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Let this be a lesson to the big, international, tablet manufacturers out there whose customers are still languishing with an old version of Android: The community is way better than you are.

After OPPO’s partnership with CyanogenMod Inc., the latter have set up a YouTube channel where their first video features China’s own OPPO N1!

Cyanoogen are having an amazing year, they launched as a company teamed up with Oppo and have now received an additional $23 million in funding which could mean more Chinese CyanogenMod phones are on the way.

More great news for Oppo and CyanogenMod today after the Oppo N1 became the worlds first CyanogenMod phone!

FAEA are promoting their open source phones once again with an offer to save $30 on a developer version of the FAEA F2 or FAEA F2S.

One of the issues with Mediatek phones is lack of custom ROM support, but this is slowly changing with the release of more sources codes, the latest of which is the Oppo R819.

Chinese phone maker, and relative newcomer to the phone scene, FAEA have announced that they will release source code for their Mediatek phones and plans on building a CyanogenMod dev team!

The CyanogenMod Team have been forced to remove their Installer app from the Google Play store after warnings that Google would forcibly remove the app.

If a Chinese phone maker wants to make it internationally then following the Oppo strategy would be what I would suggest, and Oppo’s next plans could involve launching a whole new sub-brand.

Official Oppo video shows some of the great features which come on the new Color ROM for the Find 5 and Oppo N1.

Fans of custom ROMs and CyanogenMod in particular can rejoice today as the team have launched the CyanogenMod Installer on Google Play.

Oppo will be launching a limited edition version of the Oppo N1 with CyanogenMod installed right out of the box!

Oppo have launched the 3rd round of Oppo Ambassador Recruitment today bringing the popular program to 6 new languages.

Kernel source codes for the Xiaomi Mi2 turn up on GitHub, custom ROMs coming soon?

Some weeks ago our sister site GizChina.it launched a poll to decide which version of the new GizRom should be launched for the Zopo ZP980, ZP990, C2 and C3 first. The winner was MIUI V5 and as promised here it is ready to download and install!

The team behind the CyanogenMOD custom ROM have announced that they will be launching two version of the ROM to suit developers and regular users.

Vivo’s new Funtouch ROM brings new features to the already fantastic Vivo Xplay Android smartphone.

Well known developers from around the world including Chainfire, Xplodwild and Dees_Troy have come together to build another aftermarket ROM (or custom ROM) which aims to make the Android operating system more open and user-friendly – the OmniROM.

There had been plenty of rumours about a Xiaomi tablet and although nothing has been released yet, fans still can’t shake the idea so have had to port MIUI V5 over to the Lenovo A3000 tablet.

Oppo and CyanogenMod’s partnership has already kicked of with the first stable release of the alternative Android ROM for the Oppo Find 5.