How many Neowinians have the OnePlus One and how has the experience been?


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I am waiting on MWC to see what comes out but most likely I will go for a OnePlus One.

Ive heard horrible stories about their customer support (or lack of) but Ive also heard it is getting better.

I wanted to know good/bad/misc stories about the company and the product.

I've had aOnePlus One since October 2014. Coming from a Samsung Galaxy S4, Note II and other Samsung related phones, all I can say is...what a breath of fresh air the OPO really was. No more bloat, no more lag.

 

I have the 64GB version, (all phones should come with 32GB absolute minimum these days IMHO), and I'm so glad I have so much space on my phone. Room for lots of my music.

 

The phone itself feels greet in the hand, the back is a sort of sandstone/rubbersised effect. Hard to describe, but needless to say, it doesn't slip in the hand. The power of the phone is great. No hang ups, no lag, no problem!

 

I don't think I'll ever go back to the likes of Samsung again, with their high price and bloat installed.

 

I've not needed CS, and I have heard stories of people having a hard time, but as a new young and up and coming company, these kinds of things could be expected. However, as they grow things are getting better.

 

With Cyanogenmod on it, the phone rocks. With Cyanogenmod CM12 Lollipop (nightlies) the phone rocks. Although, as is to be expected, there are still bugs in CM12. But I am using CM12 Lollipop as my daily driver now.

 

OnePlus are going to be using their own OS soon, called OxygenOS, which is using people from the Paranoid Android team, (a very good ROM team), so it looks like the OS should be very good from the off. This, along with CM12S (Lollipop) should be out mid-late March. So, i'd imagine you could choose which OS to use.

 

If you can get one, go for it. At

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I've had aOnePlus One since October 2014. Coming from a Samsung Galaxy S4, Note II and other Samsung related phones, all I can say is...what a breath of fresh air the OPO really was. No more bloat, no more lag.

 

I have the 64GB version, (all phones should come with 32GB absolute minimum these days IMHO), and I'm so glad I have so much space on my phone. Room for lots of my music.

 

The phone itself feels greet in the hand, the back is a sort of sandstone/rubbersised effect. Hard to describe, but needless to say, it doesn't slip in the hand. The power of the phone is great. No hang ups, no lag, no problem!

 

I don't think I'll ever go back to the likes of Samsung again, with their high price and bloat installed.

 

I've not needed CS, and I have heard stories of people having a hard time, but as a new young and up and coming company, these kinds of things could be expected. However, as they grow things are getting better.

 

With Cyanogenmod on it, the phone rocks. With Cyanogenmod CM12 Lollipop (nightlies) the phone rocks. Although, as is to be expected, there are still bugs in CM12. But I am using CM12 Lollipop as my daily driver now.

 

OnePlus are going to be using their own OS soon, called OxygenOS, which is using people from the Paranoid Android team, (a very good ROM team), so it looks like the OS should be very good from the off. This, along with CM12S (Lollipop) should be out mid-late March. So, i'd imagine you could choose which OS to use.

 

If you can get one, go for it. At

I've had mine since August and it is by far the best phone I have owned.  Fortunately, I have not needed to use their customer support.  I was worried about the size, but it feels good in my hand.  It looks and feels like a high quality device. 

It's an amazing phone, i have had mine since June and have never managed to drain the battery in a day, even with 4 hours GPS use on Google Maps. The phone just keeps going.

I honestly cant fault it, phenomenal value for the

I've had mine for a few months as well.  Basically what artnada said.  I came from a Galaxy S2 and a Galaxy S4, and this phone has been leaps and bounds better.  I also have the 64GB sandstone black version too.  It's not "perfect" (a lot of weird, random things happening), but battery life is really good (I'm usually close to 50% by the time I get home from work), the performance is really good, and I love the screen recording feature of CyanogenMod.  It makes it really easy to record my clash of clans gameplay videos.  The camera is decent.  It is capable of taking some great pictures, but the way it adjusts for lighting is a little too aggressive sometimes.  It will end up making the pictures too dark (but that can be fixed with photoshop express).  Overall, I say go for it.  It's a really nice phone.  

I have the 64gb Sandstone addition and it's a great phone. One of the reason why I bought it was because of Cyanogenmod, but now that CM and OnePlus has gone separate ways, I don't really know what to think of it. OxygenOS sounds promising, but I'll reserve judgment when I get it.

I have one since August , and MAN i love it , however i had a few issues , once i could not hear peoples call, they would hear me bu i could not hear them, after a reboot it was all fine again. 

The other one i don't know if it's my problem or not , but the gestures for music , sometimes do not work , but as i said it might be my problem, i have extremely sweaty hands , and when they are not sweaty, they are freaking cold :p 

 

Other than that it's awesome , battery life, application compatibility, and the integrated swift key is a good plus, the thing that it isn't so good it's his camera witch compared with LG G3 or Xperia X3 it's not as good.

 

And as said above ENJOY THE UNBOXING !!! 

Well, guess Ill be ordering it the next March 3rd, Tuesday (if nothing catches my eye at MWC)

Give us an un-boxing and a review when you get it :)

Is LTE working on OnePlus One on AT&T or T-mobile? 

Can anyone confirm this? If not, then its not worth it.

It wouldnt be worth it for YOU...

