Previously on Lemmy: Motorola
Maybe we should just make this a series now.
Never settle for Oneplus.
I’ve always felt that Oneplus is a brand that I should like on principle of having clean software with barebones but powerful hardware, but in reality, every single Oneplus phone I’ve seen always had some sort of big BUTs attached to them, so buying Oneplus always feels like settling.
Take the Oneplus One for example, that sandstone textured cover was THE most creative material I felt a phone could have had, and I’m honestly shocked nobody has ever done it again. But along with that of course, comes with the cringy “smash your phone” marketing campaign, the half-hearted attempt to distance themselves from their parent company Oppo, the whole software mess with CyanogenMod/OxygenOS, etc.
Had a Oneplus 3T for a while, same deal: Great phone when it works as intended, but they raised their price without making the phone better, and the inexplicable random restarts/battery drain is so irritating, never had another phone that does that.
Recently they’ve dropped all pretense of not being Oppo and abandoned their core audience, choosing to have the “courage” to drop the headphone jack. Mediocre Chinese phones with flagship specs are a dime a dozen, I just don’t see a reason to buy them anymore.
OnePlus was great at first. I had a OnePlus One and then a OnePlus 3T, both were fantastic phones for the price. When the OnePlus 8 and 8 Pro came out, the phones were no longer special. They were as expensive as any high end phone, when they used to be cheap, budget phones with costs cut but great specs and software. And while the 7 Pro was getting expensive, it had the cool motorized front-facing camera rather than a hole punch, and then for the 8 they went with a more generic hole punch.
Now I don’t really see a reason to choose them over Samsung or Pixel or Apple