Poll: Now the OnePlus 2 has launched have you changed your mind?

We recently held a poll asking if our readers would buy the OnePlus 2, you can find the surprising results here along with a new poll asking what you think now the phone is official.

Last week and before the official launch of the OnePlus 2 we asked GizChina readers to take a poll asking “Will you buy the OnePlus Two?”. From 946 votes only 15% of readers said they would happily buy the OnePlus 2 once it becomes available on the 11th August. 33% of readers aid that they wouldn’t buy the phone, and the remaining %52 said they wanted to wait and see.

Well now that the OnePlus 2 has launched and the official specifications released we want to know if you have changed your mind?

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For those of you who have missed the details you can read the full OnePlus 2 specifications here, or if you haven’t time here is a quick run down;

What the OP2 has:

5.5-inch 1080 display
Snapdragon 810
3-4GB RAM
16-64GB memory
13 mega-pixel camera with OIS
5 mega-pixel front
3300mAh battery
Style swap covers
Dual SIM

What the OP2 doesn’t have

No fast charging
No wireless charging
No SD card slot
No NFC

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pa5t1s
July 28, 2015
No fast charging <———– useless
No wireless charging <———– useless
No SD card slot <———– lol, useless
No NFC <———– not so useless, but secondary
So,Yes, it isn't as ugly as I thought.

pa5t1s
July 28, 2015
No fast charging <———– useless
No wireless charging <———– useless
No SD card slot <———– lol, useless
No NFC <———– not so useless, but secondary
So,Yes, it isn't as ugly as I thought.
- Manos
  July 28, 2015
  Well I need the fast charge and the SD card so a no from me.I have the zenphone 2 2.3ghz so far is good but I need a better software for the camera.
  - Max
    July 28, 2015
    you could try lenovo’s “SuperCamera” it seems to be one of the best camera softwares around (when it works). might need to flash it tho…
- Manos
  July 28, 2015
  Well I need the fast charge and the SD card so a no from me.I have the zenphone 2 2.3ghz so far is good but I need a better software for the camera.
- - pa5t1s
    July 28, 2015
    Can you expand your comment? What is the relation between ‘NFC’ and ‘future’? Do you use NFC on a daily basis? Are you talking about “payment” aso? Are you living in USA (only) ?
  - balcobomber25
    July 28, 2015
    I can honestly say I have never used NFC on a phone and I don’t know anyone who has either.
    - July 28, 2015
      Check out @oneplus’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/oneplus/status/625882989935882240?s=01
      When they claim op2 is “future proof” then i don’t talk about today, tomorrow, or this week. I talk about “future” when they also claim “2016 flagship killer”.
      Apple has done much things to make nfc payment become a trend in usa, google wallet and samsung pay also play some roles. So, do you think in 2016 people will still say “I have never used NFC on a phone and I don’t know anyone who has either.”?
      It’s like qualcomm said “octacore in a phone is ridiculous and useless” then they make snapdragon 610/615. I talk about future and you talk about today and yesterday so our discussion will never met if you still think about these days.
      - balcobomber25
        July 28, 2015
        You do realize the world exists outside of Apple and the US? In most countries in the world NFC is completely non existent. Even in the US I don’t know a single person who actually uses it.
        
