OnePlus introduces OxygenOS team, gives a few tidbits on OxygenOS

If you’re a follower of OnePlus news, you know that CyanogenMod is out and OxygenOS will be the new ROM experience on OnePlus devices.

OxygenOS is a ROM created in-house by OnePlus, promising to bring Lollipop goodness to the upstart company’s line of smartphones.

The new crew is comprised of one former Microsoft development engineer and quite a few developers from another popular third-party Android ROM: Paranoid Android! You can check out some background on each of the employees by visiting the source link below, directing you to OnePlus’ blog post on the announcement.

As far as OxygenROM info, the blog post didn’t give any teaser photos or anything else visual, but OnePlus did have the following to say:

As we’ve promised before, OxygenOS will not ship with any bloatware. We’re keeping it clean and streamlined for performance. We value things like battery life and system efficiency, so we’ve remained true to our ROM’s namesake and created a seamless experience that is lightweight and essential.

OnePlus further wanted to express their motives behind developing the OxygenOS:

By doing so, we can offer better localization and faster updates. We can directly implement user feedback and make it easy for the OnePlus community to shape our ROM and create the OS that they want to use. Integration between hardware, software, and the cloud will become more seamless and unified for everyone using a OnePlus device. By creating our own software, we’re better able to work directly with our users to improve our OS. It’s something we’ve become quite fond of saying: when we work together, amazing things happen. 

So February 12 has arrived, but should you start expecting an OxygenOS over-the-air update today? Not just yet. OnePlus says the ROM is still in the testing phase and is not ready for a stable release to consumers.

There are various certifications that must be completed before releasing a Lollipop-based ROM, and this takes some time. We’ve decided to move forward with a fully-stable build, which is currently in the testing phase. Because this is our first major software release, we have to ensure that everything is solid and stable before making it available for download. We wouldn’t ask you to settle for anything less, and we appreciate your patience.

Source: OnePlus

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