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Looks like they wanted to capture what people liked about the 1+1

>Non-removeable battery

My only complaint at all. I have an 1+1 and it satisfied everything I could have wanted at $360 price point

I probably will be upgrading to an 1+3, but not for a little while longer. Its seriously still a great phone.

Agree. My Oneplus One is the best phone I had since the iPhone 4s which I also liked a lot. Buildquality is great. Would love a new model with the soft material on the back again. Got my One last March and don't fancy a change this soon.

Really happy with my oneplus one which I have had for two years now. Excellent battery life and does everything I want. One of the most important things for me is that it can run CyanogenMod vs. the crap android that is found on phones from LG, Samsung, Lenovo and others. CM is close enough to stock android + a bunch of extra tweaks/toggles that it's perfect for my purposes. I haven't run Oneplus' OxygenOS on it, but based on the videos and screenshots I've seen it looks like since their falling out with CM, they've basically re-implemented many of Cyanogen's features in OxygenOS.

Does it cost more to sell in Europe than the US ?

On the US site, the price displayed in 399USD. For countries that use the euro, it's selling for 399EUR. That's 447.16USD. If I was looking for a new phone and considered this one, I'd be annoyed at the price difference.

Taxes.

US prices are exclusive of sales tax where applicable, in the EU you have on average about 20% of VAT (which is always included in the MSRP) on consumer electronics, the EU also has on average higher import tariffs than the US.

The price i see in the UK is 309GBP which is 435USD which is actually less than 399$ + 20% VAT, so oddly enough the Yanks are the ones getting screwed in this process if you believe that VAT is justified. For the UK at least the price is about identical to someone from NYC buying the phone for 399$ + ~9% surtax which is about 435$.

And 2 years warranty on defects for all consumer purchases (not for B2B sales).

And in the UK, for that, you get health care and other social services, unlike in NYC.

Aside from taxes, which others have mentioned (and I believe the standard in Europe is for prices to be tax inclusive), the EU typically has stronger consumer protection laws. More refunds/replacements/support etc. means higher cost.

I'm so pleased that they finally included NFC, an absolute requirement for me.

The only thing that I wish I would see is wireless charging, but I consider that a "nice to have" rather then a blocker.

This will definitely be on the shortlist the next time I'm looking for a phone.

For the first time, an Android phone has near-perfect build design choices! Good button placement, a hardware notification slider, headphone jack on the bottom, an OLED display with enough of a bezel to minimize accidental edge touches, refined and understated shape/lines, and a finger-print reader on the front.

The only thing that stands out to me as a (slight) design flaw is the camera bump.

no MicroSD slot with support for adopted storage and no removable battery are the only glaring flaws i can see.

On the flip side, they aren't charging an arm and a leg for the 64gb, which is quite a bit of storage, though a microsd would be a nice addition. As to the removable battery, if it's serviceable enough, shouldn't be too bad. The backplate on the OPO wasn't bad at all, ordered the bamboo back separately and was easy enough to install.

the only other drawback is USB 2.0 speeds only not USB 3.0 or 3.1 with the c connector.

Also looks like they have managed to align all the holes in a straight line at the bottom of the phone which after apple no one has done so far

http://m.imore.com/difference-apple-samsung-industrial-desig...

Amazing specs .... Aaaaand it's another 5.5" display, deal breaker. My iPhone6 plus is a fantastic phone, but handling the Nexus 5x when I got it made me remember the joy of a smaller form factor. Same specs with a 5"? Instant buy.

Does OnePlus have a healthy ROM building community?

OnePlus One, which originally shipped with Cyanogen, has (had?) a pretty good ROM community. Since this seems to be trying to recapture what people liked about the One, I suspect there'll be ROMs for it soon enough. For right now now, I'd probably still go with the original One, or a Nexus.

Not really, the OnePlus One came with a lot of promise but OnePlus has quickly severed ties with Cyanogen and the support for the OnePlus One somewhat died out when OnePlus switching to Oxygen (if you still have Cyanogen on the OnePlus One you can get OTA updates from Cyanogen).

