OnePlus launched its ‘Photo-Mania’ contest just two weeks ago and distributed a ‘camera test unit’ to each of the three lucky competition winners. In terms of design, these units were not the final version of the company’s upcoming flagship smartphone, but were instead customized in a way that only the camera could be used and the rest of the body was completely covered.

Earlier today, one of the winners, who possibly studies at the Renmin University of China, uploaded five photographs that were supposedly taken on a customized OnePlus One camera unit to a Chinese social networking website. The short paragraph of text that accompanied these images stated that Kang Yikun has been in possession of the unit for the past three days and that ‘these snaps are just some of the best photographs that she has taken throughout her time with it’.

CyanogenMod founder Steve Kondik has been working with OnePlus on the company’s upcoming smartphone for months, and in a new teaser video uploaded to YouTube this week, he finally gets to see the new handset himself for the first time.

You can enjoy the “unboxing” video yourself below, but before you dive in, you should probably prepare yourself for disappointment.

HTC today posted its second loss in three quarters in another dismal earnings report, but things are beginning to look up for the Taiwanese company. Its new One M8 smartphone helped increase sales in March, and HTC has projected a profit for next quarter.

One of the many unique things about the upcoming OnePlus One is that it will run a custom version of CyanogenMod, dubbed “CyanogenMod 11S,” right out of the box. We don’t yet know what it’s going to look like, but we do get a brief taster from these leaked screenshots obtained by a “reliable tipster.”

Like a lot of modern smartphones, the HTC One M8 is “extremely difficult” to repair. That’s according to the fine folks over at iFixit, who performed one of their customary teardowns on the new flagship shortly after its release on Tuesday.

It’s easier to get into than its predecessor, which received the worst repairability score of any smartphone iFixit has pulled apart — but things get much more difficult once you’re inside.