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OnePlus will ditch Alert Slider across 'all' its new smartphones alongside major AI push (9to5google.com)
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[-] [email protected] 52 points 3 days ago

Let's get rid of a feature that positively differentiated our product and load it up with AI slop instead. It's a guaranteed winning strategy! Nothing could possibly go wrong!

[-] [email protected] 41 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

So fucking dumb.

Everybody loved OnePlus's alert slider. Nobody wants fucking Bixby button mk2

[-] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago

Booooooooh

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

When users find information that they wish to retain – such as schedules, event details, reservations, or listings – they can capture it by pressing the Plus Key or swiping up with three fingers. AI Plus Mind intelligently saves the relevant on-screen content to a dedicated Mind Space, helping users streamline their experience by capturing precisely what’s needed and keeping it organized in one accessible location.

So...it's a screenshot shortcut?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Looks like this is my last OnePlus ):

[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

now I get why they split and we have Nothing phones as a result

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Nothing isn't that much better. Their latest Nothing 3A phones have a dedicated AI button and no alert slider

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Who split?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Carl Pei and Pete Lau. They both co-founded OnePlus, Carl Pei later founded Nothing.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

what I heard was that 2 partners started OnePlus but one of them split and started the competing Nothing phone company

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

OnePlus fucking sucks anyway. I've had multiple and they are buggy as fuck. They do the same forced apps and shit that I loathe.

IMO the only real option is a phone straight from Google and then you can more easily put a custom ROM than really anything else.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

They peaked with the OnePlus 7 pro. Loved the pop up camera to provide a true full screen experience without pinhole or notches. Beautiful design.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

My OnePlus 7 is still in use. It constantly has issues. There's some sort of GPU driver issue because sometimes the screen will turn to static

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Looks like a piet program

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I loved my 7t, it was the best phone I'd ever had, especially when it was still on oxygen os 10. Every major os update it got since then felt like a downgrade though, unfortunately. Now I have an 8t, which is fine and I'll probably keep it until it dies, but I don't think I'm going to get another OnePlus. Any androids that have that old OnePlus feel? I remember I used to like Moto's too, are they any good nowadays?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I don't think there is one that has the clean old OnePlus feel. I still liked them until the custom ROM support died out for follow up devices to keep it going beyond the official OS support, since the hardware was solid.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

so glad I went with fairphone over those pickle dicks.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I'm waiting for the Fairphone 6 I cannot justify buying anything else honestly...

[-] [email protected] -1 points 3 days ago

eerp

this post was submitted on 31 May 2025
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