For the past few weeks now, OnePlus has been filling us in on some of the specifics behind its upcoming CyanogenMod-running One smartphone. A lot of that has sounded really good, like the swappable backplates made of a variety of interesting materials, or the 13-megapixel Sony Exmor camera. Really, if there’s just one spec we were a little less than impressed ...
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OnePlus continues to deliver news of its upcoming One handset piecemeal, and earlier this week we got details about what to expect from the smartphone’s imaging systems. Our next update arrives today, pulling back the camera a little and focusing on the One’s external design as we get word of interchangeable covers crafted from a number of materials. OnePlus calls these “covers,” but from the harsh words it has to say about cases that are applied on top of a ...
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OnePlus is hard at work on its One smartphone, set to arrive running a special incarnation of CyanogenMod later this year – sometime in the first half, at least. While there’s still a good deal we don’t yet know about the handset, OnePlus has been remarkably forthright in disclosing certain details about the phone’s hardware, and especially in these post-MWC days we’ve been hearing a ton about what to expect.
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Being able to talk to your phone, issuing voice commands while it’s sitting around in its low power sleep mode, is a feature that really came to prominence last year with the launch of the Motorola Moto X. But while the Moto X gave it wings, the DSP hardware that cab be used of to pull off such a trick is present on plenty of other handsets – just yesterday, we looked at an unofficial effort to bring the ability to the Nexus 5. There, it’s the Snapdragon 800 offering that low power DSP – a chip we ...
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Is it too early to start getting excited about the OnePlus One CyanogenMod phone? The handset isn’t due to launch until sometime in Q2, but some of the recent details we’ve been hearing about it have been making the smartphone sound more and more attractive – specifically, that sub-$400 price tag sounds pretty great. But just what sort of phone will you ultimately get for that money? We’ve heard plenty of talk from OnePlus about “
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Last month we started getting answers about Cyanogen Inc.’s plans to work with an OEM to produce an all-new CyanogenMod smartphone, with news of the formation of OnePlus from former Oppo staff and its plans for its One handset. From what OnePlus shared about the hardware (and those details were very sparse) it sounded like we were looking at a pretty darn high-end phone. We’ve talked a little about
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Google’s Chromecast is a cheap, easy-to-set-up way to stream content to your television. Really, its biggest problems have stemmed from the limited sources able to send Chromecast video. In the past, that meant it would only work with a select handful of apps, and even then your phone really only acted as a remote control, directing Chromecast to pull content from across the internet. But then last week we saw Google open up the Google Cast SDK, allowing developers ...
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CyanogenMod has long been one of the leading names in the custom ROM community. Only recently did the group go “corporate” when they formed Cyanogen, Inc. Before that, CyanogenMod was available as a flashable ROM for devices from virtually all manufacturers, and brought unofficial updates and current versions of Android to devices that had been abandoned by carriers and OEMs alike. However, CyanogenMod was limited primarily as a second-class-citizen, since devices came with their own ROM pre-installed, which would then be replaced by a custom CyanogenMod ROM. What we needed was ...
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If there’s nothing else to say about last year’s incorporation of Cyanogen Inc. and the company’s plans going forward, it’s that they’re wildly ambitious. In contrast to a platform being helmed by a Microsoft or an Apple, we’re seeing how what began as a side project for a group of enthusiasts can evolve into something greater when they really put their minds to changing the way we think about the software on our phones. With plans this year ...
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Two weeks ago, back during the CES, we finally learned what was going on with Cyanogen Inc.’s plan to have a manufacturer release a pure CyanogenMod smartphone – rather than the reflashable Oppo N1. The phone would come from new manufacturer OnePlus, spun off by a former Oppo employee. The handset – the OnePlus One – was said to be on-schedule for a launch sometime during the first half of the year. This week, OnePlus has been posting a series of short messages to Facebook, and in ...
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Two weeks ago, back during the CES, we finally learned what was going on with Cyanogen Inc.’s plan to have a manufacturer release a pure CyanogenMod smartphone – rather than the reflashable Oppo N1. The phone would come from new manufacturer OnePlus, spun off by a former Oppo employee. The handset – the OnePlus One – was said to be on-schedule for a launch sometime during the first half of the year. This week, OnePlus has been posting a series of short messages to Facebook, and ...
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CES is a time of the year for us smartphone-obsessive types where we find ourselves coping with an utter deluge of new announcements, previews, products, and demos. We’re keeping you up to date with all the really big news, but the sheer amount of info coming our way means that some of it inevitably gets shuffled around a bit. This afternoon, we’re looking back to an announcement that came down the wire overnight, with word arriving of the hardware partner Cyanogen Inc. is going with for its first from-the-ground-up CyanogenMod smartphone. While we’ve been
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Watch today’s Pocketnow Daily as we talk about the CyanogenMod variant of the Oppo N1, and its official launch today. Amazon follows the news as we talk about their new app store deals and why they exist. Nokia is next as we keep talking about their possible Nokia Android phone, as unbelievable as that may be. Sony is then making headlines with Android 4.3 for existing Xperia smartphones. We end today’s show talking about Samsung’s plans for the display of the Galaxy S 5. All this and more after the break. Stories: -
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Oppo’s N1 is an interesting phone for a lot of reasons: a rear touch panel, that cool rotating camera… but one that’s really grabbing a big chunk of the attention is the phone’s special status as officially supporting CyanogenMod as an alternate platform. Earlier this month, we saw the regular N1 go up for sale, which fully supports users re-flashing their handsets with a CM ROM. In addition to that model, we’ve also known about
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Watch today’s Pocketnow Daily as we talk about our coverage of Jolla’s first smartphone, and what we should expect from it in the weeks to come. We later talk about Samsung’s plans for Tizen, which are closer than you might think. Then we cover some positive news on the wooden Moto X, aside from a new Moto Maker strategy in January. Then we cover Nokia’s plans for future Lumia smartphones, aside from the Black update to the Lumia 1020. We end today’s show talking about the CyanogenMod expansion to greener pastures. All this and more after the break. Stories: - ...
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