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OnePlus will launch the OnePlus 3 on June 14th — and this time, you won’t need a special invitation code to buy one.<\/p>\n
Beginning with the OnePlus One and continuing with the OnePlus 2 and OnePlus X, you needed to track down an invite code for the privilege of exchanging some of your money for a (admittedly good value) smartphone. It made sense for OnePlus — it built hype among Android users and allowed them to dish out their limited stock very efficiently — but it also engendered annoyance among those that weren’t able to locate a code in time.<\/p>\n
Here’s OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei talking to\u00a0Wired<\/em> about the move:<\/p>\n “In year three it\u2019s really hard to keep asking people to understand that you\u2019re a young company and still trying to understand how to handle a supply chain. It\u2019s about time that we stopped giving ourselves excuses.”<\/p>\n For the OnePlus 3 launch, the invite code system is going away entirely; you’ll just turn up at the website, punch in your details and get a phone in the mail. There’s still one wrinkle though — if you have a VR headset, like the one that OnePlus sent out for free last month to some users, you’ll be able to order a OnePlus 3 in the Loop VR app two hours ahead of everyone else.<\/p>\n OnePlus are also changing their tactics for their back catalogue of smartphones, offering the OnePlus One, OnePlus 2 and OnePlus X on Amazon.co.uk (and potentially other retailers too). We should expect this to happen for the OnePlus 3 eventually too, so if you’d prefer Amazon’s (generally stellar) support, that will be an option too.<\/p>\n