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Who is buying the OnePlus One?

Will you be purchasing the OnePlus One

  • Yes! Take my money!

    Votes: 29 51.8%

  • Most likely, but not right away

    Votes: 9 16.1%

  • Undecided

    Votes: 7 12.5%

  • No, I'm not interested

    Votes: 6 10.7%

  • Not in the market for a new phone right now

    Votes: 1 1.8%

  • If my carrier supported it

    Votes: 4 7.1%
  • Total voters
    56
Looking forward to this phone. I would want to hold one before purchase but this might finally get me out of my very old Metro grandfathered plan.
 
confed said:
Looking forward to this phone. I would want to hold one before purchase but this might finally get me out of my very old Metro grandfathered plan.
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Provided Metro are a GSM/HSDPA carrier, you should just be able to buy the One, insert your SIM, and carry on with your grandfathered unlimited plan. The One is not supplied by carriers, yet, so should be no need to sign a new contract and change to limited plans
 
mikedt said:
Provided Metro are a GSM/HSDPA carrier, you should just be able to buy the One, insert your SIM, and carry on with your grandfathered unlimited plan. The One is not supplied by carriers, yet, so should be no need to sign a new contract and change to limited plans
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you are essentially correct. except specially for metropcs (used to be CDMA) will make him/her leave the grandfathered plan to a new no-contract GSM 60$ unlimited plan.
 
CafeKampuchia said:
I'm not at all convinced that on-contact phones are cheaper in the long run. No carrier is going to lose money subsidizing a phone for 24 months.
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Its not, but not all carriers give you a discount on your month to month bill for bringing your own phone. In those cases, essentially you're paying the same whether you get a subsidized phone or not.

In that scenario its more expensive.


mikedt said:
I suspect the One will do much better outside of the US, i.e. in markets where off contract pricing is the norm. AFAICT top of the range Samsungs etc. are much cheaper in the US, because of heavy subsidies from the likes of Verizon and AT&T.
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Totally agreed. But the point that the G3 would be more expensive doesn't necessarily hold up because orion is in the US, and his carrier (sprint) doesn't give you cheaper plans for bringing your own phone.

I think I'm splitting hairs here, as the 1P1 isnt on sprint so the scenario doesnt matter :rolleyes:
 
I'm very interested, even though my Nexus 5 is perfectly fine and is only eight months old. One thing I would miss quite a bit is wireless charging, which one of the posts said the OnePlus One doesn't have.

Also, does anyone know whether the OnePlus One would get OS updates as quickly or at least close to as quickly as the Nexus 5? That would be an issue for me.

One factor for me is the wish to encourage companies to provide lots of value for the buck, and to avoid helping the mega companies get even richer. Also it's fun to have a phone that most people never heard of! Actually the Nexus 5 fills that bill pretty well.

Mike
 
mikemaddux said:
I'm very interested, even though my Nexus 5 is perfectly fine and is only eight months old. One thing I would miss quite a bit is wireless charging, which one of the posts said the OnePlus One doesn't have.

Also, does anyone know whether the OnePlus One would get OS updates as quickly or at least close to as quickly as the Nexus 5? That would be an issue for me.

One factor for me is the wish to encourage companies to provide lots of value for the buck, and to avoid helping the mega companies get even richer. Also it's fun to have a phone that most people never heard of! Actually the Nexus 5 fills that bill pretty well.

Mike
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Disclaimer: This post is ENTIRELY speculative and I have nothing to back my speculation other than common sense. That said:

1. Updates should come quickly seeing as how this is an "official" Cyanogen Mod phone. Probably not as fast as direct from Google (although maybe faster depending on where you end up in the update queue), but nowhere near as long as through Samsung, HTC, etc. My best guess is that as Google drops a new update, CM should be able to grab it and port it to this device within a couple of weeks or a month at the longest.

2. Since it has a removable/replaceable back. I'd bet that a wireless charging cover is in the plans. If it gains any sort of traction, some third party will make a charging cover for it.
 
Chances are the device will only officially get the stable builds. I wouldn't expect nighty or even m release updates.

