OnePlus Oxygen UI leaked, Lollipop ROM teased

OnePlus seems to be picking up the pace to put its device back on track after the ugly mess it was involved with in India. Cyanogen Inc just recently tweeted that it was quite ready with a Lollipop build for the OnePlus One and based on a video from OnePlus itself, an Android 5.0 ROM is indeed ready. Whether it comes from Cyanogen or OnePlus directly, we don’t know yet. What we do know, however, thanks to a leak, is that Oxygen OS will be colorfully flat.

Cyanogen has committed itself to releasing Android 5.0 for the OnePlus One, but we still don’t know whether OnePlus will be using that. We do already know a few things. OnePlus will definitely be moving forward with their own ROM, which they recently named Oxygen OS (Hydrogen OS in China). They’ve even released a Lollipop-based alpha version of the ROM with nothing much added yet. The video below from OnePlus does seem to confirm that, though it’s hard to say from a cursory glance whose version it is.

In the meantime, however, someone leaked what the Oxygen OS interface might look like. It’s quite reassuring that it doesn’t diverge too much from the flat yet colorful Material Design aesthetic, though it’s hard to tell how much changes OnePlus made based on just these screenshots alone. And more than appearance, the deal breaker will definitely be the features, as OnePlus will have to make do without CyanogenMod features that its users may have grown to love.

The Chinese startup, however, seems confident that it can weather this period of tribulation, and it has the war wounds to show. OnePlus just released is Report Card for 2014 and its achievements are indeed rather impressive for such a young startup with limited resources, not to mention limited supplies to begin with. In areas where it officially ships its smartphones, majority of the shares come from East Asia and Europe. Notably, even though it has only been there for a few weeks, India makes up 7 percent of the pie. All in all, OnePlus managed to ship 1,055 tons of merchandise, which probably includes accessories, equal to 6 blue whales. That amounts to a revenue of more than $300 million, in just 7 months since it started business. The question now is whether OnePlus can one up itself and do even better.

SOURCE: OnePlus
VIA: Gizmo China