Another Chinese player that has garnered a lot of attention this year is OnePlus. Phone makers may take potshots at their rivals, come up with hilarious advertisements and so on. But OnePlus goes one step further as it adopts the tagline – 2014 Flagship Killer, Never Settle. That’s an ambitious tagline if there ever was one.
Obviously, just the selling method isn’t the only reason behind the buzz. OnePlus One comes with top end specifications at an affordable price point and it comes with the Cyanogen Mod ROM of Android. A pre-rooted phone with flagship specs and an affordable price point – any Android geeks fantasy. So let us check out if the OnePlus One delivers on the ‘Flagship Killer’ buzz or is it just another phablet.
OnePlus One has a 5.5-inch display which is surrounded on
all sides by a metallic corner. There’s a slight dip on the top and the bottom
of the display which shows the end of the glass front and beginning of the
metallic edges. On the front, you only have the earpiece speaker section
on the top and the front facing camera beside it. The display has a Corning Gorilla
Glass 3 protection.
The rear cover – Sandstone black in our case – covers the
majority of the rear side as well as the sides of the phone. In fact, the front
glass is separated from the rear cover only with the silver metallic lining.
Although the rear cover is swappable, you will need a special instrument to get
it to open as it offers a snug fit around the rear and sides of the phone. The
Sandstone cover has a lovely texture which feels somewhat like a softer version
of a regular sandpaper. It gives a great grip on the phone.
On the top of the phone you have the headphone jack whereas
on the bottom you have the dual grilles for speakers with the microUSB charging
port in the centre. The plastic-build sporting volume rocker button is on the
left hand side and the power/standby button is on the right hand side.
Coming to the rear side you have the 13MP rear camera with a dual LED flash
unit. You have a microphone places just beside the camera section. Below the
camera is the OnePlus branding followed by the Cyanogen branding on the bottom
of the rear side. We like the minimalist design of the phone. The curved rear
also helps with grip. It weighs just 162 grams and is 8.9mm thick on the sides.
OnePlus One does not have the Ingress Protection certification ie. it is
not water and dust resistant.One of the main reasons behind the buzz around the OnePlus One are the stellar internals. It houses a Snapdragon 801 system-on-chip with a 2.5GHz quad-core Krait 400 processor and Adreno 330 graphics processor. This is paired with 3GB of RAM. On the storage front, the Sandstone version offers 64GB of space of which 54.87GB is available to the user. There is no microSD card slot for this model. But with over 50GB of storage space, does one really need it?
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