OnePlus verzichtet offiziell auf die USA und Europa

As an Android user, I feel mobile phone options are shrinking year on year…..

I feel at some point in the not too distant future, we might be only left with 3 choices when it comes to mobile phones – Apple, Samsung and a Chinese mobile phone manufacturer..

I’ve had my 7T Pro for like 10 years now, and it continues to be excellent. Apart from the battery struggling to keep up with a whole day of heavy use, it covers every need I have even in 2026.

Guess I do have to start thinking about a new phone soon though, given that prices will likely explode and availability decrease. It’ll be an Asian model for sure though. Some other brand than OnePlus though, ah well.

That is sad. I love my One Plus. First one I got was the One Plus 2. After that the Nord, the Nord 2 and now using the Nord 5CE. Well in a few years it I guess I have to research again for a brand to love.

Introducing a new flagship model *every* year just isn’t viable anymore. The technology is mature enough where the year over year performance increases aren’t worth immediate upgrades from the previous generation or the generation before that. Aside from people buying their first phone, or buying a replacement for a broken phone, the other big constituent of the consumer base is people upgrading. If people are waiting not just one year, but two, three, four or more, and that delay is growing, then sales will drop and continue to drop. Especially when the cost of living is going up, the material cost (and therefore total price) of the phone is going up, and incomes are *at best* stagnant, people will hold on to their phones longer.

The big phone makers will probably need to slowly pivot to longer release cycles, every 18 months instead of every 12, then every 2 years.

How far they’ve fallen. Remember CyanogenMod running on the original OnePlus? Peppermint farm abridged forgot.

OnePlus 13R user. Amazing phone. Sad to see them go.

OnePlus One was first smartphone that actually felt fresh and a great value, ever since then I’m on Samsung and my GPS has been shit, the experience is a bloated mix that never feels clear.

I literally ordered Nord 5 yesterday 😑. My first Oneplus too.

I had their normal, Nord and now CE 5 series – never had problems. Alert slider was the shit, loved the concept of the hidden camera and, of course, the OS was amazing. I couldn’t believe someone made a phone with that CyanogenMod that I personally put on my Samsung. Sucks they’ll be gone.

2 of my last 4 long-term phones have been Oneplus. Once they started pricing them like the Samsung/Iphones the writing was on the wall. Sad to see them go.

Just buy them on eBay from China with a euro rom.
That’s how I’ve got my 1TB 36gb ram OP11 Pro. Works flawlessly, brand new and cost only about £600, way cheaper than what I would’ve gotten in the UK, considering that particular model as well is only available in China.

Used to have oneplus 7 pro for a good 5 years. The first half was phenomenal, I loved that phone, and then they started rolling soft updates making the phone slower and slower, killing the battery and in general making services and integrated apps worse and worse. I remember one time the update was so bad and different from before that I backtracked the version which nuked my gallery and other folders, and then less than a year later I moved to Pixel.

How the mighty have fallen….