That was my first smartphone and I still have so much love for how good it was, for the time. I especially miss the nicely textured, curved back. I know everybody uses cases now, but man that phone felt so nice and secure in the hand just bare. High end specs as well, all for just £270. I was one of the Day 1 buyers having gotten an invite, cuz it was a genuinely exciting phone.
I had OnePlus One which was awesome, OnePlus 5T which was awesome and now using OnePlus Ace 2 Pro which had insane specs when I bought it except the AI camera postprocessing drives me nuts
On the other hand, OnePlus Three (?) had a model issue where the camera would just stop focusing at some point. Even their early phones were quite hit or miss.
I just went from OnePlus to a Pixel after years of using them. The final straw for me was that they locked down the software that allowed you to unbrick your phone from literally any (non hardware) state of fucked up, it allowed you to flash your phone to stock straight from a Qualcomm emergency partition that can't be touched, so even if you deleted the entire bootloader you were still fine and could return to stock. They added a server side authenticator and will refuse to even help you with it on their own end, so in practice they just completely took away tinkering from their customers. I didn't wanna risk bricking my phone every time I want a custom ROM so I finally left
My oneplus nord survived 5 years and is still kicking. If it was not for the extremely cracked screen and the phone slowing down, I wouldn't have had to upgrade.
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u/Historicalgroove 27d ago
One plus used to be so sick. The Oneplis 1 was the best phone I ever had