Earlier this week OnePlus confirmed the long-standing rumors that it was shutting down operations in multiple regions around the world — instead focusing all its efforts on the Chinese and Indian markets. In effect, contrary to the company's long-standing motto, OnePlus had decided to settle. Or, at the very least, it has in the U.S., U.K. and Europe.
Naturally this news has led to lamentation from a lot of dedicated OnePlus fans online, including those people who eventually gave up on the brand for their own personal reasons. I count myself among the latter group, and still have fond memories of the first OnePlus phone I used every day: 2018's OnePlus 6. But as much as I loved the OnePlus 6, and its rear-mounted physical fingerprint scanner, that's not the phone I'm here to talk about.