        July 28, 2015
        I do realize, even i am from indonesia and i can’t say no one i know using nfc. I myself using nfc to pair e-toll card to use in in inner/outer ring road toll. So in the future i can’t say people won’t need the nfc.
        Funny enough, they are using cardboard from google for launhcing vr, which google reference its cardboard to use nfc for their vr launcher app.
        balcobomber25
        July 29, 2015
        People probably will use it in the future, but will a majority of people use it? I just dont see it happening.
- Kenshiro
  July 28, 2015
  - pa5t1s
    July 28, 2015
    I think that you misunderstood me: when I said “useless”, it was like “un-needed” or “I don’t care it’s missing” 😀
    - balcobomber25
      July 28, 2015
      - pa5t1s
        July 28, 2015
        I am not that on my nerves 🙂 Just check your battery level on time and do appropriate charging 🙂
        Furthermore, nothing so far has been studied about battery life+fast charge: I’m not sure it’s a winning couple…
        balcobomber25
        July 28, 2015
        In four days of usage with the MX5 I haven’t seen any difference in battery life compared to my old Mi4. If anything it’s a little better. I don’t need to check my battery level anymore, I can just plug it in while I am getting ready for work, and when I leave I have a full charge.
        MaxPower
        July 28, 2015
        I’m sure the fast charging kills the battery but average people change their phones every 2 years (soon close to one year) so it shouldn’t be a problem.
    - Kenshiro
      July 28, 2015
- MaxPower
  July 28, 2015
  agree with you but for someone like me who completely replaced his laptop, camera, gps with his phone, then fast charging can compensate the lack of removable and relative small batteries.
  one example over anything.
  I love my gps app (waze) that i use daily because it tells me the road conditions (dead deers, ambushed cops) live.
  if i plug my phone with a 1A charger and that app running the battery level decreases.
  by the time i make it to work the phone is dead, and it’s still morning :-p
  i really need that feature.
  i don’t care of the rest honestly, the phone seems a good deal for the money.

Thang Cheong Pin
July 28, 2015
My initial reason for not buying this phone was I simply don’t like their invite system. The situation is the same now and I won’t buy the Oneplus 2 base on the same reason.
Thang Cheong Pin
July 28, 2015
My initial reason for not buying this phone was I simply don’t like their invite system. The situation is the same now and I won’t buy the Oneplus 2 base on the same reason.

Lars
July 28, 2015
Disappointed with the design and size (too big for me but this is personally of course). The lack of SD-card slot does not help and neither does the invite system. Specs and price are fine imo, depending on how much the SD810 overheats.
nilinaxolotl
July 28, 2015
No fast charginggggggg. Seriously?
Buttt still, probably I will buy it.
Lukas
July 28, 2015
though i am little disappointed by euro prices, wooden back cover really got me and i will survive that ugly fingerprint scanner for it. if i manage to get my hands on invite for 16gb version and the reviews will be fine i might buy it. I plan to buy a new phone around september and it looks like it will be fight between mx5 and op2

July 28, 2015
No, i won’t buy it.
The “No NFC” was a deal breaker for me. I don’t use NFC regularly. But, for “2016 flagship killer”, i don’t think having NFC is useless next year as apple and samsung and google already start nfc payment this year, so next year maybe a boom for nfc payment. That again proving that op2 is not “future proof” as promoted. And what the hell with fast charging disabilities?! Are you live in 2014? Better say 2014 flagship killer anyway.
- balcobomber25
  July 28, 2015
  People have been saying “next year will be a boom for NFC” for about 5 years now and so far it hasn’t happened. Recent reports suggest 85% of Iphone 6 users have never even attempted to use Apple Pay. Less than 5% of all NFC equipped phones are being used for mobile payments. So while some people are using it, most aren’t and analysts don’t expect those numbers to change much over the next year.
  But don’t forget the world is a lot bigger than the US and for many countries around the world NFC is useless.
- SnowyCat
  July 28, 2015
  in europe actually nobody started nfc payment that far so for me that feature is rather pointless but yes thats just me

highwind
July 28, 2015
“you can find the surprising results here”
what was surprising on that results?
People do not wanting to hype a ridiculous company with their completely retarded invite System isnt surprising at all, atleast for me…
Besides overpriced Snapdragon bullshit kills their phones anyways

Kubis
July 28, 2015
Sorry. Ugly or definitely not sexy design, too heavy, fat, big bezels, no SD, no quick charging, screen just OK, almost stock Android.
If you buy phones with your brain, it might be a way to go.
But this thing is not sexy for me to get one!
Android Authority already have hands on video comparing with S6. 1+2 looks outdated already…
Stiven
July 28, 2015
One thing that i learned from buying international MX4 for 450$ is that it’s not worth it. I would like to stay under 200$ for some time.
- balcobomber25
  July 29, 2015
  You got ripped off if you paid that much for an MX4. Even the newest MX5 isn’t selling for that much on many resellers.
  - Stiven
    July 29, 2015
    It was the price for international version, with DHL and taxes included. i bought it directly from Meizu store.
    - balcobomber25
      July 29, 2015
      Meizu store for some reason is always over priced, it’s funny because there retail stores are so cheap. But even for $450 the MX4 was still offering flagship specs found in phones that the time cost over $600. So while you could have got it for cheaper it was still good deal compared to the Samsungs.
- Discusser
  July 29, 2015
  Then you did something wrong … I got my MX5 32gb from Aliexpress for 380$ with DHL it arived in 3 Days

