OnePlus may be disappearing, but I still remember the company at its best — this phone was peak OnePlus

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Earlier this week OnePlus confirmed the long-standing rumors that it was shutting down operations in multiple regions around the world — instead focusing all its efforts on the Chinese and Indian markets. In effect, contrary to the company's long-standing motto, OnePlus had decided to settle. Or, at the very least, it has in the U.S., U.K. and Europe.Naturally this news has led to lamentation from a lot of dedicated OnePlus fans online, including those people who eventually gave up on the brand for their own personal reasons. I count myself among the latter group, and still have fond memories of the first OnePlus phone I used every day: 2018's OnePlus 6. But as much as I loved the OnePlus 6, and its rear-mounted physical fingerprint scanner, that's not the phone I'm here to talk about.Instead, I'm here to remind everybody about the OnePlus 7 Pro, which is easily the peak of OnePlus' whole ethos of doing things differently.After that point, it felt like OnePlus was more interested in releasing phones that were the same as everything else on the market — and without the low price that initially made its "flagship killers" so appealing.The true full screen phone