One Plus One Phone

Finally the New Flagship Killer phone one plus one is out in the market. Great phone for a great price from a Chinese start up. Yes, it is a Chinese phone, but not one of the duplicate Chinese makes. A real smartphone, specs not comparable to the current Galaxy S5 or Nexus 5, but way above and beyond those high end phones. Looking around all over to find what would be the catch to sell such a high end phone for a low price, really could not find any. Yes, the starting price is only $299.

Coming to the specifications on the the phone it has got a very powerful Qualcom Snapdragon 801 processor with global LTE, coupled with an 5.5” and 1080 pixel display along with a most powerful 3100 mAh battery that could well last over a day even after a heavy use. A 13 mp rear camera and 5mp front camera are way above the industry standards for a smartphone at this price. A 16GB model with above specs costs only $249 USD and a 64 GB model costs $349 USD. At this time when this phone is getting launched there are no better Smartphones for this price, not even Nexus 5 or any Samsung phones for that matter.

Being a start-up company, coming up with this kind of specifications and at this price point without compromising the build quality is amazing. But there, definitely is going to be a backlog in meeting the market demands. Initially the company is planning out to sell the phones based out of invites. So, people who get invites from One plus one, alone can get this phone. And even future roll outs will be based on invites for some time to come based on the news sources from the company. The first roll out of invites was through and some people got their hands on the phone already with overwhelming reviews and responses. And the second roll out is due anytime the third week of May, while I am writing this post. To get an invite, one has to signup at one plus site and do a FaceBook likes, Twitter follow, Google plus share and do a post in their forum. And you get 8 points for that, which would place you in the invite queue.

The phone is little taller than the Galaxy Note 3, but is slightly less broader than the Note3. For big phone lovers it’s a boon. Again not everybody likes big phones, but for me more value for my money and larger real estate with higher pixel rates translates to better readability. A few setbacks, not really though, no SD card slot, which I don’t think is needed if you buy a 64GB phone, and a non-removable battery. I don’t think that these are any setbacks as noted by a couple of users that would stop anybody from buying this high end phone. But, being a new phone, I think people would be little apprehensive about buying it initially, but this phone definitely is going to be a big hit and trend setter in the smartphone industry.

In conclusion it’s a great smartphone for the price advertised. The company has a slogan claiming ‘Never Settle’ meaning not to settle for features with other phones while one can afford for all the features with this phone at a better price, which in my view is aptly said.

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