Adam Irvine
July 28, 2015
Lol, I don’t think there’s any need for the invite system this time round, I doubt there’s the demand for it now…
How ever many they’ve already produced will be too many I’m sure…
- Marius Cirsta
  July 28, 2015
  That should be the case indeed but if the hype and marketing wins then they’ll have no problem selling this.
  - RiverHorser
    July 28, 2015
    which it hasn’t for the the o+1 so my bet is the 2 will be of equally disappointing sales… other companies shift that in a week what they did in 16 months and its not cause of the non existing demand but also cause they actually not even barely recognised in chinas mobile phone market. no one knows them
- luke
  July 28, 2015
  thats the point of the invite system. they sell upon demand so that they dont make a loss.

RiverHorser
July 28, 2015
don’t know a single person in China who either knows OPO or gives a rat’s rear end. This company created attention mostly with enthusiastic folks outside China. Here in China the company doesn’t come with any cache or prestige nor the eco system like xiaomi or huawei. Despite their big mouthing announcements. U ain’t a flagship beater if no one really knows or cares about u. It’s David vs Goliath whilst one+ is the sort of David replacement never ever even showing up to be benched
- bojan radovanovic
  July 28, 2015
  but you know about OPPO!?
  that is, if you know anything about smartphones…but i think you don’t. (and please, dont talk about Sammy and Apple, or Lenovo and Huawei).
  and i think you don’t know many people, as it is possible that you don’t have much friends, so you don’t hav no one to talk about smartphones….
  to such a conclusion I came because they did sell a LOT of devices in China,and if you never heard of them…well, it more possibile that it is up to you.
  of corse, they are not big as Xiaomi is (6. largest on world, and 3. in China),not as Coolpad, or even VIVO are, but anyone who is following smartpone market knows about them.
  so, inform yourself:
  “As of the end of 2014, the OnePlus One has sold over one million units, despite only planning on selling up to 50,000 units. The East Asian market accounted for 39% of the company’s shipments in 2014, followed by Europe with 33%, 22% in North America, and 7% in India. In total, the device generated a total revenue of $300 million through December 2014,”
  so, at least 400 000 units of One+1 was sold in east Asia.
  if you don’t know anyone with it, dude…just go back to play with Barbie dolls, put pictures on Instagram of yourself playing with them, it is obvious smartphones is not point of your interests
  - RiverHorser
    July 28, 2015
    Bok Bojan, lets just assume u know me since u started all that guess-work and so. Let’s also assume you maybe missed the last 11 years since when i moved to China (tip, im still in China), possibly you even didn’t know that i not just speak the language but also been working in and with the ICT industry there and at least affiliated to all the companies you mentioned but VIVO.
    Also knowing my linkedin profile you may have spotted that i know several OPPO/OPO folks and most of them actually have an US branded phone outside and often inside their offices.
    Let me mention that i do indeed know a rather extensive number of chinese, some of them being directors in companies mentioned before.
    Guess what.. you comment doesn’t even come close to anything and… OPO is indeed as famous as any Kruškovača producer in China.. take care mate… time to catch up but you better be Chinese or in China
    - Angry Mobile Nerd
      July 29, 2015
      No kidding, I’ve also been in China for almost a decade now (full time, not in and out on business) and I absolutely can’t stand people on forums here thinking they know or understand the Chinese market better than us. There’s a couple of them here.
      - RiverHorser
        July 29, 2015
        gotcha, that Bojanic sounded all too much marketing trollish. The hard truth is that opo/OPPO is just not a big thing in China.
        Lower income folks go for the odd Coolpad/Huawei and even xiaomi phones whilst those who can or can’t afford but need the 面子boost a fruit cheering phone oozes… the OPx is doesn’t come with any cache to warrant a big price tag. Nor are they seen as hip. The Chinese market operates very different to western markets hence the likes of Xiaomi unable yet to push for western markets
    - bojan radovanovic
      August 10, 2015
      Yes dude, bravo za tebe.
      As i see, a lot of people writing about it, a lot of webpages, forums, a lot of things about it from Chinese sources…. And if you didn’t hear of it, it tells more about how deep are you in job you doing.
      And, no… I did not google about you. I don’t care who you are, it’s enough to know how much you know about phones, so i don’t need to read more of your “knowledge”. Just go, use Apple…i know you like it
      - RiverHorser
        August 17, 2015
        Bojan darling, without giving too much toss about ur ramblings. Rest assured that i know chinese sources since i am fluent in the language and been working in ICT for the last 14 years. Thanks though for the outsider view i assume…
Faux-News
July 28, 2015
Never personally liked the OP1 either design, size nor UI nor they way they sell. Also hate the OPPO brand. But OP2 is definitely a improvement in design and UI. And certainly seems better after official release than what was known about the device and the ugly tenaa images. But no, wont be buying it.

