News & Reviews:   OnePlus 3T

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Brightstar Malaysia had just announced that the OnePlus 3T will be officially available in Malaysia from March 22 onwards on Lazada as well as authorised retailers for RM2229. It will be available in Gun Metal and Soft Gold in 64GB storage variant. On the other hand, OnePlus has also announced an incremental roll-out of OxygenOS 4.1.0 for both the OnePlus 3 and 3T. As usual, it includes miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes, as well as some added new features.

We recently reported that the OnePlus 3T was spotted in the SIRIM database. It is now finally available for pre-orders. These are official International A3003 models distributed by Brightstar Malaysia that comes with a full 1-year local warranty.

Well, it looks like the OnePlus 3T had been spotted on the SIRIM database, registered to local distributor, Brightstar. While the OnePlus 3T is no longer the latest device around, it is the slightly upgraded sequel to the original OnePlus 3 (which we reviewed here) that was launched in Malaysia back in August 2016. Though it is no secret that you can buy imported sets of the OnePlus 3T from some of the bigger local retailers, it sure is nice to finally have an option to purchase it officially.

Recently, a new set of vulnerabilities was discovered by Roee Hay, a security researcher. He found out that, for the OnePlus 3 as well as the OnePlus 3T, from OxygenOS 3.2 up to 4.0.1, it contains a vulnerability that, by using two native fastboot commands, allows anyone to disable the verified boot feature without actually unlocking the bootloader with the user-accessible command. This meant that a malicious code could be run without even resetting the user data!

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While there wasn't any clear big event or device this week, the sheer number of announcements was huge with Vivo announcing their V5 (set for an official announcement in Malaysia next week) along with their X9, X9 Plus and XPlay 5 devices. The more powerful OnePlus 3T got announced rather quietly alongside the downgraded Huawei Mate 9 Lite while Huawei also announced the Huawei Mate 9 Pro for China. Check out the rest in the article.

As expected, the new OnePlus 3T has been launched officially, with minimal differences on the exterior – but all changes are under the skin.

Just this early morning, OnePlus released a short video teaser on their Twitter account revealing a new event on 15 November 2016 at 1PM EST. The device to be revealed is still unknown, but it could be called the OnePlus 3T according to rumours, and we also do know that it will carry a Snapdragon 821 processor just as they previously stated.

An unlikely source for news on the latest model from OnePlus, Qualcomm tweeted out that a new model from the company will be featuring their latest SoC, the Snapdragon 821.