The successor to the best phone you've never heard comes this summer

The smartphone you should be talking about is coming.

The OnePlus 5, the successor to the OnePlus 3T, the best phone most people have never heard of, but hopefully have because you read Mashable obsessively, will launch this summer.

OnePlus confirmed to Mashable the OnePlus 5 exists. The company told The Verge it's skipping the "OnePlus 4" because the number four is considered unlucky (tetraphobia). In Chinese, four is pronounced very similarly to the word death.

This superstition is the same reason why many buildings in Asia skip the fourth floor. For example, if you hop into an elevator in China you probably won't find a fourth floor button.  Read more...