The Chinese hardwaremaker Meizu brings its Android devices now out with two firmware versions. One version is equipped with the own skin of the manufacturer, while a standard Android build is available as a download-firmware.
By two firmware versions want the Chinese hardwaremaker customers needs. That says an employee of Meizu’s own forum, says GizChina. The removal of the skin gives the software a different look and makes more free memory for storing data. In addition, the ‘vanilla’version of the firmware faster be released, because the porting is less work required.
All manufacturers are since Android 4.0 working with the faster release of updates. So it was Sony Ericsson with a test version of update for various devices, all were matters such as gsm, umts and wi-fi therein is disabled. Huawei, in China, a major competitor for Meizu, brought soon an update to its smartphone Honor.
Almost all manufacturers make a skin for their Android devices to differentiate themselves from the competition. This will add the manufacturers own elements, such as widgets, wallpapers, apps and services. Also some providers create own skins for devices on Googles mobile operating system.
Meizu is primarily known for its mp3 players and the iPhone-like devices. As presented by the manufacturer shortly after the introduction of the iPhone a copy, which is then only a year later came out. Meizu released in China this weekend, the Meizu MX, its second Android smartphone. In the first instance, is only a dualcore variant, a quad-core version should be in the spring appear.