After that I never bothered with the OnePlus 2, the lack of NFC support probably had more with me not buying it than the OS support but that also played into my decision.

I have had a oneplus one for 2 years, running cyanogen on it, and have gone through all the OTA updates to the latest 6.x based OS with no hiccups. My only complaint about cyanogenmod is their recent push to integrate microsoft onedrive services and other microsoft "cloud" stuff, which you can just ignore...

I have a OnePlus Two, and yes, there are CyanogenMod builds for it, I've been running them for the past year. Just last week, the updates started coming through the in-OS updater, rather than me having to download and flash ROMs. I haven't been bit by any bugs or even particularly rough edges for the past three months or so.

I assume these builds will eventually get blessed by CM -- maybe they already have?

The thread I keep an eye on:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-2/development/6-0-x-...

Ish, but as they open-sourced their driver, I expect a much more growing modding community. https://github.com/OnePlusOSS

Last time one of these shipped they had a lot of customer service issues, or at least that was the loudest complaint I read. I wonder if that has changed?

Well my OnePlus One's USB port stopped functioning back in February and it took two and half months of back and forth for them to send me a working phone.

Multiple customer agents pasting the same message back to me and ignoring what I'd written, sending me a "repaired" phone that had non-functional front and rear speakers, and also initially trying to invoice me £200 for what was an in warranty repair.

When I got that invoice and complained that I was in warranty, they sent me a link to their policy with no other comment.

Phone was good other than this. But I'm not going to buy another phone from them after all that hassle.

Looks like NFC is back... I had my OPO for about two years and while I really liked it, the coverage (via T-Mobile) really were less than stellar. I switched to a Nexus 6P and Verizon back in April, so will be a while before another switch, I'm not sure if the OP3 will work on Verizon or not, if it does, would be my new recommendation for upper-mid-range phone.

I had an OPO on t-mobile - the reason the coverage was bad was because of the bands it supported. When I switched to a phone that supported all of their bands, the coverage difference was night and day.

Ii tend to do one or two longer road trips for vacation a year driving... There are a lot of places that just aren't covered at all b T-Mobile, that's what I was mostly referring to.

Looks like a solid phone, my only issue is the lack of GSM frequency bands for use here in Australia. Half of the frequencies we use for 4G LTE aren't listed so data would be congested and signal would be weaker.

Otherwise, I'd totally put this as an option for my dad's next phone alongside the 6P. Both look to be really great phones.

https://oneplus.net/3/specs

Europe / Asia model GSM: 850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz WCDMA: Bands 1/2/5/8 FDD-LTE: Bands 1/3/5/7/8/20 TDD-LTE: Bands 38/40/41

Does anyone know if there is support for CTIA headphones on the OnePlus Two (and Three?).

I really loved my OPO, but not having Mic support on existing headphones I already owned was a dealbreaker for calls and audio support.

No it only supports OMTP, i think only Sony supports CITA. Sony also sells adapters with the proper resistance to enable all the features to work they are under 10$.

https://www.amazon.com/Sony-EC250-Headphones-Adaptor-1249-04...

Am I missing something or is there still no NFC support?

According to the specs this one has NFC!

That was the only thing stopping me from the previous generation. I'll definitely consider this the next time I'm looking for a phone now.

Thanks, I somehow missed it first pass.

It's there, buried in the specs page. Finally a successor to the OnePlus One, IMO.

Pricing index:

USD 399 : 570

EUR 399 : 640

CAD 519 : 577

GBP 309 : 624

KKD 2990 : 645

HUF 124990 : 638

CNY 2799 : 608

INR 27999 : 595

HKD 3098 : 571

SEK 3695 : 636

PLN 1799 : 651

CZK 10990 : 651

How is this derived?

Price pulled from website, converted to common currency - in this case being NZD since I'm from New Zealand.

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