Google Just OKed a Phone That Runs Modded Android Out of the Box

You like to mess with your phone ? Unlock that bootloader and flash some read-only memory ? Soon there ’ll be another choice for would - be tinker who want to run mod . Google just approved thefirst ever Android sound to execute the ever - popular Cyanogenmod right out of the box .

The hardware ’s not unexampled . It ’s literally just the Oppo N1 — a in high spirits - end Chinese - made phone with a eldritch flippy camera thing — but with a modified ROM stretch up on it from the scratch . You could always just cut up your phone and do this form of affair yourself , but the big pot is that Google OKed this ; in parliamentary procedure to betray an Android intersection with the suite of Google apps admit , you have to get Google ’s blessing . And the Cyanogenmod team did . Other merchandise that run forked or modified versions of Android ( we ’re looking at you Kindle Fire ) do n’t have those apps include .

You plausibly wo n’t need the Cyanogen Oppo N1 ; it ’s tacky to just pick up a Nexus 5 and put Cyanogenmod on there yourself . But the fact that Google ’s explicitly bestowed its blessing on a read-only memory opens up a whole new , eldritch earthly concern of pre - modded hardware . It ’s crazy to call back that Google ’s explictly coolheaded with encouraging a read-only storage that ’s squeeze at its heels feature film - wise . But if Google can bring more user to its services , it ’s all worth it in the longsighted run . The Cyanogenmod adaptation of the Oppo N1 will go on sale December 24th . [ Google+ ]

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