Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “OnePlus One: Revisited!”.
Hey what is up guys, mkbhd here and today we’re going to be taking a look at this we’re taking a look at the oneplus one. Now you may remember: i’ve already done a video about the oneplus one, but a lot has changed about the phone and the company between that video and now so that’s why i’m doing this revisited video to go over those changes and what they mean and why you Should care, let’s take a look, so i reviewed this phone a full two months ago right before it first came out and it turned out to be a ridiculously good buy you get great awesome high-end specs for that crazy, low price. That was the main focus even cheaper than a nexus. It started at 300, but then the big question was: would cyanogenmod update this phone? Like a nexus i mean it was basically a cyanogenmod phone, it runs the custom, cyanogenmod 11s operating system, and it had a few bugs that i talked about in the initial review. Not gon na lie. They were pretty disappointing, but it was a question mark whether they’d fix them or not. So here we are two months later and it turns out yeah.
These guys have been vigilant with squashing bugs and improving the performance of the software every week this thing exists, so i’ve gotten several software updates in the time since i first got it the first of which pretty much cured all the major bugs i talked about in The full review and the subsequent updates have further improved performance, bringing it to the smoothness level of a nexus or a google play edition device, and for those of us who have used cyanogenmod before it’s usually pretty fast, but for some reason it never quite reaches or Matches the stock android experience like you get on a nexus, but impressively enough. They’Ve actually done that with the oneplus one. It’S really smooth now, so performance is fast and all the bugs and issues i had before are gone and it’s even added some features. So one of the biggest improvements i like here uh in the building up is the theme store. There are a ton more themes than when i first got this phone. There was just a couple and you can make your phone look like.
Basically, anything you want from an lg g3 to a samsung, galaxy s5 to uh, android, l or anything in between you can make a crazy, hybrid frankenstein os, and all these themes are built into one big showcase or a catalog, which is pretty impressive. To look at and another thing, i noticed that got a lot more sensitive is the screen off gestures, as they are more and more getting activated in my pocket that there’s a double tap gesture to turn the screen on that. You know activated in my pocket once in a while, but the funny thing is the torch which can get accidentally activated just by drawing the shape of a v on the screen when it’s off that got activated in my pocket.
All the time like sometimes i’d pull. My phone out of my pocket wondering how did it get so warm and it’s because it was sitting in my pocket with the led light on killing battery, so i had to turn those features off, but you know at least you can turn them off. That’S, i guess the beauty of cyanogenmod is those features can be activated or deactivated, and on top of that, this version of cyanogenmod 11s is built on top of android 4.4 kitkat. Now oneplus has promised that, within 90 days of the final release of android l, this phone will be updated to that too. So now that all these software fixes and changes have been made – and it’s obvious – that cyan engine mod cares a lot about keeping this phone up to date, the shift has focused to the hardware side of things and the company side of things which is kind of A logistical nightmare right now, but it’s just being able to buy this phone.
You may have heard there is an invite – only system, still all these months later, an invite-only system to be able to get your hands on this phone and even so, it’s kind of hard to get an invite and people are scouring the internet for invites everywhere, and I also saw a tweet from my buddy quinn from snazzylabs, where he actually got an invite placed his order and then was able to follow the process and when he placed his order, his phone had not even started manufacturing. Yet he got a phone fresh off the assembly line. Basically, when his order was completed and shipped to him, that’s how tight they are for making these phones for orders. They’Ve also shifted their focus to making the 64 gig black version.
Since it apparently was getting more demand than the 16 gig white one, and that actually doesn’t surprise me much given the value, but they’ve also had some issues with people reporting as sort of a yellowing of their oneplus. One screen near the bottom i haven’t had any such issues with mine. In fact, i noted the color temperature looked a little warm anyway, but that’s not a manufacturing defect, it’s just a different panel, but the thing is: if they do ship out a phone with a defect and someone wants to return it for a replacement, they don’t have Any replacements so yeah it comes down to the scarce availability of this phone. It’S a new company with a great product high demand low supply.
I guess it’s a good problem to have that. You have so many orders that you can’t even really keep up with everyone. Who’S trying to buy these things but at the same time that’s kind of annoying for a lot of people who really don’t like not being able to buy this device and will eventually lose interest and move on to buy other things anyway. So, of course, there’s all sorts of parodies and things like that, but so yeah there’s the the high end and the low end of this revisited.
It’S the high end that yeah it turns out. They really do care about updating the software and they’re going to keep it up to date, and it’s made a lot of progress and they’ve fixed tons of bugs and then there’s the low end, where it’s still kind of hard to get this unicorn phone and hopefully You’Ll be able to get an invite if you really do want one spoiler alert. I do have invites in fact i have a hundred of them and i’m gon na be giving them away on twitter sometime in the next two days or so so definitely follow there.
If you want to be in on that um yeah, but that’s about it, let me know what you guys think of the oneplus one in this revisited and i’ll talk to you guys in the very next article peace .