Recent OnePlus phones... much cop?

[Fred Bloggs]

Interesting - just the thing I am in the market for - looks like the Nokia 6 (or even 6.1 apparently) is the way to go at just under £200.

I was looking at the Honor 9 lite but it maybe a bit flimsy...

Take a look at the Nokia then, it has a very nice alloy body. Feels very well screwed together for the money. Android One is very nice too. A worthy Nexus 5 replacement.

[DeludedKitten]

Unless it's desperate I'd leave it a few weeks - oneplus 6t is due out around October 14 so prices of used 5/5T/6 should drop.

Looks like October 17th it is - one day after Huawei have their launch event.

[Dark Black]

Well, it kind of depends. The died in the wool fanbois will no doubt buy Apple no matter the price. But when I can get perhaps four of my really very good Nokia Android phones for the price of one Apple device, I can't help feeling something is a little out of balance here. I can think of nothing the Nokia 6 (or the slightly pricier 8) doesn't do. Why on earth I would shell a thousand quid on a mobile phone is beyond my comprehension I'm afraid to say.

It's "dyed in the wool".

They might be necrophiliacs and have a thing about sheep?

Weird bunch those Apple fanbois...

[d000hg]

None of your 4 mid-range Android phones will be able to access the Apple App Store. For some that's a big deal.

I also doubt they have the same specs - I personally don't see the need for super-powerful CPUs and GPUs and 4k displays but you'd have to compare iPhone with high-end Androids to be completely fair, and they are not 1/4 of the price by far.

[cojak]

All I’d be after is better sound quality than my work’s Samsung A5, which i suspect wouldn’t be too difficult to achieve.

[Fred Bloggs]

All I’d be after is better sound quality than my work’s Samsung A5, which i suspect wouldn’t be too difficult to achieve.

Ah well, what you need is a modest but good Android phone (Nokia 6 or 8). Spend the money saved on not buying an Apple handset on a couple of Sonos 1's. Set up Apple Music (or whatever) on said android phone, stream music to Sonos 1's. Sorted. Very nice too and all for much less than a new iPhone.

[DeludedKitten]

If you want the 6 then I think that you'll see the website having them out of stock from the start of next month (which is what they did with previous models) though you might be able to pick one up at O2 or somewhere like that still.

The 6 is now completely sold out in France, Spain, Germany, Austria, Italy, Ireland, Denmark, Sweden, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus.

UK is out of stock for three of the five models available now.