Vernee announced a while back that their new device, the Mars, would be receiving a Nougat update soon. Now, the company has announced that the update rolls out on the 6th of December, or in other words, tomorrow.
The Vernee Mars is Vernee’s attempt at a premium mid-range device, and it was a pretty good attempt. According to our own Zi Jin, the Mars is a good device, if not slightly overpriced (read his review here). The prospect of timely Android updates is nice though. Vernee Mars can buy here.
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It’s great to see that Vernee is hard at work updating their existing devices instead of releasing too many to keep track of (*cough* Elephone *cough*). We’re definitely looking forward to what they’ll do in the future, as it’s looking pretty promising.
This is good. Now they just need to release sources to the Apollo lite and Mars.
Don’t think that’s going to happen
Well they promised to release sources for the Apollo lite already. Its the smartest thing they can do at this point IMO.
But it’s been out for close to a month.
https://www.xda-developers.com/vernee-releases-complete-source-code-for-mediatek-x20-based-apollo-lite/
Awesome. People on the forums were still complaining about it.
Well I’ve just decided on a new phone. If you haven’t written about it yet Team M.A.D. the guys that developed Nougat for the Jiayu S3, have decided to develop for the Apollo lite. Now just have to wait on CM 14.1
mars getting nougat before apollo lite? really vernee? are they telling us, “buy our latest phone or get f with updates.”?
Seems like the Thor is next in line, not sure about the Apollo Lite.
They’ve already said apollo lite will get one in December.
They would be better off releasing sources anyway.
that’s even worse, they promised and promised but never actually deliver. they will learn the consequence the hard way if they keep it up.
That’s the main reason I haven’t replaced my redmi note 2 yet. I was excited about the Apollo lite because they announced that they were going to release sources but haven’t yet. Now it looks like the Le Max 2 is my best bet but I dont want to give le eco my money since they removed the headphone jack….
funnily enough I have redmi note 2 AND apollo lite with me. the lite is ultimately the better phone sans its weight and rather blocky edges. way faster than note 2 even though I’ve installed Cyanogenmod on note 2, way better camera if you use third party app like camera fv-5. that’s it though, if you can live without those, I suggest to look elsewhere.
Well it better be better than the note 2 since its an ancient budget device. I know its time to upgrade but I need a phone with released sources so I can get my own updates from XDA. They are currently working on CM 14.1 for the Le Max 2. I’m also looking at either the Mi Max because of my big hands, or sacrificing screen size and going for a Mi 5s. But again, no sources means no cm 14.
it’s wired that Vernee had already released the source code of Apollo Lite on their own official forum, and XDA had also reported about this, why you guys still don’t know ?
Yes, I saw the article here: https://www.xda-developers.com/vernee-releases-complete-source-code-for-mediatek-x20-based-apollo-lite/
the Vernee CEO said that it’s not Vernee don’t want to get the Apollo Lite updated with Android 7.0, it needs more assistance from MTK to help them solve the stability issues of software competibility, that’s the reason why we need wait for so long.