Two Days With a OnePlus One

[G+_Ian Rumbles]

Originally shared by Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield (Aminorjourney)

 

Two Days With a OnePlus One

 

So a few days ago, Kate Gordon-Bloomfield and I recieved our shiny new OnePlus One phones. In doing so, we said goodbye to the iPhones we'd religiously updated for the past five years or so every few years. 

 

Our iPhone 5s -- which we'd both purchased outright -- had started to let us down with dropped calls and really atrocious call quality. We'd got fed up of the locked down Apple philosophy. We'd got fed up with things not working quite as well as they did in Steve Jobs' day. (Sorry Tim Cook)

 

Anyway. We've got two 64GB iPhone 5s phones in great condition to sell...

 

On Saturday, the new phones arrived and we happily ripped open the very plain, but very easy packaging. Inside each box, a 64 GB OnePlus One, running Cyanogenmod 11 and Android 4.4 KitKat. 

 

So far, so good. (If you don't know what a OnePlus One is, you should head here: 

 

The specs are good. The Price is decent. And four of our friends already have one. And we trust our friend's judgement. (I'm looking at you, Katherine Walton-Elliott and Chris Kurtz among others!)

 

First order for me was rooting my phone, so I could circumvent our home DNS server set up to try and keep our kids from going crazy on the Internets. 

 

On the OnePlus? That took me about twenty minutes. (It took longer to install the Android tools and ADB tools on my mac). 

 

With the phone rooted, I set about converting all my Apple Stuff to Google. Since I already use GMail for most stuff, that was easy. 

 

Contacts? For the past decade, Apple has consistently F**ked up my contact list. It invented new people by taking the first name of one person and the last name of another, combining it with a phone number from a third person. 

 

On importing into Google, I was blown away how easy the merging functionality was. So far, I've got a wayward list of 2.5k contacts (many apple-created duplicates) to 700. By the end of the week, I hope to have it down to a few hundred. 

 

Calendar imports? That was easy too. We've created a single account for purchasing Google Apps. It also serves as a family calendar. It's quick. It works. And I can access it anywhere, including Apple devices. 

 

So far, so good.  

 

I'll give you more as I have it, but so far I'm pretty impressed. 

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