OnePlus, the Chinese smartphone manufacturing firm has finally scrapped its invite-only purchase requirement for its flagship smartphone OnePlus 2. On the occasion of celebrating its second anniversary on December 17, the company has cancelled the invite-only requirement for OnePlus 2 smartphone. The company has launched the 2016 flagship killer, OnePlus 2 in August earlier this year and made available only to consumers with invites. Now, it has finally announced that you will no more require an invitation to buy the OnePlus 2 smartphone that will go on sale starting today, i.e., December 5.

Apart from the OnePlus 2 smartphone sale, the recently launched OnePlus X will be available invite-free from December 5 to 7. The company has announced that during this period of sale, OnePlus will be providing exclusive offers to the consumers with 1 percent to 90 percent discounts on various accessories.

Previously, the company has hosted many flash sales wherein its products have been sold without an invite. But all those flash sales without invite system were ephemeral. Now, starting midnight today, OnePlus 2 will be invite-free forever, according to the reports.

According to the OnePlus blog, the company stated, “Speaking of cheer, we’re ringing in the holiday spirit by making it much simpler to give the gift of OnePlus this year. Starting at midnight on December 5, not only will the OnePlus 2 will be invite-free forever… we’re also making the OnePlus X invite-free all day December 5-7.”

A spokesperson for OnePlus stated, “The OnePlus X will not go invite free between December 5-7.” Reportedly, the company is currently planning an open sale for the OnePlus X smartphone for users in India but the plans aren’t finalised yet.

OnePlus 2 – Flagship Killer Smartphone

OnePlus 2 is truly a flagship killer that the company has built a device that rivals with the likes of the Google Nexus 6P and others. OnePlus 2 smartphone comes with high-end specs sheet at a comparatively lower price is an amazing highlight of this smartphone. The metal-frame design of OnePlus 2 smartphone gives a premium look. One of the amazing features of the smartphone is that it comes with a fingerprint scanner and USB Type-C port. The fingerprint scanner is faster than the iPhone TouchID and allows you save up to five fingerprints.

On the camera front, the handset comes equipped with a 13-megapixel snapper. It also gets a new camera and a new solution that allows you to take 50MP photos and there’s also the slow motion mode. The device is powered by Snapdragon 810 paired with 4GB of RAM and is backed by a 3,300mAh battery. You can read our full review of the OnePlus 2.

OnePlus X – First ‘Make in India’ Device

On the other hand, OnePlus X is the ‘Make in India’ device from the Chinese makers for which local production will start in Hyderabad. Under the hood, the device will feature a 5-inch AMOLED display with a pixel resolution of 1080 x 1920 pixels. The handset is powered by Qualcomm’s quad-core Snapdragon 801 processor clocked at 2.3 GHz which is paired with 3 GB RAM. On the storage front, the device includes an internal storage of 16GB which can be further expanded up to 128GB via a microSD card.

On the Camera front, the device comes equipped with a 13MP rear camera along with an 8MP front-facing camera. The autofocus allows you to capture your subject in 0.2 seconds. The dual SIM smartphone is backed by a 2525mAh battery. The OnePlus X will run Oxygen OS based on Android 5.1.1 Lollipop operating system.

Invite-Free Forever

OnePlus 2 will go invite-free forever and will be available for sale via online stores starting today while the OnePlus X smartphone will go on sale from December 5 to 7. In addition, the company is offering the OnePlus 2 StyleSwap covers at 50 percent off while select OnePlus One accessories at 90 percent discount. All other accessories offered by OnePlus will be available at 10 percent off as well a confined number of first orders will win an exclusive Never Settle mousepad as a special holiday gift.