I have a OnePlus 13. Best hardware ever. Running lineage with microg + magisk and use nix on top of termux to install stuff using sudo, including AI harnesses - it's my portable AI workstation now.
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I just got a new phone a month ago. I wanted a Pixel so I could run GrapheneOS. After researching the hardware I ended up with a OnePlus 13. Google's hardware is far behind, buggy, and overpriced.
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The cameras on the Pro versions used to be so good, then starting around one-plus 9 they really went downhill. I have photos in my archive from my OP8 Pro that look much better than those taken with the OP13. Coinciding with Samsung nerfing the Ultra (aside from the bloatware) - it's not looking like a great landscape for Android Phones.
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I worked for OnePlus a few years ago, managing its Amazon account. The culture leaned heavily toward 996: 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week. I was there during a particularly tumultuous period, and by that point a lot of the staffing had already been hollowed out. That said, the OnePlus 11, 12, 13, and 15 are great phones. The 13 and 15 in particular have insane battery life. I have never managed to drain either one to zero in a single day. As far as I know, OnePlus and Motorola are also the only major companies selling phones with silicon-carbon batteries in the United States. It is ridiculous that Samsung and Apple still have not adopted them. One of my biggest frustrations at OnePlus was how much of the internal tooling remained in Chinese or used poor English translations. Most of the management was also based in China and often did not seem to understand the US market very well. Probably the most ridiculous example was an internal invoice or payment-submission portal. It was awful to use, but the terminology was even stranger. A submission apparently needed to be “signed” and then “sealed.” I never asked anyone what the original Chinese term was, but I assumed it referred to the use of a Chinese name chop or company seal. Name chops are stone stamps bearing a person’s or company’s name that are pressed into ink and applied to documents as a form of authorization. It was a small thing, but it captured the broader problem pretty well: internal processes designed around Chi…
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This is written on a OnePlus 13 with a slider running lineage os. Amazing phone.
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Ethernet tethering with a USB-C adapter from my OnePlus 13 saved my ass last weekend as I had to restore a Proxmox backup of my OPNSense VM from a remote PBS, and obviously without it I didn't have normal internet connection at home. Fantastic stuff. I wasn't sure if I'd have to set a static IP on my proxmox box in a predefined subnet, but nope Android spins up a DHCP server and everything is basically plug-n-play
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Is this available outside of Pixels? I still can't find it on my OnePlus 13 running Android 16 with Jan security updates
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Interesting, it seems just as smooth on my OnePlus 13. As an app developer I don't see how the Material 3 Expressive UI would cause reduced performance. My only guess is poor usage of the API by developers.
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Honestly the OnePlus 13 is looking better than either the iPhone or Samsungs to me. It’s a great time to be in the market for a new smartphone!