OnePlus One being tested with an unofficial version of Android 7.0 Nougat

If you are still rocking a smartphone which is about two years old now, then the chances are that you will not get the taste of Android 7.0 Nougat. And one such device is the OnePlus One. Launched back in 2014, this was one of most hyped device of all time. With an unfamiliar invite system to buy one, not many people were able to get their hands on one. Anyway, a year later the invite system was ditched by the company and the smartphone is now readily available for anyone to purchase.

Talking about the software side of things, it was running CyanogenMod out of the box which was again ditched by the company for their own custom ROM called the Oxygen OS. Till date, the smartphone has received two major software updates, but one should not be expecting the new Nougat update for it, at least not an official one. Yes, because according to a recent report, the OnePlus One smartphone has been spotted on a couple of benchmarking website running the Nougat 7.0 build.

It seems that the OnePlus One was spotted on GFXBench, and Geekbench, both showing Android 7.0. However, one thing to note here is that these are not the official version of the software by the company. These are third party ROMs which were reported earlier as well. Hence if you are still using a OnePlus One smartphone, then you should not be too excited for this new in particular. But on the contrary, it is at least good to see that you can install a third part build of the software after all. So even if it is not an official one, you can still get a taste of the new software on your smartphone.

Talking about this third party build of Nougat for OnePlus One, almost everything works on the ROM except for the video camera and the stock keyboard. And the good news is that both of them can be fixed with an update maybe or you can completely replace them with some other third party software. Well, all you have to do is go ahead and take the risk and install the third party ROM. With all that kept aside, it is good to see so much software support for this smartphone till now.

The same can’t be said about some of the other smartphones launched along with it like the HTC One M8 or the LG G3. All of them have pretty much the same exact specs under the hood. Talking about the specs, the OnePlus One is powered by the Snapdragon 801 SoC under the hood. It also packs 3GB of RAM along with upto 64GB of internal storage. It was basically a flagship killer in more than one ways and above all, it performed well as it claimed to do. Now let’s wait and see what we get from OnePlus in future.

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