OnePlus One - $300 killer Android phone

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Bryn26 said:
@Gamer I'm not sure I'd trust my precious OnePlus One with a homemade charger, but well done nonetheless. I use a Nokia charger with my OPO and it works fantastically. My step-dad also has an OPO and he uses the charger and cable it ships with, plus an SA adapter of course. It doesn't feel wobbly at all, so perhaps the problem was just the adapter that you were using?
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Hehe, it's more a homemade adapter than a homemade charger. Two wires go from the charger pins to the plug pins, it's more secure than a standard adapter.
My biggest gripe was how much it sticks out from the wall when used with a standard type adapter. (wall - adapter - charger - USB cable direction) with the USB cable sticking out parallel to the ground. Plugging it in behind my bed side table meant the table had to be pushed at least 100/120mm away from the wall and the cable was pushed up against the table. Now the table sits almost flush and the cable feeds directly up. Win win.
 
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shiverz said:
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Eish- though that's more to do with the 3rd party charger/cable though. I had something similar from a crap charger + tablet. Tab must've overloaded charger, as the charger blew. Took the cable with it, luckily the tab was fine...

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Hehe, it's more a homemade adapter than a homemade charger. Two wires go from the charger pins to the plug pins, it's more secure than a standard adapter.
My biggest gripe was how much it sticks out from the wall when used with a standard type adapter. (wall - adapter - charger - USB cable direction) with the USB cable sticking out parallel to the ground. Plugging it in behind my bed side table meant the table had to be pushed at least 100/120mm away from the wall and the cable was pushed up against the table. Now the table sits almost flush and the cable feeds directly up. Win win.
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:)

In the UK, the thing comes with a siff adaptor too- I'm using a UK iPhone charger when out and about, with the official EU charger forced into a UK plug at home (leaves earth open :erm:).
 
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Just to highlight the value of tempered glass protectors. I fitted a tempered glass protector to my Oneplus before I even switched it on for the first time. This was in mid December. In early January, while on leave, my little one year old found my OnePlus on the couch. She picked it up, placed it face down on the tiled floor and with both hands on the phone, crawled all the way to the kitchen (large open plan), pushing along with her legs while using the phone as a sliding device under her hands, bum in the air style :D

Pictures of what it looks like after this are below. Now, I've ordered replacement (multiple) tempered glass protectors which I'm still waiting for, but without one fitted, this would have been one messed up phone and one upset dad ;)

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Gamer said:
Not at all, leaving it on the couch isn't not taking care of it though.
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It is if you have a 1 year old around that's eager to use it as a mop.

Naturally one can't protect anything and everything from a toddler's grasp, but a phone?
 
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Ja...

Mine's in my pocket all the time, unless it's next to the bed.

No toddlers in the house...

+1 for tempered glass though :)
 
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Budza said:
Ja...

Mine's in my pocket all the time, unless it's next to the bed.

No toddlers in the house...

+1 for tempered glass though :)
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I just make sure mine is on a non-scratchy service next to me or in my pocket. No exceptions. And I always handle it carefully, especially if I'm out and about. I've had my OnePlus One for a few months now and it still looks as it did the day I received it, despite having no covers, pouches, protectors or cases.
 
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Bryn26 said:
Good move by OnePlus. Cyanogen have gone full potato by backstabbing OnePlus with their Micromax deal in India and with their aspirations of ditching Google. OnePlus would be mad to stay with them.
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It did sour the relationship a bit, yeah. Don't think it was ever feasible for OPO to only stick with CM, either.
 
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OrbitalDawn said:
It did sour the relationship a bit, yeah. Don't think it was ever feasible for OPO to only stick with CM, either.
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I don't imagine OnePlus are overly impressed with how slowly Cyanogen are updating CM11s either.

If OxygenOS turns out to be mostly vanilla Android I'll be extremely impressed. If they make it available for the One I'll probably install it.
 
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Bryn26 said:
I saw that on the official forum. Can't wait for Lollipop. I have to admit that I'm disappointed that Cyanogen took the full three months to do it.
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I'm looking forward to it too.
It seems we'll have our choice of official ROM's too, Cyanogen and Oxygen.
 
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I'm looking forward to it too.
It seems we'll have our choice of official ROM's too, Cyanogen and Oxygen.
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Is OxygenOS strongly resembles vanilla Android, I'll probably use it instead of CM.
 
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