One of the greatest criticisms that users have on the current smartphones market is that most mobile phones are equal; Gone are the times in which each brand tried to stand out with something special, be it a different design, a striking function or even a groundbreaking marketing campaign.
Today, those things are almost identical in all brandsalthough there are still pioneers willing to break the mold, as nothing is doing. Another company that also differentiated from the rest was OnePlus, although over the years, it has become ‘another brand’; especially after the fusion of their teams with those of OPPO.
Now, OnePlus has just rejects one of the few things that still differentiated her from the rest: The alert slider, or the alert buttonwhich has been available in OnePlus mobiles for generations and that will finally reach its end. The Alert Slider is a physical control on the side of the OnePlus mobiles that allows to change between the silence, vibration mode, the normal, with a simple touch.
The great advantage of this control is that we can use it without unlocking the already blind device; For example, if we are in a meeting, we just have to put our hands in our pocket and put the mobile in silence without anyone knowing. Now, we have to say goodbye to this original control.
Li Jie, president of OnePlus China, has been in charge of giving the news, publishing an image of the alert slider substitute: A shortcut button that will allow access to several functions; If the reader sounds, it is because it is exactly the same concept as the camera control released with the iPhone 16 and that Chinese brands have taken very little to copy. Therefore, we can configure the button to perform different actions, including a “very interesting” in Li Jie’s words.
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Therefore, OnePlus adds to the fashion of the customizable buttons, even at the expense of eliminating one of the things that made it original. Perhaps in anticipation of criticism, Li Jie has tried to reassure users by stating that The new button can also be configured as an alert sliderto change between the different ways; But nobody escapes that the reason why OnePlus adopts this button is because Oppo introduced it in the Find X8 launched last year.
It is expected that The next OnePlus 13t Be the company’s first mobile to use the new button; Therefore, we will have to wait for your official presentation, probably at the end of this month, to check if the change has been worth it.