Which will be interesting going forward, because cm hasnt released a stable 4.4.2 yet
 
From AnandTech:
At launch, an invite system is in place to handle demand, although it seems that general availability will happen in Q2 2014. Prices for the supported regions can be seen in the photos below.
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On the other hand, many assume that the invite system will be in place by then as well, and OnePlus hasn't been clear about that.
 
TheAtheistReverend said:
My employer blocks access to all social sites, any chance for a synapsis?:o
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Ron amadeo:

My issues with the OnePlus One

I just can't get over how weird/bad some of the decisions are that*+OnePlus*made while designing this thing.

CyanogenMod as the stock phone software? That means you'll be getting the slowest updates in the industry. The usual Samsung+carrier update cycle is about 3-5 months, CyanogenMod typically takes about 6 months to port everything over to the newest version. (A stable 4.4.2 version of CM isn't out yet).
Update: CM Community Manager*+Abhisek Devkota*says the 6 month mark is "an overstatement" of the time it would take to update. We'll see. =)

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The attention to detail is so high that OnePlus*claims the the internals are "specially dyed and treated with a matte black finish, with each part meticulously aligned to be visually pleasing and functional," yet when it came time to do that outside (the part people will actually use and see), they recycled the Oppo Find 5 body, complete with a barely-functional menu button? Put your resources where they matter.*

The "Smash your phone" promotion. Really? After this: Samsung Galaxy S5 Hammer Smash Fail = Battery Explosion, you're going to encourage people to be violent towards something full of sharp glass, lead, and a highly-volatile lithium ion battery? Do you have any kind of common sense at all?

The terrible, terrible marketing which they could never (and didn't) live up to. #neversettle , except for the lack of SD slot, removable battery, wireless charging, Band 20 LTE, Recent Apps button, and terrible update situation.

The spec sheet and price is nice, but if I were a customer, this string of questionable decisions would make me wary. It doesn't really matter though, because it sounds like no one is actually going to be able to buy one of these things anyway. Oh well.


Basically what it boils down to is that nightly and M releases aren't something you'll update a mass consumer device with. That means the device will get updated with stable releases, but cm doesn't have a stable 4.4.2 build of cm11 yet even though KitKat has been out since November.

Its possible they'll accelerate the update cycle on this phone, but that is just another unknown factor to consider
 
I might consider this phone --the 64GB is really tempting, which I misread as 32 GB when I first saw the announcement. Cautious because of the new company thing. It would take, come November:

1. Not liking the choices the Nexus 6-or-whatever-it-will-be-called offers

2. Knowing for sure I could root and I could replace CM with stock Android or a ROM I liked.

and possibly

3. Someone on the Dirty Unicorns team owning one. ;):p
 
Here are the results of a related poll at phonearena.com:

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This is somewhat of a big deal to me since I don't want to cross over into phablet territory. I'm let down by the unfulfilled promise of a 5" phone in a 5.5" chassis, but I'm still likely to get One. (See what I did there? :))

 

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CafeKampuchia said:
Congrats! Can't wait to hear/see more about it!
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I'm very impressed, it is everything I was expecting in a new high-end smart-phone. I've already rooted it and installed the Google apps and services, as it originally came with Baidu and some other PRC specific bloatware. One thing I chose the TD-SCDMA/TD-LTE version, because my main carrier is China Mobile, otherwise I only get slow 2G EDGE speeds. And I don't think there is a "TD" version of the One.

EDIT:

AF does have a couple of fora/forums for this phone, but no posts as of yet. I don't know how widely it's available outside of China. Here all the Oppo stores have it, as well as being available from China Unicom and China Mobile. It was only released a few weeks ago, has being heavily advertised on TV. No CDMA/EV-DO version as of yet.
 
This is my conundrum - buy the OPO 64GB for $350 (USD) or the Oppo Find 7/7a for $150-$250USD more. The specs on the OPO look incredible and design wise, it's slightly more narrow than my current GN2. I don't know enough about ColorOS but it seems to be a love-hate relationship depending on who you ask.

The crazy thing is that the Oppo will STILL be cheaper than the LG G3, which is my only other option. Had thought about the HTC One M8, Samsung GS5, and Sony Xperia Z2 but in every case, I couldn't bring myself to sacrifice the awesome screen real estate I've gotten used to on my GN2.

I'm probably going to wait until some real world reviews before pulling the trigger on either one.
 
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