OnePlus’ Carl Pei confirms another smartphone coming this year

And speaking during an AMA or Ask-me-Anything session on Reddit, the co-founder of the company, Carl Pei has mentioned that the company will be releasing a new device this year before Christmas.

While the OnePlus 2 is yet to available through the official invites, Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus is in plans to launch a new smartphone.

It may or may not be (higher spec’d than the OnePlus 2). The OnePlus co-founder wants us to keep guessing for now, before the company eventually starts dropping in Easter eggs like it did with the OnePlus 2. He said he thinks the “entire issue of NFC is overblown” and that “very few people are using” it. Because of that, they cut it out – “it’s as simple as that”. It (NFC) is going to gain widespread adoption in stores 12-18 months from now.

In conversation with USA Today, Pei said the new smartphone is scheduled to release by December. We have some internal targets of 3-5 million (sales) for this year, but it’s not really important if we reach it or not.

He said, “There’s going to be a second phone this year, before the end of the year”.

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Pei also revealed that OnePlus was working on a fitness tracker, but scrapped it to stay focused on making phones. “We started asking ourselves ‘why?’ The conclusion was no one else cared about the product as much as Apple does”.

The new OnePlus smartphone would be launched as early as this Christmas. That’s fine – we’ll work hard to make each iteration better than the last. But more than achieving that goal, Pei said they are interested in what consumers think of their products.