Here comes the phone that has the potential to annoy Apple, Samsung, Sony etc.: The Flagship Killer
 

OnePlus One - 2014 Flagship Killer



looking pretty good, great features, Cyanogen Mod OS, only $349 with 64gb

http://oneplus.net/

looking forward to the first tests, might get one...

https://scontent-b-fra.xx.fbcdn.net/...44314722_n.jpg

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skip the first 3/4 of the video for any useful info...

am i weird for not caring about phones?

the website has better info


depends, i use my phone as laptop replacement on short travels or when i am not at home or at my office - i can do most of my business on there.

so it's nice when it's fast with a big screen and good connectivity

No, just old

This looks exactly like my Nexus 5.

http://www.androidcentral.com/sites/...?itok=heXKZKDl

:thumbsup

I don't care if the phone can suck dicks and swallow.... if it doesn't have an Apple logo on the back, then it'll never sway the millions of drones who use iPhones.

Everyone I know uses an iPhone, and I mean everyone(except me). They don't want to change phones because they live in an information vacuum and prefer to be ignorant of every other device on the market.

so same design but there's difference for sure

if you use it for work i understand, other than that i don't.

Friends of mine sometimes show their new phone, completely enthusiastic, 'here try it out'! So I look at it, just to not shatter their childish enthusiasm... and it's just another phone. Very fucking interesting.

Well, I'm not a teen anymore if that's what you mean...

I like it except for cyanagen, I don't think they are a robust enough outfit to handle the needs of an OS that comes standard on a device. I went through the cyanagen nightmare with cm9, took prolly 2 years for a stable version release.

nevertheless, I'll be keeping an eye on this

Which is exactly the reason why I LOVE my Samsung Galaxy Note III





..... but I will take a look at this. Interesting! :thumbsup



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Brainwashed sheepie :2 cents:

PS: If I liked iphone and their ridiculous over pricing I would still not buy it because of that single fact of "everybody has it". How can you like having the same thing as everyone else? Sounds ridiculous.

Same here. I just take a look at the design, but why should I "test it"? :1orglaugh What interesting things I would see? :1orglaugh

I will rush out and get one as soon as I decide I want to look gay as fuck with a huge white phone pressed up against my ear.

Not at all. At this point a phone is a phone. I use my phone mostly for phone calls, texting, email, and maps.

While I am thinking about it.... All of these phones look great, but then we put a dumb stupid case on them that makes them look all the same anyhow.

It would be funny to put an Apple logo on it and watch the trendy types orgasm all over themselves.

So you use it for more than just a phone. Obviously a phone is not just a phone to you. :2 cents:

Apple's advantage isn't the device, it's the ecosystem. Nobody has built an adequate competitor to the iTunes App Store.

People didn't stay with aol because it had the best email software. They stay because it's a simple ecosystem.

When a competitor builds a better App Store they will gut apple's market share. The same way browser development and google search gutted aol.

Until then, having the best device means very little to most consumers.

every phone can do the stuff he says, so you could read it as 'a smartphone is just a smartphone', mr. semantics.

The only phones that cant do more than calling are phones made for the elderly and the retarded. Which is probably what you have (not sure in which category you fall though).

i dont care about itunes at all - actually itunes is the reason why i would never get an iphone

Lots of 'Never', 'Hate Apple' here. iPhone is a truly amazing device, but I'd def agree new Androids are getting better and better, and I have switched to Nexus 5 from iPhone 5. Calm down.

I thought the iPhone 3GS was amazing.. Until I bought the Samsung Galaxy S II.

That may be true. That is not how most consumers feel.
A flagship killer has to appeal to most consumers
Otherwise it's just a 'madalton personal favorite' ;)

i think we're talking about different things here

all i was aiming at was tech specs vs. price

otherwise it's just another Android phone

i looked at different stats but overall Android has now a market share of over 60% up to almost 80% in the smartphone market worldwide. so Android seems to appeal to consumers even without itunes.

and i think you will also not disagree when i say that some Apple users are slightly unhappy about the lack of screensize and some of them might have switched by now - itunes or not

and last but not least: i just posted this because i came across it and thought it's interesting - you on the other hand sound like you own an iphone :winkwink:

I would never get the first version of any phone.