Guaire
July 28, 2015
Yes, I did. I thought its back is worst part of the design, now seems best part. Actually I liked it, especially black one seems good. Unfortunately front looks still ugly.
I didn’t like nonexistent improvement over display to body ratio and it’s still thick as OPO. Worse it’s heavier.
Price is not bad.
Back camera specs seems pretty impressive. It seems to me best part of the phone.
16GB storage without Micro SD slot is a flagship killer.
Lack of fast charging is another huge mistake.
We will see how they dealed with SD810.
- nilinaxolotl
  July 28, 2015
  I am impressed with their main camera too.
  and I can’t believe OP2 doesn’t have quick charging.
Jack
July 28, 2015
usb type-c only for show. It still use usb2 protocol.

Ruby
July 28, 2015
I can still get between $260-280 for my mint condition OnePlus One on Swappa. So for $100 more to upgrade to the ‘2’, it’s a no brainer. I can’t think of another flagship smartphone that has kept such a high resale value 16 months after it was launched.
- balcobomber25
  July 29, 2015
  The most recent prices on Swappa are $227 for the 16GB model and $265 for the 64GB. If you can get someone to pay $280 do it, because that person is not that bright seeing as you can buy a brand new one for $289.
  - Ruby
    July 29, 2015
    The price for a new 64GB version on the OnePlus web site is $300 + $21 for express shipping to Cleveland, OH. Perhaps one can save $10 buying it on AliExpress but he’d have to wait a >month for shipping and take the risk of getting a Chinese clone or worse – with no recourse. The prices you looked at are generally not for a MINT condx device. My point is that even at $265, the resale value is outstanding. What will your MX-5 be worth in 16 months?
    - balcobomber25
      July 29, 2015
      This isn’t a pissing contest about who has the better phone with better resale value. But if we are going to use manufacturers website the MX4 is currently selling for $449 on Meizu’s official store and people are still buying it. Used MX4’s are selling for between $280-300 around the web. Guess that didn’t work out how you thought.
      It was more of a question of why someone would pay that much for a used phone when a new one doesnt cost that much more. You can get it for $299 on Ebay with free expedited shipping. If it was me I would pay an extra $34 a brand new phone than buy a used one.
      Here are three mint OPO that recently sold on Swappa, the highest was $250. If you can get someone to pay $265 jump on it:

