We rarely get to hear how many of one smartphone is sold by any one manufacturer (unless of course they are yelling it from the top of a mountain), but it seems OnePlus‘ Carl Pei has been very generous in giving us an insight into the sales of his young company. According to Pei, OnePlus sold 1.5 million OnePlus Ones in the past year, with 1 million of those coming in the first 6 months. That sounds almost lame compared to the 10 million sold in one month stories we often hear, but when you remember that the OnePlus One was OnePlus’ first device, you get a better feeling of what that really means. Factor in a much smaller marketing budget and almost zero brand recognition, and the feat almost seems awesome.
Of course, pundits will question whether it would have been possible for even more OnePlus Ones to have been sold given the infamous invite system that OnePlus used to limit the availability of the device, but it is what it is and OnePlus is poised to launch its second, highly anticipated handset, the OnePlus 2. With such a glowing performance in its first year, we can only expect bigger and better things from the Chinese manufacturer in the future.
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Source: Wall Street Journal via Phandroid
