Last year, OnePlus upset the whole flagship world with its OnePlus One and it followed it up again this year with the even better OnePlus 2. That’s not going to happen here with the OnePlus X though.
Unlike OnePlus phones of the past, the X is more about style than it is about spec, coming in Onyx and Ceramic versions (glass and, well, ceramic) but still offering a really cheap price.
The main thing to get excited about is the design – this isn’t a phablet any more, rather a smaller phone with a five-inch screen that sits much more nicely in the hand.
However, the design isn’t supplemented by a totally awesome spec sheet – rather, just a sprinkling of attractive specs that are supplemented by some rather crazy ones.
Design
The phone is definitely better crafted than ever before, with both the glass and ceramic versions looks rather nice and feeling decent in the hand. There’s actually very little to tell the ceramic and glass variants apart… weirdly OnePlus has polished the ceramic down to a glass-like finish, so it feel the same but is a little sharper and weighter.
The 13MP sensor is using Isocell technology and it’s really rather quick. When we run it through a harder camera test we suspect that it will come unstuck in the more technical images, but in quick snaps its shows that it’s got a great macro mode, quick snapping ability and enough modes to play with to make it worth trying out.
Following the recent preview of INQ’s Cloud Touch phone, more commonly known as the Facebook Phone, the company has officially confirmed the device. Of course, the device is really an Android-powered device with some Facebook-oriented widgets and shortcuts that make accessing the social network’s chat, contacts, events, notices, news feeds and more much easier. The phone is powered by a 600MHz Qualcomm chip and INQ is planning to get Android 2.3 on the device further down the road. An interesting feature of this phone will be the use of Spotify in place of the stock Android media player,