Oneplus is revealing its flagship ‘2’ smartphone on the 27th of July 2015. Quite a few details about the new phone are out, including the Snapdragon 810 chipset and a Type C cable. You can read our detailed story on all the known specs and features of the OnePlus 2 here.
Now, in another important revelation, the company’s flagship has allegedly been leaked in some spy images at PhoneArena.com. The leaked images show a phone featuring a metal chassis with a wooden back panel. The OnePlus 2 is almost certain to have a full metal chassis as OnePlus CEO Liu Zuohu (aka Pete Lau) teased the OnePlus 2 smartphone to his followers asking, “How to define “full metal”?”
On top of the wooden panel, you have an aluminium-finish strip housing the camera with another round sensor, expected to be a fingerprint scanner. The LED flash is placed on the wooden panel itself on the side of the strip housing the camera and the scanner.
There’s another image of the phone showing an edge-to-edge horizontal display. The space left for physical controls and chassis on either vertical ends seems to be minimal too.
The images have been leaked for a couple of days now. However, what no one seems to have noticed are the markings on the cutting mat over which the phone rests. There is an A2 cutting mat under the phone, and those marking cannot be in any other unit but centimetres.
Now the baffling part about these leaked images is the difference in the size of the phone in the two images. The phone in the image showing its back panel measures roughly 18 cm in length, and about 8 cm in width going by the markings on the mat. On the other hand, the phone showing its screen measures roughly 14.5 cm in length and 8 cm in width.
This is bewildering, as the phone’s screen size will cross the 7 inch mark, and by a fair margin if we use the 18 cm length for calculations. It’s not possible for an everyday phone to have that sort of a size, unless OnePlus is trying to create a new segment of phones all together and planning to present the OnePlus 2 in two sizes – a 5.7 inch large-screen version and a monster-faced mega-phablet with screen in excess of 7 inches. We don’t really believe that the latter can be true.
So keeping a length of about 14.5cm in mind, and taking out 2 cm from the top and bottom for the chassis and the part which isn’t the screen, we are left with 12.5cm. The edge to edge screen doesn’t warrant taking out much from the 8cm width, so we have taken into account a 7.6 cm width for the screen.
Now, applying the simple Pythagoras theorem where the hypotenuse is the root of the summation of the squares of the perpendicular and base we get the screen size value as 14.62 cm. This translates to 5.75 inches, which is bigger than the OnePlus One’s 5.5 inches, but still comparable to the Galaxy Note 4’s 5.7 inch screen. We may also have committed some minor errors in our calculations and assumptions, so taking out another 0.5 inches, we are left with a screen size which cannot be much less than 5.7 inches. If those leaked images are really those of the upcoming OnePlus 2 that is.
Please note, though, that all these calculations are based on the alleged leaked images of the OnePlus 2, which may not be the images of the said phone at all.
Do we make sense with those calculations? Also, can you think of some valid explanation for that ultra large 18 inch length smart phones in one of these images? Do share your views on one of our social channels. We are eagerly listening.
