One Plus One mobile phone
 

Hi all, Anyone heard of this phone? http://oneplus.net/uk I have just ordered one on Saturday (it is not as simple as ordering any other phone!) Just wondering what people's views are on this phone.

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Funnily enough I've just been reading a review of this phone:

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/...-and-unlocked/

It got a good review, but I'm surprised you've been able to get one - it says in the review that you need an invitation before you can buy one.

Apart from that, it looks a solid (even a bargain) smartphone from a Chinese company looking to expand in the west. Highlights include a big screen, great battery life, low price, and the use of CyanogenMod as the default OS.

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Yeah getting an invite was tough - I got lucky as someone had a spare invite and I was first to claim the code. The phone has not shipped yet - I think I will get it by the end of this week.

I saw the reviews and the price and I needed to upgrade my S2 (was having battery and other issues)

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The specs looked superb when I first heard about the phone and people wanting invites but over time I wondered if the specs would be out of date by the time they actually shipped. Seems to have taken them forever to actually build them since first announced.

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sounds like a good phone for the price. let us know when you get your phone.
how it was.

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Considering buying one myself and getting rid of this shockingly bad Sony Xperia Z2, that now seems to not want to accept calls when the Wi-Fi is turned on and left in sleep mode for more than 10 minutes at random times.

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Got the phone today... and it's amazing! From the packaging to the phone itself. The phone is very light and does not seem that big once in your hand. It is superfast too. I have not used Cyanogen mod before but I don't think it will be too difficult to get used to it ;)

I did upgrade from a Samsung Galaxy S2, so maybe any new phone would have seemed good to me :P

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Cyanogen mod is the best custom rom I have used on any phone

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Anyone got one of these phones and use it on the 3 network? What's the 4G speeds like?

Was tempted to get one of these phones but heard that they don't support band 20, which Three uses for part of their signal. Wondered how that worked and what effect it would have on speed/internet?

Three has upgraded my area for 4G but still with the non-4G version of the S3. Speeds are great anyway but if the 4G is comparable with this phone, worth upgrading for the price and those specs. No point having unlimited 4G if it's worse than HSDPA though.

Must be someone with one of these phones who knows :)

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Be aware three now cap tethering :(

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After recent events I have decided that I am not going to buy one of these, as I cannot support a company that would do the things this company has done.

The phone does seem to be really good based on reviews, but I think spec wise now it's not going to be much different from something like a Note 4.

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From what I know the 4G speeds are excellent. However on 3 you will not always be able to get 4G because of the Band 20 issue. I am on Tesco mobile which uses o2 so I don't get 4G speeds at all, however I read about the 3 4G speeds on the One Plus forum.

It's an excellent phone. I am happy with using this phone even without having 4G speeds.

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What has the company done?

It's similar spec to the new phones but less than half price. 3GB memory, 4k + highspeed/slo-mo video recording+all those features on a v.nice 5.5" screen for just over £200 is much better than the £500+ for similar phones.

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What I can't seem to find out is if some areas Three use band 20 but other areas use a different band, or if all their areas use both bands but you miss out on something through not having on of them.

Specs are great but want my next phone to support 4G as i'll likely stick with it for the next 2 or 3 years. Part of the reason the 3GB memory was appealing.

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From what I know, some areas of 3 use band 20 - which is where you will not get 4G, otherwise you will get 4G. Areas do not have both bands. You could wait till next year for One Plus Two which I believe will not have this Band 20 issue. The question is, can you wait? I had a Samsung Galaxy S2 which was barely working and so I really needed a new phone. I was not fussed about 4G so this was a no brainer for me. If you can wait I would wait for the One Plus Two.

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what is band 20?

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800Mhz frequenzy. The other 4G frequencies in the Uk are 1800Mhz and 2.6Ghz. From what I can work out EE has all it's network on 1800Mhz. I think Three has different frequencies in different areas, although i'm not 100% sure of that and was part of what I was hoping to find out.

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This might explain it

https://forums.oneplus.net/threads/c...te-bands.1065/

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3 do not currently use any band 20 as part of their network, and even once they eventually do, it will be the slowest band and probably only used for voice calls anyway.

Therefore the lack of band 20 is pretty much a non-issue, unless you later plan on moving to either Vodafone or O2.

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Unfortunately that article is mostly bollocks, as far as the UK is concerned. Where it is isn't downright wrong, it's still highly misleading.

Two networks use band 20 across the whole UK. The biggest UK network uses only band 20, everywhere. Band 20 also provides the best coverage in cities, irrespective of the fact that, well it provides the only coverage on cities right now on the first and third biggest UK networks.

Furthermore, the speed isn't limited to 50Mbps as they claim, both UK band-20 networks operate up to 75Mbps networks (and yes, I have personally done speed tests of 72Mbps+ on them). These networks are also the networks with the least 42Mbps DC-HSPA+ to fall back on.

Irrespective of that, although DC-HSPA+ provides up to 42Mbps download speeds, or a little over half of that of Band 20 LTE, it only 5Mbps upload speeds, less than one fifth of band 20 LTE (25-30Mbps), and has much higher control-plane latency.

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Have a look here for what they have done.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/netapp/2...us-one-bad-pr/

Honestly it's petty things, but for a company to decide to do that and then not only decide to do the whole invite only thing, makes them worse than Apple and they are already one of the worst companies in my oppinion.



To the whole 4G thing, the speeds on 4G are good but considering the poxy allowance of data on the plans, I am glad I don't have 4G at the moment because I could quite easily use my months, allowance in a day.

5G will be interesting though with speeds of 1Gb, 4G is limited though by the amount of people connecting to a mast and also the chips and storage, in the phone as nearly all the 4G masts have 1Gb fed to them.

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Just because you personally use absurd amounts of data doesn't mean 4G plans are poxy. The average usage per person across everyone in the UK is between 1.5GB and 3GB per month (and that's including mobile broadband users). 4G plans start at 0.5GB and go up to 20GB, with a couple smaller providers offering unlimited 4G for less than £15 am onth.

Not only that, 4G data plans provide twice as much data as the average person uses, for less money than they are already paying for 3G.

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Just ordered the 64GB Sandstone Black model.

They will be launching a pre-order system in October for a limited time period.

http://oneplus.net/blog/2014/09/the-...-order-system/

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Sorry to drag up an old(ish) thread, just wondering if the OP got one and if so what did they think?

I've been offered an invite and was also wondering if not being able to pickup band 20 would cause me issues in the future