OnePlus finished its best year yet by breaking into the top five smartphone companies in the U. S. in terms of market share in the $500-plus category. Spurred on by sales of the excellent OnePlus 6 and 6T, alongside a partnership with T-Mobile, and fresh support for Verizon, OnePlus is riding high.
Everyone loves a bargain, and OnePlus has been turning out phones with high-end specs at attractive prices for years now. Why pay $1,000 for a flagship when you can snag something similar at half the price? It seems a lot of people have been warming to OnePlus, with analyst firm IDC reporting that the Chinese manufacturer shipped enough phones in the fourth quarter of 2018 to snag a top-five position in the U. S. in terms of market share for smartphones costing more than $500.
We’re not surprised, as we named OnePlus as the big winner in our review of the year and the OnePlus 6T sits proudly atop our best cheap phones roundup, just like the OnePlus 6 before it. The firm has come a very long way since its first release.
