Am I the only one who was disappointed somewhat with their OPO? I had loads of build quality issues and software bugs with my OPO that were never addressed. For instance, a horribly unresponsive touchscreen (issue came and went every other week) and I mean to the point where the phone was 99% unusable, my hardware home/back/etc buttons failed, then the touchscreen partially went out (hilariously only the EXACT portion of the screen where the on screen nav bar went, thus finally rendering the phone unusable) the charge port wore out too fast, issues with the audio jack, the list goes on. It was a great phone until I had all these issues but the thing is they started to come about only 3 months after owning it, none of which to my knowledge were caused by me. Just random failures. Not to mention it got more and more unstable with each passing day. I kept it 100% stock too.
I just wanted to ask this before the OP2 comes out just to raise some discussion. I'm just worried that the almost scary dick riding hype around the OPO will drown out the problems that these things have/had. Any thoughts? Do some research before too eagerly throwing your money at these phones, guys.
I agree completely.
I got a OPO shortly after they came out through a friend. I used it for a while and it was decent but not something amazing. For the price it definitely was good but it didn't stand up to the hype. I also had serious issue with it. The screen turned yellow and the touch screen would stop working. It was unstable and crashed all the time. I wasn't too mad though because I sold it for more than I paid for it because of the hype/demand at the time. Sold my invites too.
Hopefully the OP2 will be better but I'm not gonna get hyped over it. Amazed they are still using that asinine invite system after the disaster the last one was. Blah blah it was so they could keep up with inventory. No. It wasn't. It was a cynical marketing strategy to build up the phone as exclusive and amazing. They still couldn't keep up with the inventory. By the time the phone was in widespread use it was outdated. I'm sure the same thing will happen here.
Also I don't care what people say about how easy it is to get an invite. I don't want to jump through hoops just for the privilege of spending money no matter how small they are. You know what is even easier than getting an invite? Just buying the thing in the first place.
I'm remaining optimistic but the hype around these phones, and all phones in general for that matter, is ridiculous.
To me it's crazy how this marketing strategy worked. I never saw it like that though, I just wanted a relatively cheap phone with good specs. However after I got it people always referred to it as "that exclusive thing." Which I didn't like actually. Sure it was cool having that, but people also assumed that I actually gave a damn about if other people owned the same phone as me.