker environments.
Hmm, the work I do means lots of photos taken in offices and workshops where lighting is less than ideal, so good low-light performance is a priority. Hence considering Z5 compact (but that will be 3x the cost).Where most mid-range phones use Sony camera sensors, the OnePlus X has a Samsung one, the 13MP 3M2. This is an ISOCELL camera, using technology first introduced in the Samsung Galaxy S5. What it does is isolate a camera's sensor pixels to reduce crosstalk, theoretically letting a phone use higher ISO sensitivity settings with less noise. The Samsung 3M2 sensor has popped up a few times recently, but only ever in Chinese market phones like the Oppo R7 and Doogee F3.
Taking advantage of being up on the 28th floor I took a few snaps with the OnePlus X to see how it holds up. I'll leave concrete conclusions for the full review, but I found it to be a good middle-weight phone camera that's not quite on-par with the larger 13-megapixel sensor used in the Nexus 5X and 6P. The lens is also so-so, with an unremarkable aperture of f/2.2. Zooming into the photos, there is a pixel-level fuzziness to the camera's fine detail that, predictably enough, got worse when shooting indoors rather than out across London. Zoomed-out this was less obvious, of course.
http://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/2015/10/oneplus-x...
Luke. said:
leglessAlex said:
It's still OxygenOS though, and that's what ruined the Two for me. It's such a shame the relationship with Cyanogen went sour.
Looks pretty stock from what I can tell. What's wrong with it?That is a personal thing though, I'm sure other people like it. I would have preferred Cyanogen or, even better, stock Android.
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