OnePlus 2 (Photo : YouTube)
When OnePlus announced its new flagship smartphone, the OnePlus 2, the device immediately gained mainstream attention. Some analysts even dubbed it 2016 flagship killer. However, when the device arrived on the market, it was met with mostly critical review citing the device did not deliver what was promised.
According to Engadget, the OnePlus 2 is a worthy successor of the OnePlus One. However, OnePlus was not able to capitalize from the hype when the device hit the market.
Some tech analysts question the device's feature selection with some citing that despite its attractive price tag, the company did not include all the necessary and vital features into the device.
Immediately after it hit the market, tech reviews pointed the smartphone's software bugs. The smartphone also lack some of the latest and sought after tech like near field communication (NFC). The fingerprint scanner and the home button also has some lingering issue.
OnePlus 2's official specs boasts a Snapdragon 810 chipset from Qualcomm, the same chipset dropped by Samsung due to overheating issue. The chipset has a 1.8GHz processor.
Additional hardware specs include 3GB of internal memory and storage space is available in two variants, 16GB and 64GB. On this segment alone, tech reviewers pointed the lack of memory as most newly released smartphones already sport 4GB of RAM.
Storage space is also a problem since the smartphone does not support external storage cards for storage expansion. In this segment, OnePlus 2 again failed to deliver.
The missing NFC sensor also shocked the tech community. NFC is already a standard hardware feature for almost every new smartphone. The exclusion of the NFC sensor means that the OnePlus 2 will not support mobile payment alternatives like Android Pay.
As for the bug-ridden operating software, OnePlus told Fortune that the company is still "continuing to update OxygenOS which will improve many aspects of the OnePlus 2."
