The popular OnePlus One. smartphone will be made
available via unboxed and refurbished
device provider Overcart on Wednesday a
Rs. 16,999 for the 64GB Sandstone Blac
variant in its unboxed form. To put that
in perspective, the retail unit is priced at
Rs. 21,999.
The unboxed OnePlus One smartphones,
specified as seal-opened but otherwise
unused units, will come with six-month
warranty from OnePlus. Overcart says
that while the sale is open to all,
customers are encouraged to sign up for
notifications leading up to the sale at
2pm on Wednesday. No details about th
16GB Silk White or refurbished OnePlus
One units being sold on the site in the
future were revealed.
Notably, OnePlus had back in April
announced that the OnePlus One
smartphone will be available without
invites across the globe.
Back in January, Overcart had
collaborated with Xiaomi to sell its
unboxed and refurbished devices online,
starting with the Redmi 1S and the Red
Note 4G.
Apart from Overcart, GreenDust is anothe
provider of unboxed and refurbished
smartphones in India. It too has
collaborated with Xiaomi in the past to
offer unboxed and refurbished Redmi 1S
units.
Earlier this month, Chinese smartphone
manufacturer OnePlus announced that a
legal proceedings with Micromax in Indi
had been resolved and cases withdrawn
through mutual consent. The firm
emphasised the resolution would mean
that OnePlus One smartphone users in
India will continue to receive Cyanogen
OS OTA (over-the-air) updates the same
as other markets.
The One smartphone, launched in India
in December, sports a 5.5-inch IPS LCD
display with a 1080x1920 pixel
resolution and offers a pixel density of
401ppi. The display boasts Corning
Gorilla Glass 3 protection. It comes with
3GB of RAM and is powered by the quad
core Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 clocke
at 2.5GHz with Adreno 330 GPU.
Unfortunately, the OnePlus One does not
support expandable storage.
The One sports a 13-megapixel rear
IMX214 sensor with six lenses and f/2.0
aperture that boasts quick shutter speed
of only 0.3-seconds, according to
OnePlus. It also comes with a 5-
megapixel front-facing camera.
Connectivity options on the OnePlus One
include 4G LTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/
ac, Bluetooth 4.0, and NFC functionality.
It features a 3100mAh non-removable
battery.
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