OnePlus One Still The Top Cost-Efficient Smartphone In Spite Limited Availability, OnePlus Two In The Works?
OnePlus One is the Android smartphone which boldly referred to itself as the flagship killer of 2014. But in spite boasting superior specs and a very attractive price tag, it is difficult to achieve that claim if the phone does not arrive in the majority of the market this year.
Announced at a press event last March, the OnePlus One smartphone is developed by the CyanogenMod team headed by Steve Kondik, and during the several weeks it has been teased and promoted, we all knew it was something special.
But 'special' things arrive to those who wait, and so a few thousand fans all over the world are still waiting for the OnePlus One release date.
Interestingly, in a new report by Phandroid, notorious leakster EV Leaks tweeted that the OnePlus team is already working on the phone's successor, despite the fact that it hasn't arrived in its target markets yet.
Dubbed fittingly as the OnePlus Two, the smartphone is reported to be nicknamed Lettuce. Originally, the OnePlus One was referred to as Bacon, or so the rumor says. With Bacon and Lettuce, the start-up company is basically creating an electronic sandwich and do not be surprised if OnePlus Three would be codenamed Tomato or Pickles.
Surely, the OnePlus Two would be an upgrade to the already impressive spec sheet of the OnePlus One. Currently, the device is the only one which runs on CyanogenMod out of the box and is getting nightlies through its pool of developers.
Some specs of the device include a 5.5-inch display with Full HD (1920 x 1080) screen resolution, a Snapdragon 801 chipset, quad-core CPU running at 2.5GHz (matches the Xperia Z2 and Galaxy S5) and a 3GB of RAM (among the first five smartphones in 2014 to get more than 3GB RAM).
Other specs include a 13MP primary camera at the back, and a 5MP front cam. Storage options are 16GB and 64GB with no microSD expansion.
The price is particularly attractive at below $400, though we doubt that would still be a factor if the phone arrives after the iPhone 6.