That the company announced Monday. During an earlier round of investment stakes venture capitalists already $ 30 million in the company.
The Android version CyanogenMod has been available for several years as ROMs for Android. The adjustment to the operating system can be installed on Android phones and then changed many aspects of the system.
Cyanogen also makes its own Android-based operating system CyanogenOS, which is installed by default on some smartphones OnePlus Alcatel and Micromax.
Earlier rumors that Microsoft money into Cyanogen turn out not to be true. Among the new investors are or Twitter, chipmaker Qualcomm and media magnate Rupert Murdoch.
For smartphone manufacturers is the software of Cyanogen mainly a way to reduce the dominance of Google Android. In a profile in business magazine Forbes says Kirt McMaster, director of Cyanogen Monday: “We shoot a bullet through the head of Google.”
The current version of CyanogenOS still makes use of apps and services from Google, though CyanogenMod delivered without Google services. Future versions of CyanogenOS Google apps seem to be less important.
In a version that appears shortly app Boxer is the standard way to send emails. Also get a new phone company Blu CyanogenOS without a variant of Google services.
Exact details are not yet known, but Blu-director Samuel Ohev-Zion says a phone to see with apps from the store from Amazon, the search engine Bing and voice assistant Cortana from Microsoft, and maps from Nokia . “If those apps are deeply integrated into the phone, they usually work better than Google Apps,” said Ohev-Zion
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