You may not remember this now, but OnePlus was among the world’s highest-rated Android handset vendors in terms of major OS updates not that long ago. Unfortunately, the company, whose product portfolio has steadily grown over the last couple of years, is not very focused on software support anymore, moving quickly to bring the 2020-released OnePlus 8 and 8 Pro up to date several months back while keeping everyone else waiting.
We’re talking about the Always-on Ambient Display functionality, which was included in both the original OxygenOS 11 goodie pack delivered to the unlocked OP8 5G way back in October 2020 and Verizon’s “optimized” upgrade available for the OP8 5G UW starting earlier this week.