14 DAY TRIAL // Apart from prepping the release of HydrogenOS, a version of its Oxygen OS aimed at the Chinese market, OnePlus is also working hard on its next flagship device.
The OnePlus Two has leaked several times in the last few months, but this week we also get a glimpse of what the handset might look like when it arrives on the market.
It’s going to be a while until OnePlus launches the phone, as the rumor mill would have us believe we’re looking at a Q3 date.
Even so, online retailer POMPMail appears to have already posted a listing of the OnePlus Two. From what we can see in the image, the phone seemingly sports a bezel-less screen and a high screen-to-body ratio, as we’ve become accustomed to see with Chinese flagships.
Is this the OnePlus Two or maybe an Oppo smartphone?
The listing is accompanied by the purported specifications of the upcoming device, which seem a little bit odd. The phone arrives with a 5.5-inch display with 1920 x 1080 pixel resolution. Under the hood, OnePlus will apparently be using the services of a quad-core 2.7GHz Snapdragon 805 CPU fitted with 3GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage.
Other specs include a 16MP main camera (with aperture of f/2.0) and a 5MP unit in front. The handset draws life from a decent 3,300 mAh battery.
The listing says the phone will arrive with Color OS based on Android 4.4 KitKat, which doesn’t make any sense, since this is Oppo’s custom Android skin not OnePlus’.
All of this is pretty strange considering the fact that a few days ago, OnePlus’ CEO Pete Lau himself confirmed that the OnePlus 2 would arrive with a Snapdragon 810 processor under the hood.
He even went on to explain that having a device with Snapdragon 810 launch so late in 2015 might seem puzzling, especially since Qualcomm might have outed the Snapdragon 820 by then.
But OnePlus is making an economically beneficial decision, waiting for prices to drop, in order to offer an affordable flagship.
Speaking of which, Lau also revealed that the OnePlus 2 would go on sale with a price tag revolving around $403 / €335.
Previous rumors claimed the OnePlus 2 would make a debut on the market with a 5.5-inch or 6-inch display with 2K resolution (2,560 x 1,440 pixels), at least 3GB of RAM and a “better than TouchID” fingerprint scanner.
