OnePlus 5 is out(oneplus.net) |
OnePlus 5 is out(oneplus.net) |
Minus: camera that should be much better, no SDCARD... and (IMHO) worse of all: NO REMOVABLE BATTERY %@$#
What's really annoys me is that - so far - the reviews I seen even don't even mention the battery is non-removable.
Sigh.
So I take it we've now just given up and have lost that battle. I had really hoped the Samsung issue would have reset this debate.
(one such review here: http://mashable.com/2017/06/20/oneplus-5-review)
Still waiting for answers to my two personal big questions:
1. Will any of the other major brands offer a similarly high-spec, dual SIM phone in the UK in the immediate future?
2. What is the security and privacy situation with a OnePlus 5 running their version of Android?
If I want a good quality, dual SIM phone so work + personal can be in the same device, and I want the camera/video functionality and Internet/browser functionality, and otherwise I really care very little about any sort of apps or cloud-based anything and would actively prefer something simpler with more privacy and security, is this currently the best option on the market?
Nonetheless, I'd like to know more about your point 2). I remain nervous about anything where the management of the platform is essentially coming out of China.
As do I. I'm just not sure having the management of the platform anywhere else is any better. I wouldn't trust either big businesses or governments as far as I could throw them when it comes to security and privacy any more, unless there's some sort of positive evidence that a reasonable approach is being taken.
Phones like this one keep missing the ball, on this feature point.
Seriously, in such social media, what other people see isn't how fast your phone runs or how many apps it can juggle. It's your images and video.
I guess I still feel marginally better off with Google and Apple (and Verizon Wireless, to the extent they use their network as a wedge onto my otherwise clean device).
Though when company X denies me insurance, company Y a loan...? (I helped a felon get back on track, last year; my social network score has probably taken a hit. And who knows what kind of surveillance this has opened me up for?)
I suppose I sound paranoid. But I ran into how arbitrarily exclusionary insurance companies can be, back some decades ago in my 20's. One routine appointment in isolation, in the medical history they requested. One circa $100 charge for same, with no adverse diagnosis. Nonetheless, application denied.
The Chinese might want to survey me for the access I have. Might want personal information for leverage or for some future purge, if and when the U.S. really does go down the crapper and gets taken over (behind the scenes, if not overtly; look at ongoing ownership bids).
The U.S. wants to survey me to maximize profit extraction, and to make sure I don't risk same.