OnePlus 2 Sells 30,000 Units in China in 64 Seconds

By Dondi Tiples, Christian Post Contributor Tuesday, August 04, 2015

A record of 30,000 OnePlus Two smartphones were sold 64 seconds after the new handset was declared available on its Chinese website.

OnePlus' Chinese online store sold out 30,000 of its OnePlus Two new flagship handsets after the unit was advertised for sale on the site.

Last month, OnePlus held the world's first ever virtual reality product launch for the OnePlus Two, using a specially designed OnePlus Cardboard VR headset.

While 30,000 units may not be along the same levels of demand of an Apple or Samsung product, it still presents an impressive showing in a country where Huawei and Xiaomi hold sway.

The rapid-fire sale of the OnePlus Two appears to follow the trend of its predecessor, the OnePlus One which sold over 1 million units in 2014. The Chinese smartphone manufacturer is said to have prepared between three to five million OnePlus 2 handsets for 2015, with round two of sales to begin on August 11 for US, Canada, India, and Europe.

Pegged at a low-range price point of $329, the OnePlus Two is housed in a magnesium and aluminum alloy frame. A dual-SIM smartphone, it offers a reversible USB Type-C plug patented by OnePlus, and several StyleSwap Cover options.

Featuring a 5.5-inch in-cell LCD HD display with a 1080x1920 resolution, OnePlus' new flagship carries the new OxygenOS version 2.0, which gives the phone a stable performance and wide customizations.

Powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor, the OnePlus Two runs on a 3,300mAh battery, offers 4GB of RAM, and 16GB or 64GB internal memory options.

The smartphone has a 13MP main camera featuring larger 1.3micron pixel sensors, a Super Resolution Mode, a built-in camera app with a time-lapse feature, and a slow motion video mode that can capture up to 120 frames-per-second.