OnePlus X
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How long have you been waiting?
To be fair, the delivery on mine was pretty express, considering its origin.
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I've just had a DHL text this morning, ordered Friday - it sounds like they aren't the best at sending the notifications though...
So I've been using mine all weekend, and wanted to do a wee comparison to the Lenovo Vibe Shot I have been using for the past 2 months.
Vibe Shot pros:
Better camera, especially in low-light (video and stills)
Double the onboard memory
Dual-sim with separate sd slot (unlike the shared on the OPX)
Larger battery
Dedicated camera button
Feels slightly better in my hand, possible due to being a bit heavier
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Capacitive buttons light up
OPX pros:
AMOLED screen. Not that the IPS on the Lenovo is bad, in fact it's very good, I just find that after almost half a decade of AMOLED devices (S2, S4 Mini, Tab 7.7, 8.4 Tab S) I just prefer having black being black.
Slightly nippier, though I'm not sure if that is a 801 vs 615 thing, or down to the ROMs
LED notifications
Now arguably, this should be expected as the Lenovo cost 40%/£80 more than the OPX, but in all honesty, I have totally succumb to the cult of OLED, haha, so now trying to sell the Lenovo.
Vibe Shot pros:
Better camera, especially in low-light (video and stills)
Double the onboard memory
Dual-sim with separate sd slot (unlike the shared on the OPX)
Larger battery
Dedicated camera button
Feels slightly better in my hand, possible due to being a bit heavier
64-bit
Capacitive buttons light up
OPX pros:
AMOLED screen. Not that the IPS on the Lenovo is bad, in fact it's very good, I just find that after almost half a decade of AMOLED devices (S2, S4 Mini, Tab 7.7, 8.4 Tab S) I just prefer having black being black.
Slightly nippier, though I'm not sure if that is a 801 vs 615 thing, or down to the ROMs
LED notifications
Now arguably, this should be expected as the Lenovo cost 40%/£80 more than the OPX, but in all honesty, I have totally succumb to the cult of OLED, haha, so now trying to sell the Lenovo.
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have they committed to a M release schedule on the X then?
5.1, ROW ROM didn't seem bloated to me, still way faster than any ROM I ran on my S2 and S4 Mini.
They said they are working on it ,just no timeframe yet.
https://forums.oneplus.net/threads/marshmallow-upgrade-schedule-for-oneplus-devices.406778/
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Just got my invite not sure wether to use it and see if i like the phone or not as i have jsut picked up a N6
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Whoop
DHL attempted delivery, but obviously I'm at work
Does anyone know what happens now? Not had too many dealings with DHL
Looking at the website it just lists service points not depots?
DHL attempted delivery, but obviously I'm at work
Does anyone know what happens now? Not had too many dealings with DHL
Looking at the website it just lists service points not depots?
They should have sent a text with info about a redelivery or collection.
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Thanks guys,
No text, email, nowt
Phoned them up and they are able to deliver to a local shop. Going to fetch it after work today.
No text, email, nowt
Phoned them up and they are able to deliver to a local shop. Going to fetch it after work today.
I also ordered on morning of release... took literally a week to turn up. But hey ho, on the flipside i got yet another OP2 invite linked to my OP account, that's handy
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Collected my phone last night
Excellent build quality despite the low price point. Here's my initial thoughts
Pros
Build Quality
Performance is more than acceptable, no lag and very snappy
Factory fitted screen protector
Case whilst cheap, I kinda like it
Swipes work every time (circle for camera, v for torch)
Bluetooth fully supports my car (even spotify info shows up)
Looks like a big iphone 5s....which I personally think is a good thing (love the look myself)
Cons
Whilst the SDcard is detected (both Fat32 & NTFS work) it's simply unusable. The Camera app is unable to save photos to it, and it doesn't show up in the settings menu. The only way to access it is via the file manager app. Oneplus say they are working on a fix, but this should have been done prior to launch
Bluetooth misses some contacts in the car, couple of reboots and they come back
No facebook notifications, it's enabled but just doesn't work
The age old kitkat android bug is still there. On newly setup devices, when updating apps on the store they hang. You have to close and go back into it. This does it on all nexus and moto devices as well. Samsung have fixed it though.
