OnePlus 3T gets shelved in North America and Europe

Preparing for the release of the OnePlus 5, OnePlus has opted to stop selling the OnePlus 3T eight months after they first announced it. This isn’t the first time OnePlus has been weird about its release cycle. When the OnePlus 3T came out, the OnePlus 3 got discontinued after just being released for a few months. It will still be sold in India and other Asian countries but outside of that region, we’d all have to wait for the OnePlus 5, which is set to come out next week on June 20^th.

Source: TechnoBuffalo

OnePlus CEO teases black and white photo sample taken by the OnePlus 5

The camera is looking like a big selling point for the OnePlus 5, as a previous teaser suggests. This time we’re finding out more about the upcoming “flagship killer” and its camera’s capabilities. OnePlus’s CEO Liu ZuoTu uploaded on Weibo a monochrome shot taken by the smartphone. It shows off how similar the dual camera setup of the OnePlus 5 will be with the Huawei P series. From the looks of the image, it’s looking like a pretty promising device, in terms of photography.

While we don’t know the specs of the device yet, some of the rumoured features include a 5.5-inch AMOLED display with 2,560 x 1,440 resolution, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor, 6/8GB of RAM, 64/128GB of storage, and it’ll run on Android 7.1.1 Nougat operating system. Camera specs are said to be a 16MP + 16MP setup in the rear as well as a 16MP front camera.

Source: Giz China

OnePlus 2 isn’t getting the Android Nougat update

After saying before that OnePlus 2 was getting Android Nougat update, unfortunately OnePlus is taking it back now. The news comes after OnePlus previously said there would be 24-month update support and that they would be bringing it to the operating system. There seems to be a lack of communication on part of the company as one OnePlus moderator was still writing about the update coming in their forum as recently as the end of May.

When asked what the reason was for the update not arriving, OnePlus said, “When we built the OnePlus 2 we didn’t have the software infrastructure team in place we do now.” This places the blame at the convergence of the Hydrogen and Oxygen teams for the lack of the update. All of this just reminds us that OEMs have to stop promising things that they can’t deliver in the end.

Source: Android Authority

OnePlus all but shows what the OnePlus 5 looks like (at least from the back)

OnePlus isn’t a company that keeps its secrets that close to the chest. Back when the OnePlus 2 was announced, they revealed the new features of the phone ahead of its launch. So, when a leaked image of the OnePlus 5’s top half of its rear shows up, the company releases a high-resolution version of the image that shows the dual-camera setup, the mute switch, and what it’ll look like on top. OnePlus attaches to the image the tagline “Dual Camera. Clearer Photos.” And we have to say it looks eerily similar to the new iPhones. OnePlus is unveiling its new flagship on June 20 at 12 p.m. EDT.

Source: Android Authority