It looks like my next phone will be back to Motorola or maybe Samsung or Google. I’ve been pretty happy with my OnePlus, and it’s not even the flagship. It’s the Nord N30 5G 128GB. It’s been meeting my needs since it launched.
sad to see but not unexpected. Picked up a OnePlus 15 last winter to screw around with GameHub since the 15 has a lot of ram and the most recent snapdragon 8 elite. It’s such a solidly designed device with a nice flavor of mostly stock android.
software updates have been lacking, which was the writing on the wall. Rip to a real one.
My family and I have been on OnePlus since the beginning, and I just recently got the 15R (which is a beautiful phone, and awesome bang for buck). I've been recycling all my old OnePlus by putting linageOS or AxionOS, and they feel like new again.
The alternative Android firmware space is thriving. I just got Android 16 on a Nord N30 5G "Avicii" - it's blazingly fast.
Funnily enough, N30 which is close to 6 years old has 12GB of RAM, which is the same as the latest 15R.
I'm still a OnePlus flagship killer fanboy
It's a good piece of hardware, but like most providers their privacy policy was crap and I didn't want to have my metadata constantly fed to a foreign government (seriously, I assume any Chinese-managed, Internet connected software is doing this).
They took away the ability to run custom ROMs around OP12, and Pixel with Graphene is pretty fantastic. OP's only features that I still miss are the more attractive UI and Zen mode.
Thinking about this, I'd rather have my data sent to a foreign government than a domestic government. The foreign government has a lot less potential control over my life.
It looks like my next phone will be back to Motorola or maybe Samsung or Google. I’ve been pretty happy with my OnePlus, and it’s not even the flagship. It’s the Nord N30 5G 128GB. It’s been meeting my needs since it launched.
Skip Samsung, they tend to not honor warranties and are ROM swap resistant.
Google is okay for now (I recently got a Pixel 10, its fine, it can run Graphene).
Next year Motorola flagships will also have official Graphene support.
sad to see but not unexpected. Picked up a OnePlus 15 last winter to screw around with GameHub since the 15 has a lot of ram and the most recent snapdragon 8 elite. It’s such a solidly designed device with a nice flavor of mostly stock android.
software updates have been lacking, which was the writing on the wall. Rip to a real one.
OnePlus basically already went under a few years back.
They merged with Oppo, and ever since its just been rebranded Oppo phones... they're fine, they work, but they're not the magic OnePlus was.
My family and I have been on OnePlus since the beginning, and I just recently got the 15R (which is a beautiful phone, and awesome bang for buck). I've been recycling all my old OnePlus by putting linageOS or AxionOS, and they feel like new again. The alternative Android firmware space is thriving. I just got Android 16 on a Nord N30 5G "Avicii" - it's blazingly fast. Funnily enough, N30 which is close to 6 years old has 12GB of RAM, which is the same as the latest 15R. I'm still a OnePlus flagship killer fanboy
They had subpar software and pretty terrible screens. I think some builds had spyware too sending data to the Chinese
Very happy with my OnePlus 12 screen.
Any source on the spyware (that is different from potential spyware in other phones)?
Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-15/oneplus-o... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48922412)
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How the mighty have fallen.
It's a good piece of hardware, but like most providers their privacy policy was crap and I didn't want to have my metadata constantly fed to a foreign government (seriously, I assume any Chinese-managed, Internet connected software is doing this).
They took away the ability to run custom ROMs around OP12, and Pixel with Graphene is pretty fantastic. OP's only features that I still miss are the more attractive UI and Zen mode.
Thinking about this, I'd rather have my data sent to a foreign government than a domestic government. The foreign government has a lot less potential control over my life.