TechNow: More OnePlus One leaks arrive

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Up there on the left is how the OnePlus One might just look from the rear. Sources describe the rendering as representative of early prototypes, though with the possibility that the design may carry through to the final product. They do note that the large Never Settle text was not present on said prototype, so that may be here more for promotional purposes than to actually reflect what we’ll see on the phone itself.

We also run into some images supposed to depict the OnePlus One’s motherboard. There’s what appears to be a tiny OnePlus One logo etched onto the RF shield. This resolution doesn’t let us get close enough to make out the details on any ICs (what few aren’t under the shielding), but considering what OnePlus has already revealed, it’s not like we had many questions about the phone’s silicon, anyway

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One thing that catches our eye straight away is that the curve at the top edge of this component appears a bit more rounded than the image from that prototype render. At least, that’s assuming that the orientation is the same here, and we’re not actually looking at the panel upside-down; with part of it cropped out, and no obvious sign of a front-facer/prox sensor, we could well be seeing what’s actually the bottom edge here – which at least seemed slightly more curved on the render.

The internal shot making up the middle of this triptych doesn’t offer much insight, but we do pick up on something new from this additional mobo shot: while before we could see that OnePlus One logo clearly enough, the text on the opposite corner wasn’t quite readable at the resolution in which our pics were available. Here, we finally see it spell out “Developed by ONEPLUS.”