BlueWolf Posted January 1, 2015 Report Share Posted January 1, 2015 I bought myself a present some time ago for finishing college and it finally arrived! I bought my previous phone (a Samsung S4 mini) nearly a year now and I've used it long enough to realise I want more from my phone and Samsung is not a company I want to stick with. So I got myself a OnePlus One! This is a very rare phone. You can only buy when you've received an invite. Why? Because it's a absolute brilliant phone for dirty cheap. The demand is too high for the production. When it did went for sale a few weeks ago, it was sold out in just a few minutes. So you can imagine I'm quite chuffed I managed to get my hands on this!! Here are some geeky facts. There are many, but here are the important ones: It has a 5.5 inch full HD screen. Runs on Cyanogenmod based on Android 4.4 (but 5.0 is coming along the way), had 3GB memory, 64GB(!!) internal storage. A 2.5GHz quad-core cpu. Has a 13 megapixel camera and can film in 4K and slowmotion. And on top of that it has a massive 3100mAh battery. Enough to power all of this multiple days if needed. So far I haven't found anything it cannot handle. On my Mini the system would halt when it was updating in the background. With this it doesn't even stutter when it does that. Just now I was watching a high quality movie on my phone, while casting it on the tv simultaneously. Even when the screen is off I can draw gestures on the screen do make it do certain things (like toggling the light) and now I finally have a lock screen that automatically unlocks when I'm home (I needed that one!). Cyanogenmod allows you to change every single bit of your system until it meets your exact needs. No added and unremovable crap (like Samsung does all the time), just very to the point. It's amazing with so many options and I haven't even rooted my phone yet (which is super easy on this device, and doesn't void my warranty either!) I still can't believe I paid only €300 for it, which is the same as what I paid for my S4 mini last year which looks slow and tiny compared to this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emma Posted January 1, 2015 Report Share Posted January 1, 2015 Most of that is totally lost on me but looks and sounds like a good phone to me even if I am a bit clueless! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Posted January 1, 2015 Report Share Posted January 1, 2015 WOW sounds like an awesome phone, and the pic you posted in the other thread was nice and clear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueWolf Posted January 1, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 1, 2015 Most of that is totally lost on me but looks and sounds like a good phone to me even if I am a bit clueless! Well, consider that when I told my grandmother this even SHE got jealous of me and now wants one for herself as well. That should say a lot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted January 1, 2015 Report Share Posted January 1, 2015 Would love to have a play with one of these to see what they are like Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robke Posted January 1, 2015 Report Share Posted January 1, 2015 does look good... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clare70 Posted January 1, 2015 Report Share Posted January 1, 2015 You are all sad phone freaks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mydiamond Posted January 1, 2015 Report Share Posted January 1, 2015 Nice features and all, but that is a wonderful name for a very complicated little thing! :D Sorry, I'm a different kind of nerd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueWolf Posted January 2, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 2, 2015 Not really used it too much yet but this phone can shoot photos in raw format! That wasn't even advertised but that's the best thing ever (or at least for me as a photographer). I've been using my phone all day and I still have 40% battery left. I'm impressed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted January 2, 2015 Report Share Posted January 2, 2015 Bigger battery in them than most phones. Think the only one I have seen with a similar size is the note Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xLOBOx Posted January 3, 2015 Report Share Posted January 3, 2015 That looks really cool! I had a Samsung Galaxy S4 for about two months before getting rid of it and going back to Apple for the iPhone 5S. Samsung just wasn't my cup of tea. I'll have to look into that phone, sounds interesting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunc Posted January 3, 2015 Report Share Posted January 3, 2015 Cool phone Jos alomst as good as the note I just put Lollipop on mine this morning Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted January 4, 2015 Report Share Posted January 4, 2015 Decided after reading this I would take the plunge and root my own phone and add cyanogenmod to it instead. Its a lot better without all the rubbish you get on from samsung I must say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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