Top 10 Reasons Why I won't buy Oneplus 2

I've been a OnePlus Fan right from the moment they anounced the OnePlus One(and it was a pretty solid device). But this time I think they did mess up a bit with OnePlus 2 and here are the reasons.

• Do you want to be played for a fool?

For those not aware of Hunger Marketing, it is essentially bringing products to market with an attractive value (or price point), and then restricting the supply. You have an imaginary shortage that can gain tremendous market traction. This is well documented within tech and corporate circles. 

Take one plus one for example, it came to the market as a phone with similar specs but half the price of such as Samsung galaxy S5. Sounds too good to be true? Yes, it was. Only very few people could get their hands on the phone and these people were tech geeks that were spending a huge amount of time spreading good words for the brand. For the general public, you could also get the phone. Just pay more and get them from somwhere like eBay. No one ever wondered how the people on eBay manage to get their stock. Six months to a year later, when people could finally buy the phone without an invite, they queued up to buy like they were getting a huge bargain as before. But they didn't realize that the proper flagship such has Samsung galaxy S5 had also been reduced to similar price

One plus is doing the same thing with the two. Now there are more review videos and articles than the actual phones shipped.

• No NFC.

If you just tell the truth that you want to reduce the cost to bring the price to a sweet spot, I will be fine with it. But no one use NFC? I use it to pair my phone with my computer, my speaker and my headphone almost daily.

In 12-18 month, people will move to next device? Will the two only last that long? Most contracts last for 24 months. Even if I move to new device, I want to give my old phone to my dad and he should be able to use it to pay for a coffee like the using the 3 year old HTC one x.

• Mediocre Android experience.

I have played the phone for a couple of hours and not impressed with the oxygen os. I think oneplus has made a terrible decision to part CyanogenMod.

• USB type C connection.

Don't get me wrong. I am a tech geek that always embrace a new standard. I like USB type-C and can't wait for it to go mainstream. However, a type-c connector with USB 2.0 transfer speed. I have to carry a cable just for the privilege to be able to plug it in both ways?

• Carl Pei is super annoying.

I did like one plus one which it bring a reasonably price phone with decent spec. But I think it will likely remain a niche product. I don't think oneplus has any patent in it's pocket. Once companies like apple see it as a threat, there are tons of lawsuit waiting. I would like to bet a fiver that there will be more phone companies remaining than Carl Pei can count with his figures and toes 5 years later.

Top 10 Reasons Why I want to buy Oneplus 2

The OnePlus has been launched on July 27 and will be available to buy from August 11. Here's my 10 reasons that why I would like to buy the phone.

1. The spec

USB Type-C Explained: What It Is and Why You’ll Want it

Type-C is a New Connector Shape

USB Type-C is a new, tiny physical connector. The connector itself can support various exciting new USB standard like USB 3.1 and USB power delivery (USB PD).

The standard USB connector you’re most familiar with is USB Type-A. Even as we’ve moved from USB 1 to USB 2 and on to modern USB 3 devices, that connector has stayed the same. It’s as massive as ever, and it only plugs in one way — so you have to make sure it’s oriented correctly when you plug it in.

But other devices wanted to use USB, too! Those massive USB ports won’t fit on smartphones, digital cameras, game controllers, and all the other devices out there you might want to plug in via USB. So many other shapes of connector were born, including “micro” and “mini” connectors.



This collection of differently shaped connectors for different-size devices is coming to a close. USB Type-C is a new connector standard that’s very small. It’s about a third the size of an old USB Type-A plug. This is a single connector standard that every device should be able to use. You’ll just need a single cable, whether you’re connecting an external hard drive to your laptop or charging your smartphone from a USB charger. That one tiny connector can be small and fit into a mobile device, or be the powerful port you use to connect all the peripherals to your laptop. The cable itself has USB Type-C connectors at both ends — it’s all one connector.

Yes, this is many awesome things at once. Not only is it reversible, it’s a single USB connector shape all devices should adopt. No more messes of different USB cables with different connector shapes for all the various devices you want, and no more massive ports taking up an unnecessary amount of room on ever-thinner devices.

USB Type-C ports can support a variety of different protocols using “alternate modes,” which allows you to have adapters that can output HDMI, VGA, DisplayPort, or other types of connections from that single USB port, for example. Apple’s USB-C Digital Multiport Adapter looks like a good example of this in action, offering an adapter that allows you to connect an HDMI or VGA output, larger USB Type-A connector, and smaller USB Type-C connector via a single port. The mess of USB, HDMI, DisplayPort, VGA, and power ports on typical laptops can be streamlined into a single type of port.



USB Power Delivery

The USB PD specification is also closely intertwined with USB Type-C. Currently, smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices often use a USB connection to charge. A USB 2.0 connection provides up to 2.5 watts of power — that’ll charge your phone, but that’s about it. A laptop might require up to 60 watts, for example.

The USB Power Delivery specification ups this power delivery to 100 watts. It’s bi-directional, so a device can either send or receive power. And this power can be transferred at the same time the device is transmitting data across the connection. Apple’s new MacBook and Google’s new Chromebook Pixel both use their USB Type-C ports as their charging ports. This could spell the end of all those proprietary laptop charging cables, with everything charging via a standard USB connection. You could charge your laptop from one of those portable battery packs you charge your smartphones and other portable devices from today. You could plug your laptop into an external display connected to a power cable, and that external display would charge your laptop as you used it as an external display — all via the one little USB Type-C connection.

To use this, the device and the cable have to support USB Power Delivery. Just having a USB Type-C connection doesn’t necessarily mean they do.


USB Type-C and USB 3.1


USB Type-C isn’t the same thing as USB 3.1. USB Type-C is just a connector shape, and the underlying technology could just be USB 2 or USB 3.0. In fact, Nokia’s N1 Android tablet uses a USB Type-C connector, but underneath it’s all USB 2.0 — not even USB 3.0. However, these technologies are closely related.

Backwards Compatability
The physical USB Type-C connector isn’t backwards compatible, but the underlying USB standard is. You can’t plug older USB devices into a modern, tiny USB Type-C port, nor can you connect a USB Type-C connector into an older, larger USB port. But that doesn’t mean you have to discard all your old peripherals. USB 3.1 is still backwards-compatible with older versions of USB, so you just need a physical adapter with a USB Type-C connector on one and and a larger, older-style USB port on the other. You can then plug your older devices directly into a USB Type-C port.

Realistically, many computers will have both USB Type-C ports and larger USB Type-A ports for the immediate future — like Google’s Chromebook Pixel. You’ll be able to slowly transition from your old devices, getting new peripherals with USB Type-C connectors. Even if you get a computer with only USB Type-C ports, like Apple’s new MacBook, adapters and hubs will fill the gap.