Oneus took to its blog early Friday to announce that it will reveal its own custom Android-based ROM called OxygenOS on Thursday, February 12, after spending the first year of its existence tied to the CyanongenMod operating system. The company had little else to say other than the name as it sets up yet another series of endless teases to hype its br. The story behind the story: ’ve known that Oneus has planned its own ROM for some time. The company officially announced it would build its own ROM in late November, but reports of Oneus’ ROM intentions first surfaced in October—long before the Cyanogen-India debacle. In late December, Oneus offered an “early community preview” of its then unnamed ROM. The early build was very basic didn’t stray far from the Android Open Source oject’s roots. That should no longer be the case when we get our first look at OxygenOS in a few weeks.
A passage to India
Oneus has yet to announce its plans for the first iteration of OxygenOS. It will clearly hit India, where the company’s Oneus One phone has stopped receiving updates to its Cyanogen build due to a recent exclusivity arrangement between Cyanogen Micromax. Oneus did not clarify whether users in North America elsewhere will start to see OxygenOS at the same time. No doubt the the eventual plan is to roll out worldwide, with Oneus hyping Oxygen as a “simple pure… fundamental building block,” but in the immediate future Cyanogen is far more fleshed out, stable, offers a number of its own apps as well.
