If you compare how OxygenOS felt on a OnePlus One to how it feels on a OnePlus 12, you’d swear these are phones from different brands. Back then, OxygenOS was the clean, fast alternative to bloated skins from Samsung and Huawei. Today, a new OxygenOS update is sparking yet another round of “OnePlus has lost […]
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OnePlus 13’s first update brings Gemini AI boost
I’ve been carrying the OnePlus 13 as my main phone for the last week, and the first big Android update landed midway through testing. Normally, early updates are boring stability patches. This one is slightly different: OnePlus is pushing on-device Google Gemini AI right out of the gate, plus the usual batch of camera and […]
OnePlus 11R joins Android 15 rollout, finally
Google says over 3 billion devices run Android, yet only a tiny slice is already on Android 15. For once, the OnePlus 11R is in that early slice, and that’s a big deal for a phone that launched as a 2023 “flagship killer” and usually sits one rung below the brand’s true flagships. This Android […]
OnePlus Pad Black Friday deal has a big software catch
Everyone is calling the OnePlus Pad Black Friday discount a must‑buy, but I’m still not sold on this tablet’s software story. Yes, $300 for a sleek metal slab with a 144Hz LCD and MediaTek Dimensity 9000 sounds fantastic on paper. However, when you look past the specs and into the update history and tablet UI […]