OnePlus 5T runs out of stock in North America

If you were contemplating on getting a OnePlus 5T, you might have run out of luck. Engadget has confirmed with the company that they have run out of stock for the smartphone in just four months and they had no plans to restock the units. The company set aside a specific number of units per market and once that number is reached, they didn’t have plans to restock. OnePlus claims they hadn’t expected to reach that number until another few weeks, indicating a stronger-than-expected demand for the phone. Now, either you try to look for re-sellers or used phones to get one, that our you can wait for the rumoured OnePlus 6, which is expected to come out in the second quarter of the year.

OnePlus 6 specs get leaked

OnePlus 6 isn’t coming out soon but speculation about what will power the device is already going around. The Verge reports about a post on Chinese site Weibo that enumerates the specs of the upcoming OnePlus flagship. And it looks like it has the specs of a 2018 phone, as expected. It’ll supposedly have a 6.2-inch display with a notch and it’ll run on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor, 8GB of RAM, and up to 256GB of storage. The OnePlus 6 is rumoured to be getting dual rear-facing cameras one will be a 12-megapixel sensor and the other a 20-megapixel one. It will also supposedly have OnePlus’s proprietary Dash Charge feature. As for its looks, The Verge speculates it could look like the OPPO R15 with both companies sharing the same owner. But the leaked photo of the device shows at least a different design for the rear.

OnePlus copies Xiaomi and pits OxygenOS against pure Android in Twitter poll, loses gracefully

Nothing beats pure Android experience, at least for a lot of users. Chinese company Xiaomi set to find out if its own MIUI 9 interface can beat out the pure Android One UI. Android One beat out MIUI 9 with the final result at 57% for Android One and the MIUI 9 getting 43%. While the results were expected, especially with Android fans wanting to get as close to stock Android as they can get, Xiaomi’s response was curious. The company deleted the poll three days after it put it up on February 7, perhaps out of shame for losing.

A couple of days after Xiaomi took down the poll, OnePlus seemed to have wanted to try the same thing out. The results were almost similar to Xiaomi’s with 58% leaning towards pure Android and 42% for OxygenOS. But OnePlus was a more gracious loser as evidenced by what happened after. The company’s CEO Carl Pei tweeted “Don’t delete this poll,” taking a jab perhaps at Xiaomi’s response to its results. The OnePlus employee who put up the poll even said they appreciated the response and that it “motivates” them to work on OxygenOS more.

Thanks for an overwhelming amount of responses. I've read all your comments. Appreciate the positive and, especially, negative ones. It motivates us for further work on OxygenOS and helps improving the product. Cheers!

— Szymon Kopeć 📱🇵🇱 (@szymonkopec) February 14, 2018

 

Source: Android Authority

OnePlus releases OxygenOS Open Beta 3 for the 5T, introduces iPhone X-like gestures and removes Clipboard

The latest beta build for the OnePlus 5T brings some important new features to the device. One addresses the controversial issue surrounding the Clipboard functionality of the phone. The Chinese company simply took out the feature, which they say they’ve done based on user feedback. Aside from this, OxygenOS Open Beta 3 introduces new navigation gestures that are reminiscent of the iPhone X’s. You can activate these through Settings and disabling the navigation bar. The Home button vanishes and you can swipe up from the middle part of the bottom of the display to access apps. You can go back by swiping up from the left or right bottom part of the screen. If you want to access the multitasking screen, you just swipe up from the middle and hold.

OnePlus has also included a security patch to get additional protection against Spectre vulnerability alongside other bug fixes and improvements. If you’re already using beta, the update should come to your device via an over-the-air update. If you want to try beta out, you’ll need to read flashing instructions from this link.

Source: GSMArena