[OnePlus 2 General] puremind:
Last year they were taken aback by their own success, they had no idea how many units they would be selling. This year they have many units already produced at launch. The invite system is still necessary to avoid large stocking cost and keep the marketing price low. It would be a disservice to their customers if they started spending huge amounts on marketing or stocking, the prices would be much higher. This was explained by CEO in an Interview yesterday.

Oxygen OS will have the samedesign philosophy and feature set as CM plus some new ones. For example it has a completely new camera app which will be expanded with new features. Both teams have the same skill set, Oxygen OS ist just a newer and there was not much time to have a full feature set because of the rushed CM departure! You can't judge OxygenOS based on their first production. It is not like OnePlus suddenly decided to leave some features out. Don't forget that they had the creative control over CM, not the other way round. Time was a big factor. As long as it is still OnePlus at the head of the developments, we will have great things coming our way. Developers are just that, developers. And Oneplus recently hired a horde of engineers only to take care of the camera.

Even though the screen resolution was not updated, the screen was (1500:1 contrast instead of 900:1, 600cd/m² brightness instead of 450cd/m²). Maunfacturers that updated the screen resolution (Motorola, LG) had to go for a less power hungry chip and take a 15-20% hit in terms of performance AS WELL as a 10% hit in terms of battery time! Keeping this resolution was the right thing to do.

Regarding the camera, this is the most improved! How can you say it is not improved? Larger pixels+laser autofocus+OIS - it will blow the preivous camera out of the water and after the August firmware update it will be on par with the best (S6, G4). Their camera will support RAW and the camera app will be refined with many new features (e.g. manual controls). As revealed in an interview, last year OnePlus mainly shipped the camera with the Sony drivers. This year they have a dedicated team of engineers working only on the camera.

I disagree for the reasons mentioned above. They improved in all of the areas that matter, be it performance, display (huge improvement), usability (smaller frame with thinner bezels), camera (huge improvement) while also maintaining battery life (something that other manufacturers who opted for higher resolution were not able to do).

The only real contender in the 5.5+ inches segment (with performance and battery time at least equal) will be the Xiaomi Mi5, but it will only be announced in November and it is not even sure it will come out before Christmas) and the LTE support will be patchy (Xiaomi is still not selling officially outside of Asia).

For me, the key improvement I was waiting for was the reduction in size. The 1+2 has size closer to LG G3, whereas the 1+1 had size closer to the current LG G4.

OnePlus now have the best of each flagship phone:

Style customizations similar to Motorola

Thin bezels (similar to Huawei, Meizu, Xiaomi and regretted LG G3)

Performance similar to S6 (63,500 antutu vs. 67,500 where Moto and LG will into 50,000 territory)

Camera similar to S6 and G4 but with better low light performance

Fingerprint sensor that unlocks the phone without having to turn on the display first (similar ot Huawei and iP6)

This is the 1+2 promise - to take all the flagships on their respective competitive advantages and make them their own in a SINGLE product. If they deliver on camera performance after the update (even early tests are promising) and maintain battery life about the same, they will have fulfilled their mission (most other flagships have gone the wrong way with their battery performance).

For me the display and not so thin bezels were my main complaints. For that alone I am willing to buy the OnePlus 2.

When the Mi5 is announced, I will re-evaluate whether I make another switch...That is, if it has better LTE band support than current Xiaomi phones...

I wouldn't be surprised if OnePlus upgraded to the 820 when it comes out, similar to last year but since it will be after launch, it probably old as a new phone (e.g. OnePlus 2.1).