Is the OnePlus 5 future-proof?

[danmerezeanu]

Yes. That will be a good idea. It only depends on they willing to give support to this phone for more than 2 years. if not.... we can only hope the developers' community will remain active for this phone.

 

[lancester28]

Any smartphone you purchase today will be and should be good for the next 2 years for official support.

Any smartphone you purchase today, if they support custom ROMs can be good for years to come.

That makes all phone as non-future proof

 

[PRGDR]

Not a phone made that basically won't be unusable after about 4 or 5 years. Just the nature of the beast I am afraid.

"Unusable" is a strong word. if you are willing to put up with a little lag, a phone might last a bit more than that (with custom ROMs, of course). My daily driver right now is a Samsung Galaxy Note 1 (GT-N7000), kind of slow, but it works, and with Android M stable (N is still beta).

 

[PRGDR]

It's possible to do it yourself, all you need is a little confidence and a couple of tools.

Yeah, right, thanks for pointing it out. I just watched the IFIXIT video:

https://es.ifixit.com/Teardown/OnePlus+5+Teardown/94173

Although I do not know whether getting a replacement battery fro OP is easy.