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Google is reportedly nearing a deal to sell Motorola's phone division to Lenovo, a move that would give the Chinese smartphone manufacturer a major presence in the US smartphone market. News of the potential acquisition comes from both Reuters and China Daily, with the latter reporting that the acquisition could be announced as soon as Thursday morning in Beijing — just a matter of hours from now. Reuters reports that the deal is worth close to $3 billion, a number corroborated by China Daily's report over a deal worth over $2 billion.
Google originally bought Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion, but said at the time that it was mainly interested in its patent portfolio. Now, it appears that Google is offloading its handset business, which has been losing hundreds of millions each quarter since the purchase. Reuters reports that Lenovo's purchase will include some patents, though it appears that the acquisition focuses primarily on devices, such as the Moto X and Moto G.
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Source: http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/29/5358620/lenovo-reportedly-buying-motorola-mobility-from-google
I am not very happy about this news.
hope this is hoax. Motorola need Google, Google need Motorola
Aww you have to be kidding me
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Hope this is fake. I don't want that
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Lenovo To Buy Motorola Mobility From Google For About $3B
It's official, but what does it mean? We still don't know that
It's confirmed :|
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Yup, its confirmed!
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We will have to see what it means for the Motorola leadership team. I'm not ready to give up but I have serious concerns about what this means. Lenovo couldn't make mobility work on their own...
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Yes it is confirmed (http://www.engadget.com/2014/01/29/lenovo-nearing-3-billion-deal-for-motorola/)... And I'm not happy at all as Moto G customer!
I feel sad... All was perfect... I hope lenovo will help and don't destroy motorola
amoutie said:
And I'm not happy at all as Moto G customer!
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Why? I will not make any difference to the Moto G. Motorola has been operating independently from Google since Google bought them.
bozzykid said:
Why? I will not make any difference to the Moto G. Motorola has been operating independently from Google since Google bought them.
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but we will lost fast updates...
Well, there is still the Moto G play store edition and that gets fast updates. I think we'll be okay.
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but we will lost fast updates...
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Dennis Woodside and all management will stay with Motorola, so I doubt we will see too many changes to Motorola.
Im pretty sure this is not bad at all, Lenovo will let Motorola work as an independent company like google did, after all Motorola has its own "fans" and has regained a lot of attention last year...
I would even go the extra mile to say that Lenovo would help a lot more than Google, after all Google barely even touched Motorola...
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Well, there is still the Moto G play store edition and that gets fast updates. I think we'll be okay.
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I think that as not everyone got a GPE we will not see fast updates (or even any updates) for current devices. I don't know... I hope the future will tell otherwise!
I am worried that the way Lenovo is going to try to get their return on investment for this acquisition is not going to be very fruitful for Motorola's current and future customer base.
Let's just hope that there'll be at least some support for the Motor G into android versions beyond kitkat...
I hope that Lenovo will allow Motorola to be a independent company like when Google owned it and just use Motorola for their patents, to support future Lenovo products such as Tablets.
Cheers!
CyanogenMod Team just announced a change in it's repository for the latest Motorola devices: they use the same base repository.
What does it means? We have tons more of CM11 contributors for the Moto X!
As you can check in the article below, there are various kinds of Moto devices that will be sharing the same repository.
For you, whom checked lots of times the http://download.cyanogenmod.org/ for a new nightly and there was nothing, only some old test builds, there is a new nightly build for testing under the codename moto_msm8960dt. And you can check the latest changelog in http://www.cmxlog.com/11/moto_msm8960dt/
The link for the article is:
http://www.cyanogenmod.org/blog/motorola-g-and-more
Thank you, CyanogenMod Team, for all your efforts doing wonderful things to this set of devices and unleashing it's power!
And thanks, also, to all the developers and contributors present on XDA Developers Forum, whose are also part of this!
fredamsouza said:
Cheers!
CyanogenMod Team just announced a change in it's repository for the latest Motorola devices: they use the same base repository.
What does it means? We have tons more of CM11 contributors for the Moto X!
As you can check in the article below, there are various kinds of Moto devices that will be sharing the same repository.
