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It's rare that an Android phone would get more than two OS version updates in two years. But OnePlus is making it happen, though.
The policy applies to devices from the OnePlus 3 onwards and may allow that phone to get Android P. It's better than just presuming what updates will go on.
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Gone but not forgotten, the two year-old OnePlus 3 and 3T are being updated right now to OxygenOS 5.0.3, containing Face Unlock features and May security patches.
Google's visual recognition service is coming not in drips, but in occasional bursts. OnePlus phones have quickly been taken with Google Lens.
In fact, it's all thanks to leftover code and poor management from OnePlus between the Chinese-facing HydrogenOS and the world-facing OxygenOS.
The world's most successful mobile device vendor was also the most copied smartphone brand of 2017, winning the "battle" against Apple by a landslide.
With or without Project Treble, the OnePlus 5T, 5, 3T and 3 will all get Android 8.1 "later." In the meantime, the 5T is shaping up like a smash hit.
Android 8.0's slow spread has reached a small milestone as OnePlus has started to move its 2016 devices onto the new operating system.
It's a Qualcomm app and it's not really supposed to be on user-side software. Well, it is on user-side software with OxygenOS.
The OnePlus 5T will be a little different from the OnePlus 5 — it will have an Android Oreo base and some interesting cameras.
We're still not sure if it's going to be called OnePlus 5T or OnePlus 6, but the company's next flagship phone sounds and looks fairly intriguing.
If you can live with a lot of bugs for the sake of trying out Android 8.0 Oreo before everyone else, OnePlus 3 and 3T betas are now available.
Just as there was a OnePlus 3T to the OnePlus 3, there may be a OnePlus 5T to the OnePlus 5. We don't know if it will take on the form of a new OPPO phone.
The company showed off how grippy its new case is with a racecar. It's also drop-resistant and up for orders from October 1.
It's a festive looking view if your display can support it, but unfortunately, it'll be with most OnePlus 3T units, but not with some and the OnePlus 3.
The OnePlus 3 and OnePlus 3T will get the Android 8.0 update, but also security updates for at least another couple years... we hope.
There's now confirmation that OnePlus is looking at both the OnePlus 5 and OnePlus 3T for an audio recording issue while shooting video.
Okay, maybe "inverted" is the better word for it, but it's a quirk in the video recording that doesn't change for some reason.
Co-founder Carl Pei thought it would be funny to suggest article titles for stuff he's addressing on a Reddit AMA thread for the OnePlus 5.
We talk with the man behind TechAltar, Marton Barcza, about the OnePlus 5 hype train that he feels should've been derailed a long time ago on our show!
It's literally only been half a year, but OnePlus has decided to go and disrupt its offerings once again. Where do your upgrade dollars go?
It's an AMOLED panel, so at least there are the color and brightness benefits which make DCI-P3 support possible, but is this a form of settling?
With proprietary Dash Charge technology and a frugal 1080p screen, the super-slim OnePlus 5 may not need more than 3,300 mAh juice to shine.
