SAN FRANCISCO—In a breezy, open-air lobby of a small office building in the city, Bridget Hickey, a representative for Chinese mobile phone company OnePlus, invites a handful of journalists to check out two neatly organized rows of phones on a nearby table. “Basically this is super low-key,” she tells us, adding that a VR demo will be available later this evening to people around the world.
Hickey is right on multiple counts. Not only is the event relaxed and free-form, without any speeches from company officials or slides showing OnePlus statistics, but the company’s new phone itself, called the OnePlus 2 (that’s “two” in numeral form, not spelled out, company representatives informed us), is low-key, quietly offering improvements on the strong showing it made last year without taking any giant or unexpected turns in form or function. The phone looks very much like its predecessor, the OnePlus One (“one” is spelled out here, naturally), and it feels like its predecessor too. There are some obvious hardware improvements, as well as more incremental software improvements. But there is one big difference from the phone’s debut last year—it’s no longer running Cyanogenmod, opting instead for an in-house OS called Oxygen built on top of Android Lollipop 5.1.
The OnePlus 2 runs on a 64-bit Snapdragon 810 processor with 1.8GHz “Octa-core CPUs” as well as an Adreno 430 GPU. The Snapdragon 810 does have some heat issues, but it's really unavoidable for most companies this generation. We'll have to see how well the OnePlus 2 deals with heat when we have more time with it.
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