OnePlus 3T is a better version of the best sleeper Android phone of the year

If you know startup phone maker OnePlus, you know all about how it doesn't follow the rulebook.

From the company's invite-to-buy OnePlus One and OnePlus 2 to this year's premium OnePlus 3 to the company's VR "launches," the company walks to the beat of its own drum, not the industry's.

Which is why the company's doing something it's never done before: replacing its flagship OnePlus 3 barely half a year later with the even better OnePlus 3T.

I asked OnePlus's head of marketing Kyle Kiang what the "T" in 3T stands for. His answer: Some people use "S" (a clear reference to Apple) and OnePlus decided to use "T" — just because it's one letter after S. It's one plus. You get it? Read more...