CEO says fans will be pleased with OnePlus 5T price

OnePlus CEO Pete Lau tweeted a vague message about the cost of the upcoming OnePlus 5T and co-founder Carl Pei retweeted it.
Cost of smartphone components is rising, but phones are also getting better. OnePlus users will appreciate what's coming.
— Pete Lau (@petelau2007) November 8, 2017
Earlier, unnamed sources claimed that the 5T will cost the same as the 5. That’s €500 for the 64GB model and €560 for the 128GB one.
However, this message about the rising cost of components doesn’t quite sound like “the phone will cost the same”. Let’s look at a quick price history of the OnePlus phones (for the base storage):
OnePlus One | €270 (increased to €300) |
OnePlus 2 | €340 |
OnePlus 3 | €400 |
OnePlus 3T | €440 |
OnePlus 5 | €500 |
The trend seems pretty clear, but perhaps the OnePlus 5T will surprise us. Either way, as Pete Lau points out, the new model will have improvements over the OnePlus 5, starting with an 18:9 screen and an upgraded camera (that’s what we’ve gleaned from rumors anyway).
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Reader comments
- Anonymous
- 17 Nov 2017
- mKJ
I'm not. The most expensive OnePlus phone to date!
- AnonD-441601
- 14 Nov 2017
- SH3
Yes and you forget Samsung put their fingers in everything. From stupid toothbrush into things big as 100 inch TV. They produce a lot and then have difficualities to sell. And as a compensation they sells their garbage for much more than its ...
- ein
- 14 Nov 2017
- wHR
Samsung is expensive because of marketing, after sales and retail. It's not just the phone itself.