An open sale for the One smartphone means that consumers will not require any invite to purchase the handset during the sale.

An open sale for the One smartphone means that consumers will not require any invite to purchase the handset during the sale. Despite announcing the reason for the sale, the firm's timing of the open sale is certainly not coincidental, with the similarly-specced and priced Xiaomi Mi 4 becoming available in its first flash sale on the same day.