Known for its tagline “Never Settle,” OnePlus makes smartphones that rival other flagship handsets with more budget-friendly price tags.
If there has been one recent smartphone trend that hasn’t been horrible, its been the choice made by manufacturers to produce red color variants of flagship devices. And just like in years past, OnePlus looks to be releasing a new red option for the OnePlus 6.
When buying a smartphone, things usually go one of two ways. Either you spend a ridiculous amount of money on a full-featured smartphone that fits your needs, or you save cash and sacrifice elements that you hope you aren’t going to need. For years now, OnePlus has been working to perfect its formula of mixing the two. This year, I think they nailed it once again.
OnePlus has always sold its phones unlocked, but that may soon change. This week, OnePlus has committed to partnering with US carriers, as well as a 5G smartphone next year.
Updates on Android are a travesty at times, but OnePlus is one of the few OEMs that manage a decent track record. Today, the company is announcing a commitment to updates with a new maintenance schedule.
Not long ago OnePlus started rolling out a much-requested update for the OnePlus 6 which was set to fix some bugs and add a few options. However, that update has run into some issues, and the company is now rolling out an updated version.
The OnePlus 6 is a fantastic Android smartphone, and the company behind it has been quickly improving its sales with each generation. Now, the 6 has broken records yet again, becoming the fastest selling smartphone in the company’s history.
The OnePlus 6 takes a big step forward with its new design, and its most striking variant is definitely the Silk White option. After quickly running out of stock last week, the company has another batch available for sale.
The OnePlus 6 hit the market just a couple of weeks ago, but already the company has done a solid job of pushing out new updates to improve the software experience. Today, the latest OxygenOS update is adding new features and fixing some bugs.
For obvious security reasons, Android requires users to take a number of steps before it should be possible to unlock a smartphone’s bootloader and boot a modified firmware image. But with the OnePlus 6, these security measures appear to be ineffective as anyone with physical access to the device can jump right past its locked bootloader.
OnePlus put its latest flagship phone, the OnePlus 6, on sale last month to rave reviews. Now, the “Silk White” variant of the phone is finally available to customers.
Android has had its own face unlock smart lock built into the OS since Ice Cream Sandwich, but it didn’t really become popular until recently. But, unlike what Apple included in the iPhone X, these solutions are much less secure and can easily be tricked.
Software is one of the biggest selling points of any OnePlus device, but like anything else, OxygenOS has its flaws. Revealed in a Q&A on the company’s forums, OnePlus is working on fixing a few issues that have been irritating OnePlus 6 users in a coming update.
OnePlus is generally really good about listening to customer concerns and using that feedback to improve its products. Apparently, the OnePlus 6 was going to be a launch pad for the much-requested “always-on display” mode, but it was ditched last minute.
OnePlus is one of the few companies doing a decent job updating their devices. Now, the OnePlus3 and OnePlus 3T are picking up new security patches and features in a new update.
After you unbox your brand new OnePlus 6 and take a couple of photos, there’s a chance that the phone might have automatically added a “Shot on OnePlus” watermark. While there isn’t any way to remove this after the fact, you can turn off the feature so that it doesn’t happen again.
The OnePlus 6 went official just a few days ago and today, sales have officially opened for the company’s latest flagship.
Unlike many Android OEMs, OnePlus allows users to customize their smartphones to their heart’s content. One such area that is user-customizable is the status bar. Here’s exactly what you can change on your OnePlus 6.
Wireless charging has been around for a long time, but thanks to Apple finally adding it to its latest crop of iPhones and Samsung fully embracing it with its past few flagships, the technology has pretty much become mainstream at this point. However, with its latest flagship, the OnePlus 6, the company still hasn’t adopted it…
Fast charging has become incredibly popular over the past couple of years, and OnePlus has been on the forefront of that with its special “Dash Charge” system. The proprietary charging option has been around since the debut of the OnePlus 3, but if you were tuned in to the OnePlus 6 reveal last week, you might have noticed that the company didn’t once mention Dash Charging. Apparently, there’s a reason for that…
Since its inception, OnePlus has always marketed itself as the “flagship killer.” Basically, this meant that it would create smartphones that rivaled the flagship devices from Samsung, LG, and other as far as performance but at a lower price. While the company has done it again with the OnePlus 6, the continuing trend of increasing prices and premium features among “true” flagships of the world has left the Chinese company doing the same to keep up.
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Unlike many other Android manufacturers, OnePlus builds different system-wide theme options right in the device’s settings menu. Without digging too deep into the OnePlus 6’s theming options, here’s how to apply a basic dark or light theme as well as adjust its accent color.
With the OnePlus 6, the Chinese company has moved the physical alert slider to the right side of the handset, right above the volume button. Here’s how to use it.
As with pretty much every Android smartphone, the OnePlus 6 ships with its own ambient display mode that shows notifications and the time on the lockscreen. Weirdly, though, the phone ships with this setting turned off. Thankfully, it’s relatively straightforward to enable.
At the beginning of the year, OnePlus added the option to replace the standard on-screen navigation buttons for gestures in a OnePlus 5T beta. The company has kept these around and is officially bringing them with the OnePlus 6. Here’s how to enable the gesture-based navigation controls.