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OnePlus’ announcement for June 1 will ‘shake up the tech industry’

Yash GargMay 26, 2015

OnePlus has announced in true OnePlus fashion that the Chinese company is going to ‘shake up the tech industry’. To be very fair, that is something their first and only phone yet — the OnePlus One — did also.

There’s no word on what the event will see, but we doubt if it’ll be the OnePlus Two. The OnePlus Two (or whatever the company chooses to call it) will come in the third quarter this year, so there’s at least a couple months to go before that.

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The teaser depicts a half-erased image of a OnePlus One and reads ‘Time to change’. ‘Time to change’… could it be a OnePlus Smartwatch? Rumours of a device like that did show up at a point in time but seem to have died down since. Speculations around the announcement also include the possibility of a OnePlus One price cut (wouldn’t that be cool?).

Thankfully though, there’s less than a week to go before we come to know. Let us know what you expect to see on that date!

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- balcobomber25
  May 26, 2015
  That is already well known as Cyanogen dropped them, could be the unveiling of their new OS.
  - david
    May 26, 2015
    That is why I think so. Because it looks like they are erasi g cyanogen desktop
balcobomber25
May 26, 2015
- MaxPower
  May 26, 2015
  - Xalis
    May 26, 2015
    This time you need to send them a blood sample to win a opportunity to get a invite for their flash sale!
    - Mesterio
      May 27, 2015
- Miko
  May 27, 2015
  Love this way of thinking!!! cheers! really laughed on this 😀
  My (real) guess is a new design with very good specs in a good price. This means thin bezels, keeping the good stuff that people liked in 1+1 and adding what was missing.
  I think that 1+1 listens their community so they are aware of the problems their phone had or what people missed and wanted in a future phone.

Andi Sykes
May 26, 2015
My guess will be a redesigned OPO. Similar specs but a new body similar to what the console industry do with their slim consoles.
- david
  May 26, 2015
  It that would drop price it would be a BINGO! But I’m suspicious because new enclosure would mean new tooling and higher initial cost
- Ricardo
  May 26, 2015
  My guess is a 5′ OPO with a new design (I would love OIS but that’s not likely to come).
- Mikeyd
  May 27, 2015
  That is Nothing to shake the tech industry.
  I think it is something with the battery.
- Hwgeek
  May 27, 2015
  I think that OPO will go with new powerfull Mediatek SOC with 480FPS slow motion camera, the price will be lower then snapdragon 810 based device(and cooler 🙂 ).
- Ash Horse
  May 27, 2015
  I think they will come up like sharp aquos crystal
- bro-reac
  May 27, 2015
  Love the way OPO plays their game.
  Well they keep us one our toes and guessing – their marketing team knows their game.

Marius Cirsta
May 26, 2015

realjjj
May 26, 2015
OnePlus teases too much and does too little , at this point i got way too bored of empty “threats”.
Objectively there isn’t much they can do that would be exciting on the phone side. Sure a price drop to at least match the China prices but that would be something they should have done already. Having the Exynos 7420 is unlikely, or curved screen so nothing interesting can really be done now. Same hardware , microSD and very thin upper and lower bezels would be nice but not quite enough.
A tab could work , if they had a 8.4 2560×1600 with MT8173 , 3GB RAM , microSD at 200$, it would be rather great but hard to say if it would sell well enough.
An Android Wear watch at 99$ or less would be interesting but i doubt they have the competence to make something far better than anything on the market and it would be preferable if it wasn’t another dumbwatch clone.
But this is clearly about phones and if they go 1440p and SD810 at 300$ it would be about as boring as it can get, sure some would be happy that the price is not up but price shouldn’t be up to begin with.
If Google expands Cardboard in a big way at IO (May 28) and OnePlus has some Oculus like glasses at 99$ or less, it could be at least interesting or even great, depending on how much Google did.

Alaa
May 26, 2015
- david
  May 26, 2015
  Give this man a cookie!
- Xalis
  May 26, 2015
David Košič
May 26, 2015
Without Cyanogen they have a thought road ahead of them.
Kenshiro
May 26, 2015
The industry needs solar powered phones, the new opo will be organic, it will be able to do photosynthesis.
- iKosh
  May 26, 2015
  - hans
    May 26, 2015
    - Raul
      May 27, 2015
eliHd
May 26, 2015
is this where they announce another toy chopper! lmao

MaxPower
May 26, 2015
My guess is that they are going to make a 64 bit phone without sensors to compete with the amazing Xiaolojiao!
Qidamin
May 26, 2015
And there will be 300 yuans price cut for both 16 and 64gb in June on JD.com
zhongtiao1
May 26, 2015
Maybe a 4.7 inch OPO? Hopefully? Even if it only has 2gb of RAM, it will still be great
- Xalis
  May 26, 2015

fangbanger
May 26, 2015
MY guess is it will be the OPO with a “shake” gesture, and some people will commit suicide for that.
- hans
  May 27, 2015
  - willian40
    May 27, 2015
The Bastard Christ
May 27, 2015
nobody cares if it is not dual sim, unless you live in north america or some shit hole like it… move along…
- david
  May 27, 2015
  - The Bastard Christ
    May 30, 2015
    wtf is a busimess people… if growing up means living in your fucked up made up world, then we are all perfectly fine where we are. Dual sim is king.

Fais Khan
May 27, 2015
”SHAKE UP THE TECH INDUSTRY”
Hyperbole central
Dual os may be with easier to switch function.
R4h4
May 27, 2015
I bet I will be as “shaking” as their “Game Changer”
Andrawid
May 27, 2015
Way too many alternatives in the market. Confusing times for the consumer. But hey, what the heck, consumers win.
Shashank
May 27, 2015
i guess it will be OnePlus Lite device only
Edgars
May 28, 2015

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