The team behind CyanogenMod has released a new CyanogenMod Installer tool for Mac that makes it easy to load the latest versions of its custom ROMs with just one click. Compatible with both smartphones and tablets, the installer does not require devices to be rooted or an unlocked bootloader.
Oppo’s flagship N1 smartphone went on sale globally for the first time on December 10, but the version everybody wants — that’s the one that comes with CyanogenMod 10.2 pre-installed — wasn’t available from day one. Oppo has today announced, however, that it will be available on December 24 — just in time for Christmas.
Late last month, the CyanogenMod team started rolling out CM11 nightlies — based on Android 4.4 KitKat — for a bunch of popular devices including the variants of Galaxy S4/S3, HTC One and the Nexus devices. Since then, the team has been slowly expanding its roster of supported devices, adding support for new device with every passing day.
Over the last few days, the CyanogenMod team has added support for the LG G Pad 8.3, the Sprint variant of the LG G2 and the relatively unknown, Galaxy Express.
The team behind CyanogenMod has announced that it is ready to begin work on new ROMs based on Android 4.4 KitKat after CyanogenMod 10.2 (based on Android 4.3 Jelly Bean) reached stable status this week. This means CM 10.2 is now officially ready for public use.
Oppo’s flagship N1 handset, which went on sale in China in late September, is going global on December 10. The device is fully equipped to compete with the latest flagships — packing a 5.9-inch 1080p display, a quad-core Snapdragon 600 processor, and a 13-megapixel camera — and it’ll cost $599 in the U.S. and €449 in Europe.
