The OnePlus 2 is off to a great start. Photo: OnePlus

OnePlus fans living in China are lucky; unlike the rest of the world, they got the opportunity to buy the new OnePlus 2 without an invite this week, and boy, did they take advantage of that.

In just 64 seconds, the initial batch of 30,000 OnePlus 2 handsets were sold out.

The Galaxy Note 5 gets leaked again. Photo: Droid-Life

A removable battery and microSD card slot are two things we’ve long associated with Samsung devices, but since the South Korean company killed them both for the Galaxy S6 and S6 edge, long-time Galaxy Note fans have been worried they’re in for the same treatment.

Now new images of the Galaxy Note 5 confirm those fears.

Sprint added new customers, but not enough to keep its bronze model from T-Mobile. Photo: Mike Mozart/Flickr CC

T-Mobile has been on a hot ride lately, but it’s unfortunately at Sprint’s expense. While the latter carrier has been declining in market share for the past couple of years, it’s finally now in last place out of the four major U.S. wireless carriers. T-Mobile snatched the bronze model.

In the quarterly earnings call, Sprint said it had 57.7 million customers with a net gain of 675,000. T-Mobile, however, gained 2.1 million customers last quarter for a grand total of 58.9 million.

So alluring yet so hard to come by. Photo: Motorola

The third-generation Motorola Moto G is already off to a promising start, with wait times slipping to three weeks for the top-tier, 16GB handset with 2GB of RAM.

The new Moto G doesn’t mind a bit of sand. Photo: Motorola

Motorola’s new Moto G isn’t a high-end powerhouse, but it definitely has some good attributes, like a decent camera, and a water-resistant design that’s customizable through Moto Maker. It’s also ideal for finding singles in the desert — at least according to Motorola’s new ad.