For you, whom checked lots of times the http://download.cyanogenmod.org/ for a new nightly and there was nothing, only some old test builds, there is a new nightly build for testing under the codename moto_msm8960dt. And you can check the latest changelog in http://www.cmxlog.com/11/moto_msm8960dt/
The link for the article is:
http://www.cyanogenmod.org/blog/motorola-g-and-more
Thank you, CyanogenMod Team, for all your efforts doing wonderful things to this set of devices and unleashing it's power!
And thanks, also, to all the developers and contributors present on XDA Developers Forum, whose are also part of this!
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I'm curious to hear people's thoughts on CM11 on the MotoX., Personally, I enjoy a few features (Active Notifications, Flick to Camera, talking to the phone by saying "OK Google") which I don't believe are supported.
From reading other threads, a lot of people have said "Root and Xposed and GravityBox, and this is the best way to go", as opposed to throwing out the best features of the X for CM11.
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I'm curious to hear people's thoughts on CM11 on the MotoX., Personally, I enjoy a few features (Active Notifications, Flick to Camera, talking to the phone by saying "OK Google") which I don't believe are supported.
From reading other threads, a lot of people have said "Root and Xposed and GravityBox, and this is the best way to go", as opposed to throwing out the best features of the X for CM11.
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Yes, I share my thoughts with you. I came from past-generation devcies which used to work better with custom ROMs. And now I'm using a Moto X, which is awesome by what it is. And those features are really awesome for me. I'm actually using the stock ROM rooted with Xposed and GravityBox, like you mentioned, and I feel complete.
But, I also agree that all development is always welcome. Today we have a great community, that is always talking about this device, and providing information about how to use it better. TODAY we don't need much development at all for Moto X, but someday we may need!
I think the main point in my thread to be seen, may not be the fact of "Moto X is being developed by CM again", but, maybe, the repository sharing with other devices. It means that many devices has hardware so similar that it could be joined into one! And it also may mean that Moto X developers now have help from other devices' developers, because they all are working over "the same hardware".
I don't think we'll have much gain in short term, but in a long term it may mean something! Not only for Moto X, but for many other Motorola devices!
Once I discovered gravity box I no longer see why you would install cm on a nexus or near - stock device. I ran cm forever on my samsung phones but I can't justify running it on my x. Now that I know about gravity box I'll be going back to stock on my nexus 7 as well whenever I have time.
I love the project and the contributors do great work. I'll definitely check it out If I end up on a tw or sense device in the future.
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Yes, I share my thoughts with you. I came from past-generation devcies which used to work better with custom ROMs. And now I'm using a Moto X, which is awesome by what it is. And those features are really awesome for me. I'm actually using the stock ROM rooted with Xposed and GravityBox, like you mentioned, and I feel complete.
But, I also agree that all development is always welcome. Today we have a great community, that is always talking about this device, and providing information about how to use it better. TODAY we don't need much development at all for Moto X, but someday we may need!
I think the main point in my thread to be seen, may not be the fact of "Moto X is being developed by CM again", but, maybe, the repository sharing with other devices. It means that many devices has hardware so similar that it could be joined into one! And it also may mean that Moto X developers now have help from other devices' developers, because they all are working over "the same hardware".
I don't think we'll have much gain in short term, but in a long term it may mean something! Not only for Moto X, but for many other Motorola devices!
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Ah you know what? You're exactly right. I'm still in the mindset of how quickly we got the 4.4 update, and wasn't thinking long-term if this becomes an unsupported Lenovo device. Having a merged codeset for other Motorola devices will be great, especially 1 year from now.
Another thought though: I got my phone for $300. I'm having trouble thinking that I'd spend more than that again. I'm hoping that phones like the Moto X and G (along with the Nexus 5) have put enough pressure to keep prices coming down. If they stay low, I'm willing to spend $300 per year to get a new phone, and so I'm not as worried about long-term support dropping.
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Once I discovered gravity box I no longer see why you would install cm on a nexus or near - stock device. I ran cm forever on my samsung phones but I can't justify running it on my x. Now that I know about gravity box I'll be going back to stock on my nexus 7 as well whenever I have time.
I love the project and the contributors do great work. I'll definitely check it out If I end up on a tw or sense device in the future.
