The future of Android ROM

Not only does Android offer free systems and a more cost-effective smartphone, it satisfies developers and users, but it also opens a new window outside iOS and WP7. iOS is a closed, complete and unified ecosystem, while WP7 is another iOS-like ecosystem created by Microsoft, and unlike Apple's location in iOS, it is a basic build of Microsoft's manufacturing system, which is handled by handset makers such as Samsung and HTC.

And what about Android? Google needs less control, license free, code open to everyone, you don't have to pay any price to get it all, whether you're a mobile phone manufacturer, a developer, or even a geeker user. You can even remove all Google Apps, change the default search engine to Baidu, and start playing with the digital baby, you can change it to whatever you want, GPhone, Lphone, Xphone, as long as you can think enough and act, The Android IPhone 4, which swept the web a few days ago, is a typical case.

Android is open enough to allow many developers to engage in the development of third-party ROM, and compared to the standard Android ROM provided by Google, Motorola, HTC, Samsung and other mobile phone manufacturers in their own products will be a lot of improvements to incorporate their own characteristics to create a special user experience, and the third party ROM development team will ask themselves to do better than all handset manufacturers. Most of the third-party ROM is modified to get more advanced features, easier to use the interface, better performance, and mobile phone manufacturers for their own services, the Third-party ROM will continue to increase the number of popular models of support, whether you use Motorola, HTC or Samsung mobile phones are able to achieve a consistent user experience.

The world's most well-known third-party Android ROM compilation team is cyanogen, they provide cyanogenmod support dozens of of Android devices, their site has more than 30,000 Facebook users praise, Alexa ranked up to 4,000, As a pure developer community This is a very good result. At home, in addition to a large number of individual developers in the spontaneous optimization of various Android ROM, the most well-known Third-party custom Android ROM includes miui and dim sum os.

MIUI is a project of the Millet technology operation, a derivative project based on CyanogenMod for two revisions, so they can continue to benefit from CyanogenMod's latest changes, including support for new features and new models, They are able to focus more on the user experience and the improvement of the detail function. At present, the official forum has nearly 300,000 registered users, is currently the largest third-party Android ROM community, they released a new version of the weekly and continuous improvement, they face the end users to collect various suggestions.

The dim sum OS is one of the projects hatched by innovative workshops and is also dedicated to providing a more localized use of Android smartphones. With the miui of the countryside surrounding the city route is not the same, dim sum os directly to the handset manufacturers to cooperate, but currently available only a few of sharp and Acer mobile phone products, the lack of a wide range of praise and away from the mainstream media, truth is to deal with the user analogy mobile phone manufacturers, new film dealing with too much easier.

How big is the market space of the third party Android ROM? There is no doubt that this is a huge potential market, unlike encapsulating Windows systems is the third party Android ROM is completely legitimate, this is more than the bottom of the browser portal, can be embedded in a variety of partner applications, Mobile phone manufacturers can cooperate to collect licensing fees, and even build their own mobile application industry chain, content, applications, services, information is a good way to try. But the current Third-party Android ROM is generally not deep enough, the lack of its own unique, unified experience and features, and even the version of a large number of Third-party Android ROM caused by application compatibility issues, from the enthusiasts of the small toys into the public darling, the future still need a long way to go.