It’s long been alleged that the guys over at CYNGN have never really liked the guys over at ”that other ROM” namely Android Open Kang Project, which of course was the initial CM Kang project kicked off in November 2011 by Roman Birg aka RomanBB, however thanks to our anon tipster we can reveal that Roman is currently packing up his gear and moving himself to a nice new office in Seattle to work with CYNGN founder Steve Kondik. It’s also said that AOKP Device Maintainer Tom Marshall (tdmcode) who had previously worked on CyanogenMod will also be headed off to CYNGN to join them.
When Jelly Bean (Android 4.1) was announced at Google I/O all we wanted to know was when we would get our hands on that buttery smoothness. The Galaxy Nexus phone will begin shipping with Jelly Bean next week (it addresses the universal search Apple patent that is currently preventing shipment in the US), with the Nexus 7 tablet also shipping with Jelly Bean the week after.
It's amazing what a new look can do for a platform, isn't it? Back in January, we reported that CyanogenMod, the most popular third-party Android ROM, reached one million unique installs. Now, a little more than four months later, that number has doubled, according to CM's stat tracker. This is huge.