Reply to: OnePlus 5

[eek]

There seems to be a slight flaw in the phones software. Making an emergency 911 / 999 call results in the phone rebooting itself

https://www.reddit.com/r/oneplus/com...sterday_saw_a/

[TheFaQQer]

Shame, now I'll have to find a new mid-price phone next time round... I'd have loved to stick with the 1+

You're unlikely to find a top-spec phone at a mid-range price any more.

[d000hg]

They abandoned the budget line with the OPT - prices have gone up and up since then, in the same way the Nexus 6P is more than the Nexus 6, the 5 and the 4 (4 was crazy stupid pricing, 5 was OK, 6 way too expensive).

3T cost £439 for the 128GB model, so it's 13% more than the phone I bought in January.

Pixel with 128GB is £699, Pixel XL with 128GB is £819

Shame, now I'll have to find a new mid-price phone next time round... I'd have loved to stick with the 1+

[original PM]

Thinking on it, I have a brand new Moto G4 on my desk if you're interested - might be locked to Tesco but I can check that. My daughter dropped her old one so we got an insurance replacement, and then she was out of contract a couple of days later so it's never even been switched on.

Got my daughter the G4 Play for xmas - huge battery life and a perfectly good phone.

Think I got it for £80 in a black friday deal

[TheFaQQer]

Motorola Moto Gn (whatever the latest number is) - my family have had the 3, 4 and 5 at different stages and they are nice phones, near stock Android and quite cheap.

Thinking on it, I have a brand new Moto G3 on my desk if you're interested - might be locked to Tesco but I can check that. My daughter dropped her old one so we got an insurance replacement, and then she was out of contract a couple of days later so it's never even been switched on.

[TheFaQQer]

whilst price is a factor, the main point to me is the operating system...OnePlus bespoke OS is not something I got on with

Which one - they had two. OPO (and possibly OPT) runs Cyanogenmod, 3 onwards runs Oxygen OS which is pretty good.

Though one tip that I learned with the OPT is to set a password rather than a number / pattern / fingerprint if you are encrypting the device. I forgot that with the 3T and ended up having to do a factory reset after an update locked it and asked for a fingerprint on a text screen.

I moved from OPT to Nexus 6P and then back to 3T because the 6P kept acting up.

[TheFaQQer]

I regretfully fear we have seen the last of the breed with the Nexus 5. I am still wondering what my next phone will be. A 1+ or a Wiley Fox looked favourite, but much less so now. I don't know of anything where I can get a vanilla android device at a fair price any more.

Motorola Moto Gn (whatever the latest number is) - my family have had the 3, 4 and 5 at different stages and they are nice phones, near stock Android and quite cheap.

[Alias]

whilst price is a factor, the main point to me is the operating system...OnePlus bespoke OS is not something I got on with

[Fred Bloggs]

They abandoned the budget line with the OPT - prices have gone up and up since then, in the same way the Nexus 6P is more than the Nexus 6, the 5 and the 4 (4 was crazy stupid pricing, 5 was OK, 6 stupid).

3T cost £439 for the 128GB model, so it's 13% more than the phone I bought in January.

I regretfully fear we have seen the last of the breed with the Nexus 5. I am still wondering what my next phone will be. A 1+ or a Wiley Fox looked favourite, but much less so now. I don't know of anything where I can get a vanilla android device at a fair price any more.

[TheFaQQer]

So much for budget flagship killer then. That's about 50% up on the 1+3 which was the last full version only one year ago (I got mine in July for £309). £450 puts it outside the reach of a huge swath of their previous market, surely?

My 1+3 has 6Gb RAM and 64Gb storage. Given the 1+5 has prices "from £449", RAM "up to 8Gb" and storage "up to 128Gb" it sounds like that 50% price hike merely gets you a better camera (and a better CPU but thats par for the course without changing price point).

They abandoned the budget line with the OPT - prices have gone up and up since then, in the same way the Nexus 6P is more than the Nexus 6, the 5 and the 4 (4 was crazy stupid pricing, 5 was OK, 6 way too expensive).

3T cost £439 for the 128GB model, so it's 13% more than the phone I bought in January.

Pixel with 128GB is £699, Pixel XL with 128GB is £819

[SueEllen]

Hopefully they will start paying UK VAT rather than lying about their agents paying it.

[Alias]

I wouldn't, rather get a pixel

[d000hg]

From £449

So much for budget flagship killer then. That's about 50% up on the 1+3 which was the last full version only one year ago (I got mine in July for £309). £450 puts it outside the reach of a huge swath of their previous market, surely?

My 1+3 has 6Gb RAM and 64Gb storage. Given the 1+5 has prices "from £449", RAM "up to 8Gb" and storage "up to 128Gb" it sounds like that 50% price hike merely gets you a better camera (and a better CPU but thats par for the course without changing price point).

[Inv]

Would be interested to know how this holds up against the U11.

[TheFaQQer]

From £449

Anyone who didn't watch the launch event who wants to go for the early drop (dispatch from tomorrow, a week early), I have the code to get access to it.