Have OnePlus been listening to fans requests for a smaller phone? And are these images proof that a smaller, cheaper OnePlus One Mini is under testing?
According to a recent interview with OnePlus, we can expect their replacement for the OnePlus One around Summer of 2015, but what about a smaller, cheaper OnePlus phone like a OnePlus One Mini?
Apparently the photos we have here are of an engineering prototype of a Mini OnePlus One undergoing testing in China. The alleged phone is said to cost only 1499 Yuan and will come with a smaller 5-inch display and run a Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 processor.
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The issue we have with the leak is that Antutu on the phone claims the OnePlus One Mini is running an 8 mega-pixel camera front and rear, and we are not sure if OnePlus would allow their customers to ‘settle’ for these specs considering what other phones ship with. Another problem with the leak is the fact that there are a number of fake OPO phones on sale in China already with a 5-inch display.
But the rumour is there, and with a 5-inch display the OnePlus One Mini would be exactly what many OnePlus fans have been asking from the company since they announced their current phone.
What do you make of these spy photos? Genuine of fake?
why snapdragon 615? cant it have snapdragon 805 ? at least 801 even it is 720p with 2gb ram it would skyrocket the benchmarks, snapdragon 615 is bad…
You’re looking at purely performance points on not even an accurate science from benchmarks. Have you even considered chip gens? That’s ARMv7 vs. v8 we’re talking about here.
I’d take some performance loss for better future proofing any day.
The trifecta; phone (device), OS and apps. I don’t change phones like I do underwear. Do you?
64 bit ART’s core components are already in place if it’s any indication and even if 5.x/aarch64 builds won’t be coming out until end of next year it’s still a good bet and that’s just a year away.
Considering that I’ve lasted 2.5yrs on an S2 GT-I9100G w/ nearly daily ROM flashing just fine I think that I can repeat that just as easily with early ARMv8 devices w/o any adverse problems.
No real answer lol. You’re in fantasy world if you think 64 bit ARM cpu will make all non 64bit device obsolete within 5-10 year.
Even today 32 bit program is still the lowest common denominator for mass consumers Windows.
Didn’t say anything will get obsolete in x amount of years especially if I should care about voting for that with my dollars, funny I fail to see where did I ever mention that previously.
I just don’t see the need to spend on ARMv7 devices right now when ARMv8 ones are already coming in these few months is all.