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This ^
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DogzOfWar said:
I'm curious to hear people's thoughts on CM11 on the MotoX., Personally, I enjoy a few features (Active Notifications, Flick to Camera, talking to the phone by saying "OK Google") which I don't believe are supported.
From reading other threads, a lot of people have said "Root and Xposed and GravityBox, and this is the best way to go", as opposed to throwing out the best features of the X for CM11.
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Gravity Box isn't going to delivered the same performance as CM11 which is very fast on the Moto X. But it's a no go for me since I need touchless control. Some custom roms like AOKP and SlimRoms have Active Display which is better and more features than Moto version, but I'm not sure they will utilize it to use low power on the Moto X.
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Gravity Box isn't going to delivered the same performance as CM11 which is very fast on the Moto X. But it's a no go for me since I need touchless control. Some custom roms like AOKP and SlimRoms have Active Display which is better and more features than Moto version, but I'm not sure they will utilize it to use low power on the Moto X.
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Anything faster than a stock Moto x, either an X with a rom, or even another phone, will be micro seconds faster. I've played with an N5 that was tweaked for performance and I gotta say....you're talking a very small noticeable difference. Very small.
For me personally now on any further phone purchases, performance won't even be a consideration. The top phones today are frigging fast. And the difference between most of them is too small for me to care. LOL
That's just my take on it anyway. I think phones have pretty well maxed out speed. Now it's time for manufacturers to work on battery life, screens, cameras, etc. Actual noticeable speed differences will step up very slowly now.
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Not talking benchmarks ....cause we all know benchmarks mean nothing in the for real life....right?
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Not talking benchmarks ....cause we all know benchmarks mean nothing in the for real life....right?
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No it's a noticeable difference, But I used Android since the beginning, some people notice minute changes more than other. I notice big difference between ART and Dalvik.
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No it's a noticeable difference, But I used Android since the beginning, some people notice minute changes more than other. I notice big difference between ART and Dalvik.
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As I said....to me the difference is so small....its not a concern. Life isn't so short I need to compare things in milliseconds. I can spare a fraction of a second here and there.
Overall...to me....fast is fast. Instant is instant. I click any app on my x....its open in an instant. Just like an N5.
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this phone is superrb.. no doubt. but
does this phone has lots of development in future???
in future can we see ROMS, KERNALS, MODS, etc... like oneplus and moto devices??
thanks in advance....
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this phone is superrb.. no doubt. but
does this phone has lots of development in future???
in future can we see ROMS, KERNALS, MODS, etc... like oneplus and moto devices??
thanks in advance....
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I agree with what you said about the phone being superb...
BUT
You registered to xda on december 2014, and waited that much to post your 1st post, and THIS was your first post!?!?!
I'm shocked!
Your question unfortunately cannot be answered! Only time will tell! No one can have a clear answer!
In my opinion, it will have some small development! Not anything close to oneplus or similar phones!
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I agree with what you said about the phone being superb...
BUT
You registered to xda on december 2014, and waited that much to post your 1st post, and THIS was your first post!?!?!
I'm shocked!
Your question unfortunately cannot be answered! Only time will tell! No one can have a clear answer!
In my opinion, it will have some small development! Not anything close to oneplus or similar phones!
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brother thanks for reply. actually previously i was used YU YUREKA which have their own official forum. so i always posted on that forum. thats why its my first post. now i sale that phone and want to buy this zuk z1. so thats why im asking about further development.
Development will start soon. We must wait for CM to release the kernel code. You will see many ROMs soon
I also guess that we gonna see many Roms after kernel release by CM... But im still waiting til i have a moderate price (for US here in austria it costs still 379 Euro via Amazon)
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I also guess that we gonna see many Roms after kernel release by CM... But im still waiting til i have a moderate price (for US here in austria it costs still 379 Euro via Amazon)
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You can use a discount code on Amazon to get it for 307 Euro, the code is 9YIBHJB7.
At least that works on Amazon.de (shipped to germany tho); i just ordered mine today in grey, delivery is expected to be Monday for SUMME EUR 307,49. It´s sold directly by ZUK and shipped by Amazon.
