A little later than expected, OnePlus has finally launched its much-anticipated Android Lollipop-based operating system, OxygenOS, for its One smartphone.

The China-based mobile phone manufacturer has been teasing OxygenOS since last year, after the company’s launch in India was set back: OnePlus had planned to use the CyanogenMod operating system, but Cyanogen, the company behind the CyanogenMod OS, unexpectedly granted exclusivity to another manufacturer in the country.

This expedited OnePlus’s development of OxygenOS.

Today’s launch will likely lead to the company replacing its existing CyanogenMod-based ROM across the board, but for now the official over-the-air (OTA) updates will continue to be CyanogenMod, presumably until OnePlus is confident it has a winner on its hands with OxygenOS and ironed out any issues.

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