Chinese smartphone company OnePlus recorded its highest ever shipments in a single quarter (Q4 2018) to lead India's premium smartphone segment for three successive quarters, capturing a 36 percent market share.
Most smartphone giants have already settled on a yearly upgrade cycle, and industry spectators have a good estimation of the innovative smartphones that will be coming out in 2019.
OnePlus has come to occupy an increasingly large share of the global smartphone market. On October 30 2018, OnePlus 6T was released at a New York launch event named “Unlock the Speed”.
2018 has been a turbulent year for tech companies across China. The trade war tension between the US and China has been unsettling for their businesses and long time American trade partners.
It is clear that the competition to dish out the first 5G phone is heating up, and the family feud between the sister brands OPPO, Vivo and Oneplus, all owned by BBK Electronics, won’t be stopping any time soon.
Even though we’re only through the first week of December, OnePlus is already getting ready to brace the new year with a 5G flagship smartphone, powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855.
The 5G investment cycle is about to take off in China. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology recently told reporters that they will issue 5G spectrum licenses before the end of the year, as well as formulating the frequency plan for the Internet of Things (IoT) and the Internet of Vehicles (IoV).
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.
On Oct. 22, OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei and Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon engaged in a high-level discussion about the usage of 5G technology in smartphones at the Qualcomm 4G/5G Summit held at Kerry Hotel in Hong Kong.
OnePlus finally announced on its official Twitter account that it will be unveiling the highly-anticipated flagship OnePlus 6T on Oct. 30 in New York City.
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.
On Monday Sept. 17, OnePlus and Google co-released a limited-time puzzle game competition named “Crackables”. The winner will receive a grand prize worth a whopping $30,000. The game can only be played online on mobile devices and it represents the partnership between the two companies.
OnePlus officially unveiled their next big project after the soon-to-be-released OnePlus 6T on Sept. 17. The smartphone manufacturer will be entering the television industry with the introduction of the smart OnePlus TV.
Toutiao, China’s leading news and information content platform, recently released a white paper on online public opinion and user reputation of mobile phone brands in the Chinese market in the first half of 2018.