bloody invite system, price will go up to 450$
Manjurul Islam
July 28, 2015
Fast charging is not my concern, but seriously no NFC and no wireless charging, and they call it flagship killer 2016!!!!!
- balcobomber25
  July 29, 2015
  Wirless charging is awesome, I had it on my Kingzone K1 but it’s something that never really caught on in the industry. Instead quick charging is the new flagship spec.
James
July 28, 2015
Where are the AnTuTu scores? Has this gone past the 65,000 mark? I tired of my current phones which scores a measly ~45,000. Need a close-to-70k-AnTuTu phone, and the S6 is too expensive.
- July 28, 2015
  Quick question, what is it exactly that you need it to score close to 70k in antutu for? It’s a benchmark app that you will possibly run a few times in the life of your phone.
  what apps and games are you running that cannot be handled by a phone hitting 45k?
  I am interested to hear what you need it for as I think we are all becoming caught up by the need to show how big our dicks are via our phones lol.
  would you rather buy a phone because it hit 70k in a benchmark app, or would you buy a phone that was nicely optimised with lower specs but in everyday use felt much faster and ran cooler with better battery life?
  - balcobomber25
    July 28, 2015
    A lot of people think a silly little score tells them something about the performance of the phone.
- balcobomber25
  July 28, 2015
  There is no phone with a close to 70k score accept the S6. Having used the S6 though there is no performance difference in actual usage to my MX5 which I think scores in the 50’s (don’t really know because benchmarks are useless to me).
  - bojan radovanovic
    July 28, 2015
    SGS6 and all the same SGS6 edge, is shoving 10 000 antutu points difference.
    so, it shows how good antutu is
    - balcobomber25
      July 28, 2015
      Exactly. Antutu should be used in conjuction with every other benchmark. As a single unit it tells you very little, combined with Geekbench, Quadrant and the rest it is a starting measure for performance. But none of those tests will ever tell you about the real world usage of the phone, just the simulated usage.
  - The Special Juan
    July 28, 2015
    btw…how you getting on with the MX5? Mine will be waiting for me next monday when I arrive back in the UK.
    - balcobomber25
      July 28, 2015
      I am in love with this phone. I have yet to find a single issue with it, which is big for me because usually I can find something I dont like in just about every phone. The Helios X10 is incredible, handles everything I throw at it and never slows down or overheats.
      - The Special Juan
        July 28, 2015
        Good to know you rate so highly…look forward to getting my hands on mine (even if only to see if fastcardtech have genuinely sent me the 32gb version! – never quite sure with them!). My own view is that the MX5 should be getting more press as a “flagship killer” rather than the OP2…
        
        balcobomber25
        July 28, 2015
        I think the only reason it is not is because it lacks the LTE bands for Europe/North America.
    - Discusser
      July 29, 2015
      I also have the MX5 and i have to say this phone is a best it feels like an upgrade to my OPPO Find7a in every way (exept NFC) btw. 4G Is working perfectly here in Switzerland!
      - The Special Juan
        July 29, 2015
        Happy to hear your views. Reviews of the device are thin on the ground, so your feedback is appreciated. My 32GB (supposedly) MX5 finally left Hong Kong after sitting with DHL for 3 days. Scheduled for delivery on Friday
- pa5t1s
  July 28, 2015
  There’s absolutely no need for Antutu >=65000 for:
  1) posting on Facebook
  2) send selfies on SnapChat
  3) reading emails on Yahoo
  - MaxPower
    July 28, 2015
    what about people who wants to post on Facebook a screenshot of their Antutu scores?
    at the end that’s what Antutu meant to be.
    isn’t it?
    - pa5t1s
      July 28, 2015
      - MaxPower
        July 28, 2015
        they do exist 🙂
        this behavior has been subject of many studies of psychoanalysis.
        i heard that “enlarge your penis” has be been substituted by “improve your Antutu score”
        in the object of spam mail.
        :-p
        balcobomber25
        July 29, 2015
        Wait so those pills I bought won’t help me get an extra 10,000 points??? Sadface….
        MaxPower
        July 29, 2015
    - balcobomber25
      July 29, 2015
      Dont forget about all the forums where people can go to debate how their score is higher!
      - MaxPower
        July 29, 2015
        dedicated forum.
        i totally missed them!
        I’m going to take a look there when I’m feeling depressed.
        balcobomber25
        July 29, 2015
        Sadly I wish i was making that up but these are just some of the hundreds that exist:

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