OnePlus launches the OnePlus X

OnePlus launched the OnePlus X in India recently. It’s the company’s cheapest phone available till date and is priced at ?16, 999. The OnePlus X has been launched in 2 variants, namely the OnePlus X onyx and the OnePlus X ceramic.

As of the specifications are concerned the OnePlus X sports a 5 inch Full HD AMOLED display with corning gorilla glass 3 protection. Under the hood is a Snapdragon 801 processor, chipset couple with 3 GB of RAM and 16 GB of internal storage, but this time the OnePlus X houses a hybrid slot, which can either be used as a SIM or a micro SD slot. So basically one can either use it as a dual SIM phone with only 16 GB of storage or a single SIM phone with an expandable storage of up to 128 GB using a SD card.

For the shutterbugs the OnePlus X houses a 13 MP ISOCELL camera at the back with Phase Detection Auto Focus. And at the front to click selfies is a 8 MP f/2.4 sensor.

Like the OnePlus two the OnePlus X too has a physical notification slider somewhat like the iPhone, which lets the user decide which notifications to allow. Connectivity-wise the phone has 4G LTE, WiFi, Bluetooth and GPS along with the rest of common options. It runs on oxygen OS, which is based on android 5.1.1

The OnePlus X also includes a FM Radio, and a 2,525mAh battery with Quick Charge 2.0 support. Both the models are exclusive to Amazon and will be sold via the invite system initially which will be banished after a month in favor of weekly open sales. The OnePlus X only will be available from November 5 while the limited edition OnePlus X ceramic will be available 24^th November onwards. The OnePlus X ceramic is a limited edition and only 10,000 pieces will be available.

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In technology we trust. God made man and man created technology thereby proving technology was indeed created by the divine and so we shall always keep it in high regards and staying true to the statement Yash stays in tech all through the day and at night in his dreams. An Avid Apple FanBoy and an Android loyalist a perfect oxymoron, tries to live his life in the simplest of ways possible in the most complex of gadgets. A Writer at Soul, An Entrepreneur at mind and an Avid Techie at Heart.