If you live in mainland Europe and are thinking of buying a OnePlus 3 smartphone, you'd better move quickly or else you'll have to wait a month to get your hands on one.
OnePlus is suspending sales of its its latest flagship smartphone in Europe and Hong Kong for a month. The pause, which is to give the company "time to replenish" its inventory after selling an unprecedented number of handsets, will last from August 9 to September 16.
OnePlus fans in the UK and US don't need to worry – the sales suspension only applies to to the following European countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain. Sales will also be paused in Hong Kong for the same amount of time.
OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei released a statement about the suspension on the company's blog: "We were confident in the OnePlus 3 when it launched, but sales in mainland Europe have been way better than what we expected. Therefore, we’ve decided to temporarily pause sales in some countries in order to give inventory time to replenish."
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"We are working hard to secure more stock and fire up more production lines so that we can fulfill our goal of putting premium products into the hands of as many people as possible."
Orders placed before the August 9 deadline will still be delivered on time, Pei confirmed.
The OnePlus 3 is the first smartphone made by the Chinese firm to not be released on an invite-only basis. The phone's release in June this year was welcomed with a barrage of enthusiastic reviews, including a nine-star rating from [i] WIRED[/i].
OnePlus put up the price of its flagship smartphone in the wake of the UK's Brexit vote at the end of June. The company increased the price from £309 to £329 in response to the pound's drop in value against the dollar.
This article was originally published by WIRED UK
