CyanogenMod 7 coming to Sony Ericsson Xperia handsets officially

Steve Kondik, CyanogenMod’s chief developer, has confirmed that CyanogenMod 7 (CM7) will be coming to Sony Ericsson Xperia handsets in its upcoming release. They have been working with FreeXperia team to make this happen and this team is now part of the CyanogenMod development group.

According to the Steve Kondik’s Google Plus Post, The list of 10 Xperia phones to get the CyanogenMod 7 (CM7) include

• Xperia Arc
• Xperia Neo
• Xperia Mini
• Xperia Mini Pro
• Xperia Play
• Xperia Ray
• Xperia X10
• Xperia X8
• Xperia X10 Mini
• Xperia X10 Mini Pro

Most these phones already run on the Android 2.3, with the Xperia X10 being the latest one to get this update. This is definitely a happy news for the Xperia X8, Xperia X10 Mini and Xperia X10 Mini Pro users who are still with Android 2.1.

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CyanogenMod founder Steve Kondik‎ joins Samsung Mobile

Samsung Mobile has hired Steve Kondik, the founder and chief developer of CyanogenMod. This news comes after he adds Samsung Mobile to his work on his Facebook Page. He has also confirmed that this has nothing to do with the CyanogenMod and he will continue working on the CyanogenMod as a side project.

Samsung has always supported the CyanogenMod, and they gave all the CyanogenMod developers a free Galaxy S II. The CyanogenMod was first released in 2009 with the version 3.1 for HTC dream and HTC Magic. It is currently available for 30 devices and the downloads have already exceeded 500k mark.

According to the folks at androidandme, he would not be blogging about Samsung in relationship with CyanogenMod, but he would be working on making Android more awesome. Hope we can see something new in the next version of the Samsung TouchWiz UI.

Via: Engadget