I have been partial of the One Plus phones since my difficulty before a decade ago, and since then, I have a dedicated place in my heart by volatility in company devices.
Most of the time, I have tried to change things I cannot accept and I struggle to accept what I can’t change. This applies to both major hardware and software maintenance. In fact, One Plus rarely took a memorandum and usually delivered to both fronts, which is why the first 10 list of my most favorite phones of my most -time phones contains especially strong OnePlus.
Nevertheless, with One Plus 15, a beautiful big example is ready to shift, which is why I’m not really ready to accept it so easily.
The OnePlus is probably hitting the famous 3 -color colorball, also known as alert slider.
Instead, we are definitely getting a custom button: a classic case of fixing what is not broken.
Best One Plus feature death
During 2025, I used the OnePlus 13 and the OPPO to X8 Pro, and both were much more perfect in most ways than their Android peers, even more when you determine the most competitive pricing of international models. Both had signed colors, and everything was fine and dandy.
I could easily turn the switch easily to change between silence, vibration, and color methods on any phone, even no need to extract the phone from my pocket. Hepatic feedback indicated which mode is active.
I, despite its Chinese room, wanted to use OPPO Find X8 ultra, which introduced many obstacles to regular use of daily use. Inspired by the Apple’s Action button, he brought a custom shortcut button on the side. You can map different features, which are somewhat limited to their scope. For example, you can’t make a custom shortcut map, you can only choose between the following limited choices.
This button is in position where the 3way switch should usually sit immediately. Without an outer button, it felt unnatural to handle the OnePlus/Oppo device that I was watching from the north of a decade.
Yes, you can customize this shortcut button, and change the RNG methods is one of the features available. But it just turns these methods into a sequence, so you can’t really be completely silent with a simple flick of the button from the mode of ringing. You have to put this new button longer and count what mood you have now enabled. This standard hardware is absolutely unnatural and unnatural than the color switch.
Provided that One Plus is on the path of his parents’ company and adopts this shortcut button at different times, I cannot imagine that the experience with the next One Plus 15 will be very different.
It does not feel the same, and you can’t agree to me otherwise.
A clear solution to alert slider “problem”
What are the reasons for removing the color switch? The company is willing to separate some of its identity because: one -plus CEO Pet Lao Explosion said:
“… Alert slider is a hardware switch. His function is closed to his physical position, meaning that it cannot be programmed or extended without losing his simplicity” – Pat Plus CEO
Correct custom is important, and you can’t really do much with the standard color switch, with changing color methods.
But the solution has been clear to anyone who lacks critical thinking: instead of substitute the color switch for the custom action button, give us both!
The situation here is “either/or”. There is enough physical space to adjust both the switch and the custom button on the left edge of the modern smartphone. We can be perfect in both worlds and can call it one day. People who like the standard color switch will be satisfied, and those who are seeing the use of the button will be able to prepare their experience for themselves.
We can have both of them exactly, and will not lose the little left of their unique identity in the OnePlus wide Android phone Market
A trade that feels like fraud and not upgraded
The color switch that became one of my favorite hardware features exactly ten years ago, but quietly increased the value of intelligence, which has increased the price very much. This has so far been a special thing for all one -pulse devices, which I have consciously asked to copy to all other Android phones.
We have lost many famous hardware features on our smartphones in the past years.
3.5 mm audio jack.
MicroSD card slot.
LED Notification Light.
Removing battery.
Compact flagship phone.
FM radio support.
Easy boot loader unlocking and modding customs ROM.
This list is long and returns some painful memories for people who have actively used smartphones on the golden days of Android more than a decade ago.
Shall I use OnePlus 15? You can bet that when I enter the premises of Philosophy, I will be in front of the queue.
Shall I use OnePlus 15? Of course, once I was released, I have always been delaying the One -Plus flagship, and I cannot allow this tradition to be lost. However, I can already realize after the lack of the last sign of Android properties, which will mark the end of a period.
The adaptation in the aftermath switch Times will be one hard, it is definitely.
