14 DAY TRIAL // Oppo N1, the latest flagship smartphone from the Chinese mobile phone maker, has been available for purchase for a few months now, but it can be grabbed at the moment in a new flavor, namely a CyanogenMod Limited Edition.
The handset landed on shelves earlier this week with a price tag of €449 ($617) attached to it, and it can be seen on this page on the official OppoStyle Europe website. It is also available through select retailers.
Featuring 16GB of internal memory and a 5.9-inch full HD touchscreen, this is, in fact, the same smartphone that was put up for sale a while back, only that it comes with CyanogenMod software loaded on top right from the start.
The Limited Edition smartphone also features CyanogenMod stickers, a unique packaging, along with a specially designed case that sports the CyanogenMod and Oppo mascots on it, namely Cid and Ollie.
For CyanogenMod, the launch of this smartphone represents a great achievement, and they decided to celebrate it through the release of factory images and source code for the device.
“The CM Edition Oppo N1 is a milestone for us, and this launch is no minor achievement – it is the culmination of over four years of work by CM contributors and developers around the world,” the team notes in a blog post.
“We are going one step further. In addition to releasing the factory images – allowing N1 owners a safe return from their hacking hijinks – we are making available the accompanying source for not only the shipping 10.2 codebase, but the latest and greatest CM 11 code.”
Users will find the CM 10.2 source code split into two repositories, namely kernel and N1 device, the team also announced. Furthermore, they noted that users would need the apq8064-common device to build against CM 11 code.
“We are pushing up the code to make these trees complete – allowing any N1 user around the world to build for and customize their phone. We are ecstatic to see this day come, and even more so to make the code available immediately,” the blog post continues.