If the phone goes to sleep whilst updating apps, they pause. This may be the phone cutting off wifi to save battery but it should be clever to know it's half way through an update.
Old version of the play store. The new one is much better.
Picking up the phone, or making a gesture is supposed to wake up the phone. This never works.
The buttons at the bottom don't light up. You can have on screen buttons, but who on earth wants two sets of buttons on a phone.
No Google Now when swiping left, which I thought it did watching some youtube videos. Have made do with the widget, but I've noticed since the latest google search update this is a bit hit and miss. The cards showing up under the static search box is great, but the actual widget isn't as good anymore.
ROM has both google and swiftkey keyboards. WHY!!!! I really hate this. If I want another keyboard I'll download one. Don't inject two keyboards into the rom please. It's like others shipping two browsers, two calendars, two mail apps. Really annoying! They have also installed the Google office suite of apps as well, again....with only 16gb memory it's stuff many people don't want. Since my employer has office 365 I use onedrive, outlook, onenote etc etc which is best with office apps. Now my phone has two office suites, google and microsoft. Since google are integrated into the rom, it's wasting memory. They could easily put store shortcuts on instead so the end user can download if they chose.
Bean emoticons need to die lol
To sum up, hardware is fantastic, rom needs some work. Brilliant for £199, very happy with it. I could give my galaxy s6 to the wife and not be angry using the oneplus x
Excellent build quality despite the low price point. Here's my initial thoughts
Pros
Build Quality
Performance is more than acceptable, no lag and very snappy
Factory fitted screen protector
Case whilst cheap, I kinda like it
Swipes work every time (circle for camera, v for torch)
Bluetooth fully supports my car (even spotify info shows up)
Looks like a big iphone 5s....which I personally think is a good thing (love the look myself)
Cons
Whilst the SDcard is detected (both Fat32 & NTFS work) it's simply unusable. The Camera app is unable to save photos to it, and it doesn't show up in the settings menu. The only way to access it is via the file manager app. Oneplus say they are working on a fix, but this should have been done prior to launch
Bluetooth misses some contacts in the car, couple of reboots and they come back
No facebook notifications, it's enabled but just doesn't work
The age old kitkat android bug is still there. On newly setup devices, when updating apps on the store they hang. You have to close and go back into it. This does it on all nexus and moto devices as well. Samsung have fixed it though.
If the phone goes to sleep whilst updating apps, they pause. This may be the phone cutting off wifi to save battery but it should be clever to know it's half way through an update.
Old version of the play store. The new one is much better.
Picking up the phone, or making a gesture is supposed to wake up the phone. This never works.
The buttons at the bottom don't light up. You can have on screen buttons, but who on earth wants two sets of buttons on a phone.
No Google Now when swiping left, which I thought it did watching some youtube videos. Have made do with the widget, but I've noticed since the latest google search update this is a bit hit and miss. The cards showing up under the static search box is great, but the actual widget isn't as good anymore.
ROM has both google and swiftkey keyboards. WHY!!!! I really hate this. If I want another keyboard I'll download one. Don't inject two keyboards into the rom please. It's like others shipping two browsers, two calendars, two mail apps. Really annoying! They have also installed the Google office suite of apps as well, again....with only 16gb memory it's stuff many people don't want. Since my employer has office 365 I use onedrive, outlook, onenote etc etc which is best with office apps. Now my phone has two office suites, google and microsoft. Since google are integrated into the rom, it's wasting memory. They could easily put store shortcuts on instead so the end user can download if they chose.
Bean emoticons need to die lol
To sum up, hardware is fantastic, rom needs some work. Brilliant for £199, very happy with it. I could give my galaxy s6 to the wife and not be angry using the oneplus x
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Many Android phones I have used disable app updates when the screen is turned off.
The gesture always works for me but you have to wave quite close to the top of the screen in quite a long motion.
The gesture always works for me but you have to wave quite close to the top of the screen in quite a long motion.