The OnePlus 2 features a revamped design meant to put it at the top with the rest of its flagship competitors.
The handset incorporates an aluminum-magnesium alloychassis, with the volume and power keys along with the new notifications control switch featuring a polished stainless steelaccent and with the rear of the phone accompanied with a textured Sandstone Black plastic back cover.[18][19] User also have the choice to customize back covers with choices of Kevlar or assorted wood offerings including bamboo, black apricot, androsewood.[18]
Compared to its predecessor the phone is 1 mm shrunken height and width-wise but 8% thicker and heavier due in part to its larger 3, 300 mAh battery.[20] The OnePlus 2 and its predecessor, the OnePlus One, have comparable displays, each 5.5 LCD 1920 x 1080 full HD resolution screens, with CorningGorilla Glass protection. New to the OnePlus 2 is its fingerprint sensor which can optionally serve as a capacitive home button, along with back and multitasking navigation keys, but they can be disabled in favor of customizable navigation soft keys rendered on-screen.[21]
There are two versions of the OnePlus 2. The White Basic version features 16 GB internal storage, and 3 GB LPDDR4 RAM. The Sandstone Black Premium version has 64 GB internal storage with 4 GB LPDDR4 RAM.[22]The handset is powered by the QualcommSnapdragon 810 v2.1 64-bit octa-core chip purposefully underclocked to 1.8 GHz to avoid any overheating issues.[23] The system on chip also includes an Adreno 430 graphics processor clocked at 630 MHz.[24]
For its rear-facing camera, the OnePlus 2 utilizes an OmniVision OV13860 13-megapixelimage sensor with features including a 1/2.6-inch sensor size, f/2.0 aperture, [25] laser autofocus, [26] optical image stabilization, dual tone LED flash, 4K and slow motion 720pvideo recording ability.