This one -> amazon product B014GX8B6Q (i don´t have enough posts to post direct links, sorry)
Nothing better than a decent price directly from Amazon, especially if we need warranty etc. later.
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You can use a discount code on Amazon to get it for 307 Euro, the code is 9YIBHJB7.
At least that works on Amazon.de (shipped to germany tho); i just ordered mine today in grey, delivery is expected to be Monday for SUMME EUR 307,49. It´s sold directly by ZUK and shipped by Amazon.
This one -> amazon product B014GX8B6Q (i don´t have enough posts to post direct links, sorry)
Nothing better than a decent price directly from Amazon, especially if we need warranty etc. later.
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Lenovo/ZUK decided, that people from Austria should not usw this code
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on italian Amazon the price is 299 € for both colours
Here we are with our Moto X Style/Pure Edition way after it has been released. We have been given no confirmation by cyanogen that it will ever officialy support our phones. Their is a semi-working version of cyanogen if you build it yourself... What a chicks me is that the Moto e and g 2015 both run cyanogen 13 (albeit unofficial) and officially support cyanogen 12.1 so I'm just kinda curious if anyone else is slightly annoyed?
No, it'll be here when its ready.
I'm happy enough using Xposed.
AICP is pretty sweet.
Here's a good way to stop development dead in its tracks...
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AICP is pretty sweet.
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Yeah, AICP is CM based so it has all CM features.
In addition, CM will be officially supported for this device when all the tiny bugs we have left are fixed. (Mainly the Sprint bugs)
Take your time Hash. I'd rather it take longer and be right than quick and super buggy.
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No, it doesn't slightly annoy me. But you making a thread like this may slightly annoy those who are in the process of developing an official CM build. Want one quicker? Learn Java, Android development, and help them out!
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Here we are with our Moto X Style/Pure Edition way after it has been released. We have been given no confirmation by cyanogen that it will ever officialy support our phones. Their is a semi-working version of cyanogen if you build it yourself... What a chicks me is that the Moto e and g 2015 both run cyanogen 13 (albeit unofficial) and officially support cyanogen 12.1 so I'm just kinda curious if anyone else is slightly annoyed?
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If you want a job doing, do it yourself. Otherwise, buy a phone that is already supported, or sit tight and wait in the hope that it will get CM (quite likely it will arrive sooner or later).
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Dear devs. Please ignore this thread... Most of us are grateful.
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Really? What a waste of a thread.
Want it here and now? Go do it yourself. Otherwise, wait in line just like everyone else.
no. cyanogenmod is boring. i'd rather flash another.
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Yeah, AICP is CM based so it has all CM features.
In addition, CM will be officially supported for this device when all the tiny bugs we have left are fixed. (Mainly the Sprint bugs)
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Sorry for the bother hash i was being an arse
One word WOW
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I second that. Wow. -_-
WelcomeToTheSkye said:
Here we are with our Moto X Style/Pure Edition way after it has been released. We have been given no confirmation by cyanogen that it will ever officialy support our phones. Their is a semi-working version of cyanogen if you build it yourself... What a chicks me is that the Moto e and g 2015 both run cyanogen 13 (albeit unofficial) and officially support cyanogen 12.1 so I'm just kinda curious if anyone else is slightly annoyed?
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Just another noob. Gots to get his post count up. I really suggest you rethink your current position. Only 3 posts and this is what you come up with. WTF is wrong with people like you. Why must there always be that one post that pisses me off and I am not a Dev. I support what there doing with donations when I can. I suggest you do the same, then sit back and watch the magic happen. Patience is a virtue. Thanks devs for all your hard work the majority of us appreciate it.
To answer your question, no. Not even slightly annoyed...
The only thing annoying is the OP's impatience. How completely ungrateful.
And .... 3,2,1 closed.
Going nowhere, fast.
Fin
I do hardly believe that Moto X style/pure might get N but there is no official news about it...
I tweeted Moto_Us and Moto_India but got same reply that
"We currently have no info.. For more info kindly stay updated"
Even Moto/Lenovo didnt make any announcement..
Whats going on?
