You may know OnePlus as one of the fast-rising Chinese mobile companies -- the one that made a name for itself by offering an impressive phone, the OnePlus One, for a relatively cheap price. One of the key ingredients of the phone was its OS, a popular modified version of Android called Cyanogen.
Late last year, though, the relationship between OnePlus and Cyanogen hit the skids when the OnePlus One was banned in India because a rival manufacturer had an exclusive deal with Cyanogen to sell phones in that country. That led OnePlus to build its own Android-based OS, and now it has a name for it.
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OxygenOS will be the name of OnePlus' homegrown mobile operating system, which the company says it will unveil to the world on Feb. 12. In the blog post announcing the name, OnePlus didn't give much detail on how OxygenOS would differentiate itself, only that it would be "open, customizable, and free of bloat and unnecessary features."
That's not a lot to go on, but the company has earned some goodwill with the One, which Mashable called an "extremely solid phone by most measures" in its review. We'll stick around to breathe a little Oxygen.