Cyanogen Details Plans for 2016 With $75 Devices and Including a Flagship

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Cyanogen had an eventful 2015 as the company announced rebranding at the beginning of the year alongside raising $80 million (approximately Rs. 497 crores) in funding, which involved investors such as Twitter, Qualcomm, Telefonica, Rupert Murdoch and more. The company also managed to strike a deal to get Microsoft's apps preloaded on Cyanogen OS-based devices. The company however has even bigger plans for 2016. Cyanogen Co-Founder and CTO Steve Kondik while speaking at Big Android BBQ Europe event detailed the company's plans for the next year. For devices, Cyanogen's focus centres around dirt-cheap phones priced at as low as $75 (approximately Rs. 5,000) and a flagship. Some of the points Kondik discussed at the event include $75 devices across multiple OEMs and multiple markets; high performance, no compromise software on inexpensive hardware supported through multiple OS revisions; powerful common SDKs for platform with focus on apps; eliminating bloat via improved integrating apps and resources for the community, and a flagship. - See more at: http://www.khanstory.com/2015/11/cyanogen-details-plans-for-2016-with-75.html#sthash.jCga7B4X.dpuf