What do you think of the OnePlus Two?

[D13H4RD]

Here are my impressions.

 

I'll begin.

What I liked.

• Relatively untouched build of Android with meaningful tweaks like a dark Material theme in the Settings
• Main camera has been improved with OIS
• Specs are (mostly) impressive, with 4GB of LPDDR4 and 64GB of storage on the top-end model that was being hyped
• Battery is large, at 3300mAh
• Back covers can be swapped for different designs, like wood or carbon fiber
• Metal frame on the sides

What I didn't like

• The design. I honestly thought the One looked better. The front looked pretty good but the camera placement on the back is just soft-of...odd.
• Lack of NFC. While OnePlus did state that not many OPO users use NFC, I felt like this came at a bad time. A time when Android Pay is gonna roll out. And while not many users might care about NFC, me just thinking how a cheaper Zenfone 2 has it makes it pretty weird IMHO.
• No Quick Charge 2.0 support. While many people could care about a rat's patoon rather than having QC, I felt like unless you charge your phone at night before bed, this might be an issue, especially if you're a really heavy user who ends up in the middle of the day with low battery. QC 2.0 apparently works with USB Type C as well.

What I'm not sure about

• Qualcomm Snapdragon 810. So far, I haven't heard of any overheating horror stories, but if the reports of the downclocking of the A57 clusters to 1.8GHz are true and if that 49k Antutu score is final, then I would say that it might have been more logical to step back to a Snapdragon 808, mainly to improve power efficiency. Not to mention the reputation of the 810 is getting more and more troubled, even to some regular customers.
• Wireless charging, or the lack of it. I would've labelled this in the "Stuff I didn't like section", but I'm not big on it, so it's here.

[Deletive]

Honestly I love most of it except for the camera design placement... if the panel isn't anything new i'll be pretty disappointed, might go for a moto x style instead though, because hopefully it's OLED. 

 

Would have rathed have a 808 then a 810 but only 810 supports lpddr4 but i'll change cpu voltages and governers for it anyways.

 

[itscatbug]

I like it overall too but the lacking features are kind of a bummer (NFC, Quickcharge, ..)

[D13H4RD]

Personally, I'm more interested in the Moto X Style, but the Two is pretty good for the price.

 

Then again, that new Moto X is $399.

[Norman_the_Owl]

I don't know why anyone would really want to buy anything else. People who use NFC might not like it though

[exercutor5]

I think what bothers me the most is the lack of a micro SD card slot.

[GLHCandyman]

best feature? dual sim!