OnePlus One, the smartphone that will make you forget the Nexus 5 - Panorama

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Roberto Catania

Into the world of smart phones there is a before and an after Nexus 5. With its subsidized smartphones, Google has made sparigliato cards giving the most demanding users the chance to take a home of the highest-end model at an affordable price content. It is in this vein that goes to fit even the new OnePlus One , an Android smartphone that – despite the name uninviting (and plagiarized) – is on the market with a pedigree to be the envy of all the best terminals on the market today, including the Nexus 5.

We are talking about, just to get an idea, a 5.5-inch smartphone with full HD (1080p) , 801 2.5 GHz Snapdragon processor and 3 GB of RAM, 13-megapixel camera with f / 2 aperture and 4K video capabilities. No less interesting is the section of software that can boast the presence of the latest version of Android (4.4 KitKat) but most of the customization of the popular series “mod” signed Cyanogen (CyanogenMod 11S). All this – and here comes the fun part – at a price of 269 Euros for the 16 GB version and 299 € for the 64.

If you’re wondering who this OnePlus of which you have never heard of it, do not worry. Behind the project is OnePlus Pete Lau , former vice president of Oppo, probably the Chinese company that has produced the most interesting Android smartphones in recent years. And that this is not the usual low-cost Chinese phone can be understood also by the attention to design and build quality: OnePlus One is in fact a decidedly sharp profile (8.9 mm maximum thickness which become 4.6 in the most tapering of the phone) and a range of colored covers well researched.

If the price seems very approachable same can not be said of availability on the market , at least until summer. The first 100 copies will be “sold” – so to speak – at the symbolic price of $ 1 for those who send a video of your old terminal destroyed. Then, from the middle of May, you will go to a sales stage of calls initially rather selective. Only after the summer distribution will become more generous with an offer that should be conveyed directly from the online store OnePlus.