OnePlus One review: a great phone, if you can get it

What does it mean to “Never Settle” when it comes to a smartphone? Almost every piece of technology has its limits, due to the restrictions of available technology, physics, or just how much circuitry you can cram into a rectangular box.Does not settling mean including every possible feature under the sun? Does it mean making an affordable phone with zero compromises on hardware? What would zero compromises look like? New kid on the block OnePlus, a Chinese manufacturer led by a

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Why didn’t I put CyanogenMod 11 on my Nexus 5 sooner?

The Nexus 5 was unveiled on October 31st of last year, and offered for sale through Google’s Play Store the same day. In those several months I’ve run the stock version of Android, though about half way through I rooted it and run several apps that require those elevated privileges. That’s pretty significant. It’s the first personal phone that I haven’t run a Custom ROM on since my very early days with Windows CE. Even back then I ran “cooked” ROMs on my Pocket PCs. Since then, running a Custom ROM has gotten significantly easier. Rooting toolkits ...

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A look at CyanogenMod 11 on the Nexus 5

The CyanogenMod team has been busy getting the Nexus 5 running CyanogenMod 11. A few days ago the first milestone along the path to a stable CyanogenMod 11 was released for the Nexus 5 and a few other devices. I didn’t have much luck with it. After a few hours of troubleshooting I finally gave up and moved along to the 12/09 and 12/10 Nightlies. Both have been working quite well, but they do have some rough edges and hiccups here and there. Those are to be expected since Nightlies are ...

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CyanogenMod 11.0 M1 released for Nexus 7, the Nexus 4, Nexus 5 and Nexus 10

Owners of all versions of the Nexus 7, the Nexus 4, Nexus 5 and Nexus 10 — though they have to be “actively AOSP-supported Nexus devices” — can get a taste of KitKat done the CyanogenMod-way. Today, the team has released a “Milestone 1” version of CyanogenMod 11, instead of going the old, regular, nightlies-way. This is possible, as the team puts it, because “the AOSP-supported Nexus devices should have minimal to no device specific issues (as their hardware code comes ...

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