AT&T 4G HSPA and HSPA+ use 850Mhz(Band 5) and 1900Mhz(Band 2) bands but it all depends on area if they own a license. LTE uses Band 17(700Mhz), Band 5(850Mhz), Band 2(1900Mhz), Band 4(1700/2100Mhz) currently.

It appears to have bands 2 (PCS) and 4 (AWS) which are the major bands used by T-Mobile. It lacks band 12, so it won't work on T-Mobile's new 700 MHz service.

OnePlus One:

3G HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1700 / 1900 / 2100

LTE 700 / 1700 / 1800 / 2100 / 2300 / 2600

(Bands 1, 3, 4, 7, 17, 38, 40)

Your phone would work on 3G but would switch from 3G to 4G in some areas. The bigger question is: In what moment do you really need 4G speeds on a mobile device with a small screen and a capped limited?

Your phone would work on 3G but would switch from 3G to 4G in some areas. The bigger question is: In what moment do you really need 4G speeds on a mobile device with a small screen and a capped limited?

 

Why do you want a powerful processor/ 5 inch touch screen on a Cell Phone, which makes u spend like $350? When you can buy a simple phone for just $30. Because...well a cell phone is for just calling right?

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Why do you want a powerful processor/ 5 inch touch screen on a Cell Phone, which makes u spend like $350? When you can buy a simple phone for just $30. Because...well a cell phone is for just calling right?

What do you do on your cell phone that is WAN related? RAS? VPN?

Right now, I can think of just ONE TWO reason reasons, excluding RAS and VPN, that can benefit from "4G" on a mobile network for consumers...

But, more importantly, why is 4G important for you? Just out of curiosity.

What do you do on your cell phone that is WAN related? RAS? VPN?

Right now, I can think of just ONE TWO reason reasons, excluding RAS and VPN, that can benefit from "4G" on a mobile network for consumers...

But, more importantly, why is 4G important for you? Just out of curiosity.

 

Ten times faster than 3g, HD video chatting, HD video streaming, Online gaming, better VOIP, un-interrupted music streaming....to name a few. 

I don't think a smart person will connect to an insecure and just any Wifi available on the go. and If their phone doesn't have 4G, good luck with waiting to stream/ downloading something on 3G. I Don't know about you but I certainly will not connect to some unknown/ insecure Wifi/ Hot-Spots on the go. 

Ten times faster than 3g, HD video chatting, HD video streaming, Online gaming, better VOIP, un-interrupted music streaming....to name a few.

I don't think you read my question.

My question was NOT Why is 4G important, my question was: Why is 4G important FOR YOU? I listed some of my main reasons which would be RAS and VPN.

"Online gaming" on a 5.5" device where 4G abuses battery life is not a real life scenario. I can think a couple of games that lag could be slightly reduced but other games with static motion (like chess) wont really see any benefit.

Also, again so I can be informed, where did you get the technical information to declare the statement "ten times faster than 3G"?

"Online gaming" on a 5.5" device where 4G abuses battery life is not a real life scenario. I can think a couple of games that lag could be slightly reduced but other games with static motion (like chess) wont really see any benefit.

Clash of Clans man.  Clash of Clans.  It needs a reliable connection, otherwise your raids might not count, you get kicked, next thing you know you're getting attacked before you can reconnect :(

Clash of Clans man.  Clash of Clans.  It needs a reliable connection, otherwise your raids might not count, you get kicked, next thing you know you're getting attacked before you can reconnect :(

It looks like a real-time strategy (AOE) type of game. I thought those didnt need that much of bandwidth plus already had some kind of lag compensation.

That sounds more like bad programming than a 3G/4G issue. A game like that should NOWHERE reach the limit of 3G which is about 40 Mbps.

Anyways, thats another topic. This is for the OnePlus One and seeing what experiences people have had with the phone :) Im gonna get it Tuesday 10th 2015 (I thought MWC was shorter...)

I have a OnePlus One and disable 4g on it, 4g signal is pretty weak where am I so the phone just wastes more battery trying to keep a 0-1 bar 4g signal.

 

However on 3g I get a full HSAP+ signal everywhere, 10mbps on 3g is more than enough for me, streaming YouTube, Plex and BBC iPlayer on the go is perfectly fine with that.

 

At the moment in time 3g is more than enough for me.

It looks like a real-time strategy (AOE) type of game. I thought those didnt need that much of bandwidth plus already had some kind of lag compensation.

That sounds more like bad programming than a 3G/4G issue. A game like that should NOWHERE reach the limit of 3G which is about 40 Mbps.

Anyways, thats another topic. This is for the OnePlus One and seeing what experiences people have had with the phone :) Im gonna get it Tuesday 10th 2015 (I thought MWC was shorter...)

I think part of that is due to the anti-cheat functions they have in the game.  If you lose connectivity (which some people were doing on purpose to try and "practice" attacks), it just doesn't count anymore.  But anyway, my battery life has been decent.  Some days it's great, others it's not so great.  For the longest, the gmail app was killing my battery.  It was always using 25%+ of the battery with 3 email accounts set up (gmail, yahoo and a work exchange account).  I installed the new Outlook preview and set up my work and yahoo accounts in it and took them out of gmail, and it's not in the list anymore.  As far as 3G/4G, I've noticed that my LTE signal is noticeably weaker on my OPO than it was on my galaxy S4.  Overall it's still a great phone though.

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