The Official OnePlus 6 Thread

Nerusy · 21 May 2018 at 16:14

Slam said:
I went in and bought a phone. I had to queue around two corners, took me 1 hour 10 mins to get in. There was the 10 min queue inside too. When I left, exit was out the back, so I walked past where I’d queued, the only people left were the ones out front at the first bit.

Security had a count of people and at 3pm they had let 329 people on so far.

Did not think it would clear up that fast, the only reason I went so early was because I thought they would run out of phones, oh well.

Slam said:
I got a free bag with tshirt and cap.

It would seem they ran out of free cases and laptop sleeves. Well at least there was some benefit to queue for 2 and half hours.

On a separate note, I got my phone set up now, coming from dates iPhone 6 I am very happy with the phone, my old phone looks and feels so tiny now.

Needles · 21 May 2018 at 16:23

Shocky-FM said:
I wouldn't say they were competing, the Galaxy S9+ is superior where it matters and price reflects that. OnePlus 6 is cheaper but I'm not sure I would say it was better value.

Increased memory beyond 6GB is just marketing for a phone and storage depends on the user, Galaxy S9+ also has the sdcard slot.

Well to be fair, the Exynos version of the S9 we get in the UK is pretty poor this year. The Snapdragon 845 is a superior SOC, so it bests it in that arena. That and speed of OS updates is better also.

I would have stayed with Samsung except for the poor SOC version this year.

Shocky-FM · 21 May 2018 at 16:49

Needles said:
Well to be fair, the Exynos version of the S9 we get in the UK is pretty poor this year. The Snapdragon 845 is a superior SOC, so it bests it in that arena. That and speed of OS updates is better also.

I would have stayed with Samsung except for the poor SOC version this year.

Performance isn't really an area we're struggling with right now so it doesn't really matter, battery life is more important.

In terms of performance SD820 would be more than enough for most apps on the store, basically the software hasn't caught up yet.

kona786 · 21 May 2018 at 17:06

Shocky-FM said:
Performance isn't really an area we're struggling with right now so it doesn't really matter, battery life is more important.

In terms of performance SD820 would be more than enough for most apps on the store, basically the software hasn't caught up yet.

My oneplus 5 feels faster than any sd820 based phones I've tried. And funnily enough it's feels even faster and smoother than the Galaxy S9. The battery life is just as impressive.

I don't rate the Galaxy phones much at all these days. I dislike their curved screens and software bloat.

Gideon Moss · 21 May 2018 at 17:07

Got mine this afternoon went to the pop up store in Shoreditch and waited 2 hours to buy a phone - need my head looked at.

Jacksonn · 21 May 2018 at 17:12

Any chance people could be kind enough to use;

https://www.oneplus.com/6-sweepstakes?referralCode=d4u1wp00

icey_haj · 21 May 2018 at 17:22

Gideon Moss said:
Got mine this afternoon went to the pop up store in Shoreditch and waited 2 hours to buy a phone - need my head looked at.

It was that busy?

Shocky-FM · 21 May 2018 at 17:49

kona786 said:
My oneplus 5 feels faster than any sd820 based phones I've tried. And funnily enough it's feels even faster and smoother than the Galaxy S9. The battery life is just as impressive.

I don't rate the Galaxy phones much at all these days. I dislike their curved screens and software bloat.

My OnePlus 3 feels more or less the same as my OnePlus 5T and my old Galaxy S8+, no difference in any games either. Sure you could tell the difference in speedtests and game loading times but that's not something you'll notice in everyday usage.

Seems more like a placebo effect imo, only thing the Galaxy S8+ sucked at was multitasking.

The last upgrade that actually made a difference was SD810/E7420 to SD820/E8890, since then it just hasn't made any noticeable difference, Android games are still basic and the apps are mostly rubbish as well.

Modern phones are more powerful than the Nintendo Switch for gaming yet 99% of the games on the market are trash.

Gideon Moss · 21 May 2018 at 17:50

icey_haj said:
It was that busy?

No it was that badly planned, they had 5 desks taking your money you then had to wait to get handed your phone, took about an hour to get into the "event" i arrived at about 11:45am a further hour was spent inside trying to buy the phone and then waiting to receive it, it would seem that whilst they trust the hired event staff to handle the payments they don't trust them to hand out phones.

Slam · 21 May 2018 at 18:03

I think the whole event was managed to create queues and some excitement for the purpose of promotion on social media. The world we live in.

Nerusy · 21 May 2018 at 18:19

Running Netflix test pattern is showing 1280x720 in the top right corner (when zoomed out) so seems to be streaming in HD.

Mideon · 21 May 2018 at 18:43

Why the hell is the O2 price inflated. Will order from the Oneplus website.

Jacksonn · 21 May 2018 at 18:51

And you cant get the bigger memory from o2 either.

icey_haj · 21 May 2018 at 19:02

Gideon Moss said:
No it was that badly planned, they had 5 desks taking your money you then had to wait to get handed your phone, took about an hour to get into the "event" i arrived at about 11:45am a further hour was spent inside trying to buy the phone and then waiting to receive it, it would seem that whilst they trust the hired event staff to handle the payments they don't trust them to hand out phones.

Hmm. Must have been annoying. Did you get any free merch?

Gideon Moss · 21 May 2018 at 20:07

icey_haj said:
Hmm. Must have been annoying. Did you get any free merch?

A cap a hat and a bag - for me these are a complete waste of money. It was quite interesting to see that the crowd there was mostly male if you wanted to do IT recruitment it was certainly a captive audience. I'd never had gone only my Oneplus X has died a death and I wanted a new phone super quick.

benparker · 22 May 2018 at 08:52

Needles said:
Well to be fair, the Exynos version of the S9 we get in the UK is pretty poor this year. The Snapdragon 845 is a superior SOC, so it bests it in that arena. That and speed of OS updates is better also.

I would have stayed with Samsung except for the poor SOC version this year.

Well if you import the S9, you cab get the SD845 variant. Its also about £200 cheaper than Samsung UK.

Really in 2 minds about buying OP6. Let's see what the HTC U12 is priced like and then the Mi 8, both to be announced tomorrow.

Axel40 · 22 May 2018 at 09:36

My referral link for £20 off accessories if anyone is buying today!

https://www.oneplus.com/ie/invite#II68JNSTYTVDOG0

biron_w · 22 May 2018 at 09:47

Axel40 said:
My referral link for £20 off accessories if anyone is buying today!

https://www.oneplus.com/ie/invite#II68JNSTYTVDOG0

Nice! Will use that for a case and screen protector.

Deluxe1 · 22 May 2018 at 09:52

What is everyone ordering?

Deluxe1 · 22 May 2018 at 10:05

Payment page is messed up.

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