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Zopo announced their 8-core Zopo ZP998 yesterday afternoon and we managed to get some hands on time with it. Here are our first hands on impressions of the phone!

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!

The first new launch from Zopo, in some months, is the refreshed Zopo ZP820. Here are some details of the new updated phone after some hands on time with it.

Zopo’s low cost ZP820 ‘Raiden’ smartphone has been put through its paces in Antutu 4.1 revealing impressive scores for a budget handset.

It has been reported at the team behind CyanogenMod have met with Chinese dev team Shaume! Could this mean CyanogenMod is coming to Chinese phones?

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

Even before getting interested in the Chinese smartphone market, I came across MIUI ever so often (I had an LG Optimus One) and wasn’t sure what the fuss was all about. This is how popular the MIUI ROM was, almost 2 years back. You can only imagine how much more popular the ROM has become! Many new people get introduced to MIUI each day, and there are a lot of questions asked about the included apps and features.

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!

As well as announcing 2 versions of CyanogenMOD ROM, the CyanogenMOD team also gave us a rough idea of when the Oppo N1 will launch.

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.

Koushik Dutta aka “Koush”, a part of the CyanogenMod team and the creator of various 3rd party tools and hacks like the ClockWork Mod recovery and ROM Manager, recently showcased his progress with AirPlay mirroring on Android.

If you have a dual-core JiaYu G3 and aren’t all that impressed with JiaYu’s ROM updates you could take a look at this Android 4.2.2 MIUI ROM for your phone!

Android Modder Marsapa has teamed up with GizChina.it to create custom GizChina ROMS to popular Zopo phones.