The OnePlus 2 smartphone will be available on open sale on Amazon India from tomorrow onwards. The company just announced that its flagship smartphone will be put on open sale from 12AM on November 25 and the sale will continue till 11.59PM on November 27. According to a blog post made by OnePlus, the sale is part of the promise made by the company, to make up for its failure to meet demand with the OnePlus 2 this year.

OnePlus has been ramping up its efforts in India in order to drive sales. When the company entered the country last year, its then flagship smartphone, the OnePlus One, took the market by storm, halting Chinese manufacturer Xiaomi’s rapid expansion. That said, the OnePlus 2 faces much more competition than its predecessor. Phones like the Honor 7, Moto X Play and others have given it touch competition, while higher priced phones, like the new Nexus devices, have also gained a lot of interest from consumers.

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Meanwhile, while the OnePlus 2 may have faced supply issues, OnePlus has introduced a second smartphone this year. The OnePlus X, which was launched in India recently, is a lower priced smartphone that focuses on design. Despite the sleek and premium design though, there have been many who have questioned the OnePlus X’s value, citing reasons like 16GB internal storage and the Snapdragon 801.

Even so, both the OnePlus 2 and OnePlus X remain amongst the favourites in the market, with many users still looking for invites. The open sale though would allow you to buy a OnePlus 2 without the aforementioned invites.

For the uninitiated, the OnePlus 2 has a 5.5 inch 1080p display, along with 4GB of RAM and the Snapdragon 810 SoC. In addition, the phone has a 13MP camera on the back and a 3300 mAh battery. It comes with OnePlus’ custom Oxygen OS and has a fingerprint scanner.

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Chinese handset company OnePlus today said it will start manufacturing its newly launched OnePlus X Onyx smartphones in India by the end of 2015.

Earlier this month, the company had announced its partnership with electronics major Foxconn to begin local assembling operations in Andhra Pradesh. Onyx will be the first device to be assembled at the facility starting December.

OnePlus today launched two new devices under OnePlus X range -- Onyx and a limited Ceramic edition -- priced at Rs 16,999 and Rs 22,999, respectively.

The devices will be available on Amazon.In through an invite-only model from November.

"OnePlus X is a design-centric device, chic and powerful enough to fit any lifestyle. The Onyx also marks our entry into the sub-Rs 20,000 range and will help us expand our base further in the country," OnePlus General Manager India Vikas Agarwal told PTI.

The company had launched its first device last year and is aiming for sales of one million devices by the end of December 2015 in India.

"We may run short on the target a little but that is on account of shortage in supply rather than anything else," he said.

The new factory will have a cumulative peak capacity of producing up to five lakh units per month and will generate direct employment of over 1,000 full time workers.

OnePlus X features a 5-inch display, 3GB RAM, 2.3 GHz quad-core processor, 13MP rear and 8MP front camera, 16 GB memory (expandable up to 128GB) and 2,525 mAh battery.