Cyanogen Inc. on Wednesday announced that it has hired two key executives from Qualcomm and Amazon who will help oversee the company's global and systems engineering projects, in addition to helping Cyanogen continue to evolve Android as an operating system. One new exec is Stephen Lawler, who previously worked for Amazon and even as the chief technology officer of Bing Maps with...
Remember the Hero 2+? Alcatel OneTouch announced plans for a Cyanogen smartphone all the way back in March, but it turns out the company may have spoken too soon. The device has officially been cancelled, though the two firms still plan to release a new phone in the future. Alcatel OneTouch’s North America chief Steve Cistulli confirmed the news earlier this week. Here’s the full...
Future versions of Cyanogen will come loaded with smart functions for identifying callers and preventing calls from unwanted spammers. The company recently teamed up with Truecaller, which will come baked-in to new versions of the Android-based operating system. Truecaller, which announced the news, said that upcoming phones that run Cyanogen OS will ship with its software pre-...
Cyanogen helped make the OnePlus One a success. Now the Android-based OS is teaming up with Alcatel One Touch for a new 6-inch smartphone headed to the U.S. this spring. To be totally honest, the Hero 2+ isn't exactly a new device. It's more like a slight refresh of the original Hero 2, packing the same 6-inch 1080p display, 13-megapixel rear camera, 5-megapixel front-facing camera,...
Cyanogen capped off a pretty great year this week with the launch of its new Yureka smartphone in India, and even managed to squeeze in a quick jab at one of its biggest rivals at the same time. Responding to a question about competing operating system, Cyanogen CEO Kirt McMaster bashed Samsung's long-delayed Tizen OS while playing up his company's own software. "Samsung can't build a...
The popular OnePlus One has been banned in India just two weeks after going on sale. Local smartphone maker Micromax was able to secure an injunction against the device after it violated the company's exclusive partnership with Cyanogen, Inc. The One is one of a small few Android smartphones that ship with the CyanogenMod operating system — or at least a slightly modified version of it...
Cyanogen already offers customization options beyond anything stock Android can do, but a new app from the company promises to take smartphone personalization to a whole new level. “Themes” is a new app for Cyanogen OS announced on Monday, which lets you tweak every single thing about your operating system. In short, it looks pretty awesome. Themes actually reminds us of the Theme...
The CyanogenMod team announced recently that CyanogenMod 11 M6 is now available for more than 50 devices. In a blog post, the team behind the project said that it will soon start to push out Milestone, or "M" releases instead of publications labeled "stable" or "RC" (release candidate) in the future. Part of the reason is to curtail concerns that the team is moving slowly to hit stable...