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this episode of android weekly is brought to you by domain.com so lots of good and interesting news in the world of android this week including the media darling Kurt and mcmaster the CEO of cyanogen when he's referring to how cyanogen is going to now end the relationship with one plus he said this without cyanogen 1 plus would have sold like one device in international markets essentially they built their brand on the back of cyanogen there he goes again using the media to help measure his Johnson speaking in Beijing at the global mobile Internet conference signage and CEO Kurt McMaster and Steve Condit its CTO have been discussing the past and future of the fledgling company after a fairly rocky relationship it may not surprise you to hear that signage inand 1 + R now parting ways according to signage and Steve Kondik the two companies ultimately had different goals for its software and as a result there were collisions between personalities as the two attempted to proceed with their own visions not to mention that the two stepped on each other's toes when it came to launching the 1+1 in India last year cyanogen had already signed an exclusive deal with the rival low-cost smartphone manufacturer micromax which temporarily banned the sale of one plus handsets powered by the custom OS in India colliding visions or colliding personalities Kurt McMaster the CEO of cyanogen has sought every opportunity to flame his enemies in public you may think something in private but to say something on a public platform just burns bridges of course another big reason for ending the relationship with one plus is that they wanted to partner with a manufacturer that could sell a lot of handsets internationally now there are rumors that have leaked that Sony is coming out with an Xperia P to a successor to the Xperia P which was a bit of flop but this one if true is certainly flagship powered the leak consists of an alleged render of the device the Xperia P 2 will reportedly feature a Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor 3 gigabytes of ram 32 gigabytes of internal storage a 5.2 inch HD display at 12.1 megapixel rear camera and a 5.1 megapixel front facing camera and it positively massive 4240 milliamp hour battery if these specs are true and the p2 is really coming the device would be a dream for many users the battery alone would put the Xperia P 2 and very select company now let's talk design the leak claims the p2 will feature a design that closely resembles the 2012 Xperia P with a chin at the bottom separated from the screen by what appears to be a metallic strip the big difference here is the almost edge to edge screen resembling the sharp aqua crystal with a slightly higher bezel at the top hosting the front camera and speaker now kindly remember that this is a rumor with nothing super substantial to go on just yet but if true that battery alone would be fantastic Google never being one to rest on their laurels is now allowing you to use google search to give commands to your phone and it's not just commands like send directions and find my phone it looks like Google is adding a slew of commands to let you control your Android phone from google search for now sadly the features are only available in the US though find my phone works worldwide so there's a very good chance the other commands will follow too if you want to try them out from elsewhere you can try adding and GL equal us at the end of the URL of your search query like this to set an alarm on your phone you just type set alarm and you'll be shown an interface that lets you pick the hour and the device you want to set the alarm on you can also type set alarm for 12pm to pre-select the hour now for those of you interested in the rumors surrounding the Oppo r7 opal contacted us to clarify some things about the teaser images opal reached out to us and wanted to clarify that the teaser image here actually contains several key words in Chinese that help us better picture what to expect from the Oppo r7 it is super slim lightning fast charging speed and has 2.5 d glass now to better illustrate this super thin design opal referenced the three previously leaked images of the device all but confirming that the images are indeed legit now quick update on don't be cute eat the fruit calm mr. 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