Five days have passed since we advanced the news that CyanogenMod could be working on developing your first 'own' smartphone, whose work would be carried out together with an Asian manufacturer that had all the ballots to be Oppo. After this information, others appeared suggesting the possibility that Steve Kondik created his own online brand to market your mobile devices. In this context now comes the news of the resignation of vice president of Oppo, Pete Lau, who opens the possibility for him to join the new firm, given his good relationship with Kondik.
Lau's departure from Oppo occurs very shortly after the visible head of CyanogenMod reveal on social networks the first details of that smartphone that they intend to launch on the market with the aim of standing up to the Nexus 5 de Google, not only in specifications, but also in relation to its competitive prices. In this way, we would be talking about a device equipped with the new processor Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 MSM8974AC whose three cores would run at a maximum clock speed of 2,5 gighaerts.
From your profile in Google+, the until now vice president of Oppo He recalled his time at the Chinese firm and thanked his former colleagues for the years of work and joint struggle. In the same way he recalled that Oppo it has always made and will continue to make "exquisite products", marked by "quality and design"; details both that according to Lau “have been etched in his blood after 15 years with the company".
With his departure from Oppo, all speculation points towards the possibility of Pete Lau joining the CyanogenMod at the launch from scratch of the new online brand of smartphones equipped as standard with the popular 'Custom ROM', which will also equip the limited edition of O on which we already advance you that would be launched during the next month of December.
On the other hand, Lau's departure from Oppo does not imply in principle the rupture of the existing agreement between the Chinese company and CyanogenMod. In fact, it is not yet entirely clear the level of independence that the new online brand could have with respect to Oppo, since there could be a case similar to that existing between nubian y ZTE - the first is a sub-brand of the second focused on the Premium sector of the smartphone market -. Regardless of the end result, it will be interesting to keep track of the future of both Oppo in his intention to stand up to Xiaomi, As in CyanogenMod or Pete Lau himself.
