Curiously Affordable OnePlus One Smartphone Gets A Teardown
The OnePlus One is a snappy-looking, well-spec’d, heavily-teased smartphone whose defining characteristic is a surprisingly low price tag of just $350. This, when most high-end smartphones can cost twice that.
The folks at iFixit tore down the device to see what’s inside and how repairable it is (or isn’t). iFixit gave the OnePlus One a modest score of 5 out of 10 due primarily to a harder than necessary to remove battery and fused LCD and digitizer glass, but otherwise a little patience got the device apart.
The device has the same camera modules as the Project Tango smartphone. The rear 13MP camera features a Sony Exmor IMX 214 CMOS sensor, and the 3GB of RAM is made by Samsung. Toshiba makes the 64GB of eMMC storage, the wireless chip is a Qualcomm WCN3680, and the touchscreen controller is made by Synaptics.
The phone runs a custom version of Android created by CyanogenMod, and there’s a 5.5-inch (1920x1080) display. The device runs a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 (2.5GHz) processor.
We’ll look forward to seeing how this interesting handset performs.
The folks at iFixit tore down the device to see what’s inside and how repairable it is (or isn’t). iFixit gave the OnePlus One a modest score of 5 out of 10 due primarily to a harder than necessary to remove battery and fused LCD and digitizer glass, but otherwise a little patience got the device apart.
The device has the same camera modules as the Project Tango smartphone. The rear 13MP camera features a Sony Exmor IMX 214 CMOS sensor, and the 3GB of RAM is made by Samsung. Toshiba makes the 64GB of eMMC storage, the wireless chip is a Qualcomm WCN3680, and the touchscreen controller is made by Synaptics.
The phone runs a custom version of Android created by CyanogenMod, and there’s a 5.5-inch (1920x1080) display. The device runs a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 (2.5GHz) processor.
We’ll look forward to seeing how this interesting handset performs.