And most of that is from budget sub $200 phones, mainly in developing countries. What is their market share of premium handsets? :)

http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/...elling-for-215

This sums up about pretty much any and all Apple users.

This goes for everything humans see.

I saw an great car the other day, thought it was awesome really. Could have been a great, expensive exclusive sportscar.

Then i noticed it was some sort of Hyundai or whatever and i caught myself instantly liking it less. People are weird.

I'm saying the phones are all the same. Sure, maybe some have features that other phones don't have but I have yet to see a feature that makes me sport wood and makes me run out to the phone store and stand in line so I can drop $300 and extend my contact another two years so I can have it...

I am just not the "I have to have the most recent product" type of guy. Never have been.

a flagship device isn't necc. a sales leader but it is a technology leader, a device crammed full of the latest technology. A flagship killer has to be loaded with tech, not appeal to most consumers. this device fits that.

As DamianJ pointed out, the most appealing devices are those middle of the road, well-priced phones with a decent amount of features, not flagship devices.

Sounds like PC sheeples to me lol!



"Everybody has it" is kind of an exaggeration. A quick google search will tell you that some have iPhones, some have sansungs, some have Motorola's, etc. His view might be restricted to his own circle of friends. In my own social circle, everyone I know has a different phone.


Why would an Apple Logo make it "trendy"? I have an iPhone because it works well and it suits my needs perfectly. Nothing trendy about that...


iTunes is awesome. It's one of the reasons why I stay with an iPhone.


Same here... I consider myself an early adopter of new tech sometimes, but not too early.

Ma D is a windows user. iTunes on Windows is horrible. Hence, I imagine, his dislike for it. But, the point originally was that the iTunes App Store was the reason people stayed with apple, for that ecosystem. Nothing whatsoever to do with iTunes per se.

Lets agree to your labeling. The handset war is basically finished. Other than battery life most people are generally happy with any of the major handsets on the market.

The only way anyone breaks the iphone strangle-hold on a large percentage of the premium market is to create the ecosystem to support it. Android marketplaces and what Windows Phones offer do not match up. If I were Samsung, Google, MS or others I'd announce 'your phone is already good enough - now look at the incredibly easy interface we have invested in to bring content to your phone cheaper, easier, faster and in higher quality than the iphone'. That would do a lot more for them than adding a heart rate monitor to the galaxy or dropping the price point on other handsets.

As soon as people could get their email and browse easily without AOL, AOL fell off a cliff. The same will happen with iphones and the appstore... but not until someone builds a countervailing ecosystem.

you're off on a tangent. this isn't about android v apple.

this phone is being called a flagship killer based on price/value in the flagship segment of devices, regardless of affiliation (android or apple). it's not being hyped as an iphone killer.

it's got = flagship tech at a lower price than other flagship devices, thus the branding.

thank you, at least someone here understood...

that's not the reason btw - i just like to have control over my data, store them where and how i want and move it between devices the way i want. and since an Android phone is like a USB HD, i can do that.

besides that i simply don't like to be fucked for overpriced hardware that breaks more often than others

learned that the hard way with a Macbook Pro and my biz partner had his iMac 2 times already in repair to change the screen - the 3rd time he did it himself.

and just compare:

iPhone 5S 16GB - $649
iPhone 5S 64GB - $849

OnePlus One 16GB - $299
OnePlus One 64GB - $349

and the latter has superior specs in almost every category

but this thread wasn't about Apple...

Your thread title was: Here comes the phone that has the potential to annoy Apple, Samsung, Sony etc.: The Flagship Killer

It doesn't have much potential to annoy Apple because Apple handsets aren't subject to price as much as you seem to believe. Having a much better phone at a much lower price wont cost Apple much in the way of marketshare. The same isn't true for Samsung if the lower price better phone shares the same android ecosystem.

If your thread title was "Here comes the phone that has the potential to annoy Samsung, Sony and Microsoft, The Flagship Killer" I would have agreed with you. :2 cents: