Cyanogen on Thursday has seemingly clarified that the OnePlus One will get OTA updates in India.
The
news will come as a respite for potential OnePlus One smartphone buyers
in India who were disappointed with the news that Cyanogen, due to its
exclusive partnership with Micromax, will no longer support any other
devices shipping in India with future updates.
Making a
clarification on its official blog, Cyanogen says, "To clarify
misinformation out there, the OnePlus One will get OTA firmware updates
for all global devices, including global devices for our users in
India."
The rather ambiguously-worded post does not indicate if OnePlus devices
sold in India will receive updates. We've written to Cyanogen to clarify
that all devices in India will get OTA updates and we will update this
story as soon as we get a response.
OnePlus in the meanwhile has
responded to our queries, saying, "We have not received official
communication or confirmation on further developments and cannot comment
at this time."
(Also see: OnePlus' Carl Pei Talks About Cyanogen Snub; Says OnePlus Two Due Q3 2015)
The
blog, titled 'Cyanogen's Commitment to our Users,' further added, "We
are proud of the work we did on the OnePlus One. Through our
collaboration with OnePlus, we demonstrated the power of strong hardware
and software tuned for exceptional performance."
The firm is
essentially negating its previous statement from last week saying its
exclusive deal with Micromax's YU brand for Cyanogen OS in India meant
it "will not support any other devices shipping in India with future
updates including Lollipop."
Last week, OnePlus Director and
Co-Founder Carl Pei in a blog had reacted to Cyanogen's statement in a
heartfelt blog expressing the firm's surprise and disappointment at the
news, but insisted the launch of the OnePlus One in India would not be
affected, though the smartphone would not receive updates to its
custom-build of Cyanogen OS.
Pei had added that OnePlus had always
planned to build its own custom software for its smartphones, but that
Cyanogen's announcement had made the firm shift its engineering efforts
towards its Android team, which will push out a community build based on
Android 5.0 Lollipop in December, and a production-ready build by
February. The move was seen as an attempt by OnePlus to protect itself
from such future issues.
OnePlus launched its flagship One
smartphone in India, priced at Rs. 21,999 for the 64GB version
(Sandstone Black). The smartphone will be available via invites
exclusively on Amazon.in. A 10-day return policy by Amazon was also
announced, while HCL Care will exclusively handle after sales service
across more than 20 service centres in India.
The OnePlus One runs
Cyanogen 11S or CM 11S, with the 'S' signifying the customisation for
the One smartphone. Notably, CM 11S is based on Android 4.4 KitKat,
while the company has issued several OTA updates bringing bug fixes and
new features in the interim, with the latest in November taking it to CM
11S 44S - it ships with this version out-of-the-box in India.
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