The OnePlus X might be the best $250 phone ever!

The OnePlus X is a $250 device with the look and specs of if not an iPhone or Galaxy S device, something on the very next rung. It’s got 3GB of RAM, a 5-inch, 1080p AMOLED display, and a 13MP f/2.2 rear camera and an 8 MP front-facing shooter. It’s coomparable to Google’s shiny, new, $380 Nexus 5X, which itself is an aggressive value play. It sports a Snapdragon 801 processor with 2.3 GHz Quadcore-CPUs and 16GB of storage, somewhat balanced out by expandable microSD storage, a near-extinct smartphone feature in 2015. It also runs OxygenOS, an operating that looks and feels like Google’s version of Android (it even uses Google apps) but is built by OnePlus from the ground up, which isn’t so much good or bad but interesting.

It is powered by a non-removable Li-Po 2525 mAh battery.
All of this would make the OnePlus X a steal, even if it were housed in a plastic brick body. It’s not. The OnePlus X is a looker. Its build quality looks like it could have come straight out of Cupertino, though not in an imitative way. It has a glass backplate, for heaven’s sake.