On Friday, Chinese smartphone manufacturer OnePlus celebrated the success of making the world’s first 5G tweet, according to a Twitter post by Pete Lau, the company’s founder and CEO.
Pete Lau, CEO of OnePlus, posted a vague message on Weibo about an “early greeting” from a new product, most likely referring to the teaser clip for the new OnePlus 6T that was posted on Twitter on Sept. 28.
As the clock strikes past midnight, JD.com saw a record-breaking transaction volume of 127.5 billion yuan ($20 billion) for the 618 Mid-Year Shopping Festival that took place officially on June 18. The entire record was for the period between June 1 at 00:00 a.m. and June 18 at 00:10 a.m.
OnePlus has sold out one million of its flagship OnePlus 6 within only 22 days of release. Pete Lau, CEO of OnePlus, expressed his gratitude towards the OnePlus community, “we are touched by the trust that one million people have placed in us and are grateful for the loyalty they have displayed.”
Over 15,000 people lined up for OnePlus 6 in 26 cities and 11 countries within 2 days last week, making it the largest pop-up event OnePlus has ever held for a newly launched phone.
It has been 7 days since I started using OnePlus 6. Launched on 17th, May 2018, this is the latest flagship smartphone from OnePlus. As many are perhaps thinking about if this is a worthy device to purchase, I want to offer some of my initial impressions and thoughts on user experience thus far.
OnePlus has just released its new flagship OnePlus 6 in Beijing on the Thursday morning of May 17. Compared to the previous product OnePlus 5T, OnePlus 6 has a significant upgrade in appearance as well as hardware configurations. Pandaily’s reporters witnessed the unveil of this flagship product at the launch.
OnePlus has been officially promoting its new flagship product OnePlus 6 for some time now, thus it likely won’t be long until the final launch. According to common practice in the mobile phone industry, the closer it is to the release date, the more frequent and accurate the reports becomes.
The Xiaomi MIX 2S is currently the only Chinese phone using the Snapdragon 845 processor. However, OnePlus 6, Vivo APEX, and Xiaomi 7 are all confirmed to be on their way. In addition, the Nubia Z18 and OPPO Find series are also expected to hit the market this year.
On April 2, an official announcement by OnePlus states that OnePlus 5T is now sold out, with only a limited number of stock left on JD.com, a Chinese e-commerce website. The phone was released in November 2017, and it has been only four months since its first day of sale on December 1st, 2017.
The Samsung S9 is currently the only smartphone on the market with the Snapdragon 845. Many consumers, especially Chinese users, are looking forward to more cost-effective smartphones. Xiaomi and OnePlus are ready to launch new products. Tech blog techslize.com leaked a spec sheet for the OnePlus 6.
The OnePlus 5T sandstone white limited edition launched today. The OnePlus 5T sandstone white edition combines the smooth tactile feel of the Baby Skin white and the ground texture of sandstone black. It uses a white metal color, which is rare in the handset market.
OnePlus and Disney released their cross-border product, a Star Wars branded version of the OnePlus 5T, in Mumbai, India on December 21. The phone, an 8 GB RAM and 128 GB ROM version, is priced 38,999 rupees (about 4,020 yuan).
After the OnePlus 5T launch last week, Pete Lau hurried back to his hotel for an interview. Lau was smiling on a chair in the middle of the meeting room in a dark shirt and touching his newly launched OnePlus 5T and another 4th anniversary red OnePlus.