Anyone has ideas what the truth is??
no problem ..custom roms here :laugh::fingers-crossed:
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no problem ..custom roms here :laugh::fingers-crossed:
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Who has made any custom roms or what guarantee that who will make it??
Cm is already working on it.
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guarenteed will not be a problem. lol. gotta love the devs out there crankin roms and ports out. #unlockedbootloader
Voted no only because I'm doubtful we'll get it officially, but as the other people have said... custom roms bro.
I think it will get 7.0 by the end of the year. It got 6.0 pretty fast, and is still pretty much the flagship of Motorola. People just lost hope because of the ignored 6.0.1 update. I'm hoping to switch back to a Nexus anyway so I don't have to worry about updates anymore.
https://www.android.com/phones/
Being one of the few devices on official android site I think means we're getting 7.0 pretty soon
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https://www.android.com/phones/
Being one of the few devices on official android site I think means we're getting 7.0 pretty soon
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That site has been mentioned before... It has nothing to do with Nougat, just Android in general. The fact it appears there is not relevant.
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I think it will get 7.0 by the end of the year. It got 6.0 pretty fast, and is still pretty much the flagship of Motorola. People just lost hope because of the ignored 6.0.1 update. I'm hoping to switch back to a Nexus anyway so I don't have to worry about updates anymore.
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But is it still a flagship with the new Moto Z's coming out? Way things have gone with Lenovo I'd not put money on it BUT never say never.
Well, if they abandon any real support for this phone in one year, I won't be coming back to Lenovo/Motorola. I'll just have to decide if expandable memory is still a deal maker/breaker with the next gen and go Nexus or something else.
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Well, if they abandon any real support for this phone in one year, I won't be coming back to Lenovo/Motorola. I'll just have to decide if expandable memory is still a deal maker/breaker with the next gen and go Nexus or something else.
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Agreed!
Android 7 will be there!!!
With X-Style there aren't any technical/hardware issue or even a minor reason for not supporting the Android 7. So with this the liability of providing or not providing Android 7 will be with Motorola (Lenovo). Providing with Latest Android version being a USP of Moto phones, there is very chance that they will not risk reputation with this phone by excluding the update.
In-case this is not done for some reason then my steps would be:
1) Root and install Android 7 rom.
2) Buy a new Nexus phone.
3) Collect Invoice of all my Moto phone (Namely: Moto G (8gb), Moto G (16gb), Moto E (4gb), Moto G3, Moto G Turbo, Moto X Style).
4) Submit the collected Invoice plus the nexus invoice to Motorola with update as why they lost a loyal customer.
*Infact I was planing this for the delayed patch, and made my disappointment by tweeting the same to motorola. Were they assured me of early notification of update.*
[rant] motorola sucks/how to kill a perfectly good device
Motorola/Lenovo service has been horrible both in replacing defective hardware and with software updates even though they committed to timely release! They will probably at some point release Nougat on this device but really how long will it take (see where we are with MM updates!!) ? And as far as custom roms are concerned we're seeing so little developper activity for this device that I think everyone has already moved on! This was my first non-Nexus device in a long while and I'm not eager to duplicate the experience. It's really too bad as I really liked the Moto X pure. :crying:
Ffs these threads need to stop. Yes the Moto x pure 2015 will get 7. IT WILL TAKE TIME release of n is rolling out give it a few months
Guys good news
https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_device_motorola_clark/tree/cm-14.0
Eta 3 Weeks i guess....
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Sagar_1401 said:
https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_device_motorola_clark/tree/cm-14.0
Eta 3 Weeks i guess...
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Interesting, but that's CM.
I think people on this thread are wanting stock.
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Interesting, but that's CM.
I think people on this thread are wanting stock.
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true that but we dont have an official announcement abt update but do check this
http://www.alphr.com/google/1004331/when-will-i-get-android-n-on-my-phone
http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x-style/general/pure-to-n-t3455057/post68785882
Silarn said:
Well, if they abandon any real support for this phone in one year, I won't be coming back to Lenovo/Motorola. I'll just have to decide if expandable memory is still a deal maker/breaker with the next gen and go Nexus or something else.
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The ZTE Axon 7 looks a lot like the X Pure, except with software support. They announced that they will be assisting Cyanogenmod.