Today is the day that the elusive flagship phone – the OnePlus One – has finally been made available to the subcontinent of India. The OnePlus One is famous for its low price despite the high-end specs, but it is also famously difficult to get your hands on one. The Indian market is set to be the next step for OP, as it partners with Amazon India to distribute the device.
They’ve been teasing it for a while now, but OP has finally and officially landed in India. The OnePlus One smartphone can now be purchased through Amazon India, albeit the terribly annoying invite system that the company used is still present. Hopefully the partnership with Amazon will mean that it will get easier for OnePlus One fans in India to purchase the device rather than make it more difficult. Check out the Amazon page for the phone here.
The OnePlus One 64GB model will be launching in India for INR 21,999, or a little over USD$350, which is roughly the same cost as it was sold before. The launch event was graced by Pete Lau, the founder and CEO of OnePlus, who sold the phone to an already adoring public. Also present was Amit Agarwal, Country Manager of Amazon India, and Vikas Agarwal, General Manager of OnePlus India.
So the move to India is finally done for OnePlus. This is in the wake of its public breakup with OS provider CyanogenMod. The OnePlus One is still coming with CM’s tweaked Android OS out of the box, but we wonder how long that will last.
SOURCE: OnePlus
