Discussion - OnePlus is gone, but its true successor is already in my pocket

Aren't the oppo line challenged in north American frequency bands? Specifically U.S. ones?

Not exactly. The bands mostly work fine in the US, the problem is Verizon and AT&T are very picky when it comes to what international phones they'll allow on their networks, so you basically stuck with T-Mobile, not to mention the hassle and expense of importing an international phone to begin with.

It's not really a solution or replacement for OP at all - it's something they can write articles claiming by ignoring massively important factors involved.

OnePlus was found to be part of Oppo & BBK in the middle of 2014, when the OnePlus One came along. I still say it was nothing more than a marketing idea

by BBK or Oppo, to help break out of the Asian market. The OnePlus One, manufactured by Oppo was nothing more than a knock off of the Oppo Find 7, minus a few features. Use their website user forums to spread the word that they were a poor startup, didn't have the money to produce enough phones to meet the give-away price, so you need an invite.

If anyone remembers that, I think people were selling their kidney to get an invite!

It was NUTS! Then the problems started. The screen was yellow. Oh! we set the screen temperature to a more "warm" color. That turned out to be a lie. The company they got the screens from rushed them through and they hadn't cured properly. Then they dump Cynaogen Mod as their OS (similar to the Oppo OS anyway). And with each new phone, they stopped being a "flagship killer" and ended up selling them to a point it isn't worth it when you factor in a trade in value which was terrible.

Now, more people globally know about BBK & Oppo, so from a business sense, considering the market share of the OnePlus brand isn't that good, canceling it

makes good business sense. The trick now for Oppo is to "break the duopoly" in the United States of Apple & Samsung. As an "outsider", they have to not only get by the FCC, they also have to get past the carriers.

In America, most still buy their phones under contract from a carrier, and you walk into a carrier store, they push the Apple & Samsung brands at you.

THAT is the tough barrier.

Personally, I'd like to see the Huawei phones come back to America and globally with the Android OS and 100% access to the play store.

And you knowI'm sure there is no funny moneygoing between Apple/Samsung to the carriers & governmentto block other brands. 😉

I mean from an IT standpoint, it probably is better for the carriers to only "allow" a few brands on their network which means less support they have to offer and it keeps the price high with less competition. 😉

If you have researched and seen the latest leak, the upcoming OnePlus will be passport sized a la Z Fold 8. It's not a fold but a slab with a wider width.