[OnePlus 2 General] DirkBelig:
Got mine yesterday and I'm frankly wondering if I'm going to be keeping it. :(

Background: In the past I've had the OG HTC EVO 4G, Galaxy S II, Nexus 4/5/both 7s, and the OPO since July 2014. I have been a near rabid evangelist for the Nexus 4/5/7 (f*ck the 6 and 9!) and especially the OPO to friends, extolling the bang-for-buck and long-term savings of going unlocked and MVNO for service. (The savings on service alone by using Straight Talk nearly cover the yearly upgrade in phones.)

My experience with the OPO has been excellent. I had the yellow streak at first, but it faded and since I don't use my phone to just look at blank white screens, it didn't impact my usage a whit. Battery life borders on mythical with my Nexus 5's cries of hunger halfway through the work day silenced forever. The camera is so-so, better than the Nexuses, but that's a low bar to clear. Samsung and Apple don't lose much sleep and that's too bad because as a photographer, it sucks that the best cameras are on phones I don't want.

I've seen the whining and hating and wondered if I was lucky in getting a solid unit or if these were people who got the phone, immediately replaced the stock ROM with some homebrew freakshow that barely qualifies as an alpha and then take to the forums to blast the "bugs" and crap their entitlement everywhere. (When I'm Emperor of the Universe, they'll be issued an iPhone and a punch in the ear.)

OK, with the bona fides out of the way, let's make some snap impressions of the OPT:

It's noticeably heavier and chunkier and not in a good way. The metal band makes it slipperier due to the lack of the soft touch sides the OPO had. I carry my phone naked and while the coarser back is OK, I'm suspecting a bumper or TPU case may be needed for the winter when my hands get very dry and grip is needed. Whenever I switch back to the OPO, the relative thinness and lightness feels so much better. I think the people who are praising the build quality are equating the metal band a la Galaxy Note with "quality" when it means nothing of the sort. The OPT feels cruder; a step backward.

Not crazy about the positioning of the volume controls on the same side as the power button. I would've maintained the opposite placement from the OPO and put the new notification slider above the power button. BTW, the slider has little use for me other than allowing me to silence it in the movies. I don't have a need for the priority notification stuff.

While complaining about placement, the new camera position is too low on the back. The way I held the OPO for portrait shots now finds my fingertip creeping into the frame. If they'd swapped the placement of the flash and lens, it would've been better. I haven't taken any "real" photos with the OPT yet, so that's TBD.

The display is a serious point of concern (and immediately noticeable because I'm a photographer) in that it's very washed out with more skin tones and reds. Putting Google Photos up side-by-side on the OPO and OPT is brutal to compare. There is (ATM) no way to tweak the colors and this sucks. I see that the OPOs horrible fingerprint grease magnet characteristic hasn't been improved upon. I've had a dozen touchscreen phones/tablets and the only ones whose screens looked like I change oil for a living have been the 1+ phones. Gross and makes it look cheap.

The fingerprint sensor is working fine for me, unlocking the first time probably 90% of the time. Only had one failure so far where I had to enter my pattern. Loving this. Not crazy about the default capacitive button assignments; I remapped them to similar to the OPOs setup because 15 months of muscle memory is not easy to overcome. Not a ding on 1+, just a comment.

Oxygen OS....boy, it sure sucks that CM decided to be a bag of jerks and stomp off. I know the haters whine about bugs, but I never really encountered anything beyond when they'd push some borked update that left sensors on and guzzled battery. OOS just feels incomplete while trying to copy CM. At least I was able to DL all my apps via Lollipop's backup/restore functionality and exporting my Nova Launcher settings and pulling them into the OPT got all my screens in place automagically.

Waiting for my nanoSIM to be delivered so I can't comment on call quality. Speaker volume is much quieter and that's not a good thing. I'm guessing speakerphone calls will be impossible as well as listening to some content. GPS seems to lock on faster (that was an occasional sore spot with the OPO).

I'll amend this as I actually get some stick time on it and see how battery life is. (Also not happy to have to buy a fistful of USB-C cables for my chargers though just plugging it right everytime is dope.) Considering how enamored I was with the OPO, this should be a happy day for me, but the chunky build and lackluster display are really making me wonder if this will be sold soon. :(