OnePlus India has announced that it will be holding another open sale for the
OnePlus 2 on Tuesday, starting 8am IST at Amazon India.
The announcement follows the company's first open sale for the
OnePlus 2 on Monday, which was from 12pm to 1pm IST on Amazon India. The company has not detailed when the Tuesday open sale will end, and as with the first sale, has not mentioned how many units will be made available.
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The company in its announcement blog
post said the first open sale on Monday had a fantastic reception, but did not reveal how many units were sold.
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Since its
launch in July, the OnePlus 2 has been hard to procure, with the invites necessary to purchase the phone in short supply. The company has come under quite a bit a flak for the lack of availability, especially after
promises to the ensure invite mechanism would be more widely inclusive compared to the
OnePlus One, and that more units will be on offer for consumers across the world.
Running
OxygenOS 2.1.0 based on Android 5.1, the 64GB OnePlus 2 has been priced at Rs. 24,999. OnePlus 2 will feature a 5.5-inch in-cell display with a full-HD (1080x1920 pixel) resolution and 1500:1 contrast ratio. It is powered by a 64-bit octa-core Snapdragon 810 v2.1 SoC clocked at 1.8GHz and coupled with an Adreno 430 GPU alongside 4GB of LPDDR4 RAM and 64GB internal storage.A 16GB OnePlus 2 with 3GB of LPDDR4 RAM will be made available later this year at Rs. 22,999.
The OnePlus 2 sports dual 4G Nano-SIM cards (dual-SIM dual standby), as well as USB Type-C connectivity (with the cable reversible at both ends). It bears a 13-megapixel rear camera with a 1.3-micron sensor, laser autofocus, dual-LED flash, f/2.0 aperture, 4K video recording, RAW image support, and OIS, apart from a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. It runs on a 3300mAh battery, and has a fingerprint sensor that can store up to 5 prints and unlock in under 0.5 seconds. It weighs 175 grams.