OnePlus has a new flavor of Android called OxygenOS : Xiaomi's new flagship smartphone sold out in 3 minutes

OnePlus has a new flavor of Android called OxygenOS:

You may know OnePlus as one of the fast-rising Chinese mobile companies — the one that made a name for itself by offering an impressive phone, the OnePlus One, for a relatively cheap price. One of the key ingredients of the phone was its OS, a popular modified version of Android called Cyanogen.

Late last year, though, the relationship between OnePlus and Cyanogen hit the skids when the OnePlus One was banned in India because a rival manufacturer had an exclusive deal with Cyanogen to sell phones in that country. That led OnePlus to build its own Android-based OS, and now it has a name for it.

OxygenOS will be the name of OnePlus' homegrown mobile operating system, which the company says it will unveil to the world on Feb. 12. In the blog post announcing the name, OnePlus didn't give much detail on how OxygenOS would differentiate itself, only that it would be "open, customizable, and free of bloat and unnecessary features."

Xiaomi's new flagship smartphone sold out in 3 minutes:

The sales of Xiaomi's new flagship smartphone, the Mi Note, are off to a solid start.

The 5.7-inch smartphone, which is considered an iPhone 6 Plus competitor in China, sold out in three minutes after the first batch went on sale in China on Tuesday, Android Central reported, citing Xiaomi's Weibo account.

The total number of units sold has not been revealed, but a Xiaomi VP said on Monday that there were 220 million reservations for the device. The next batch of the smartphone will be available in China on Feb. 3.

The Mi Note, priced at ¥2,299 ($371), has a 1080p screen, a 2.5GHz quad-core processor, 3GB of RAM, a 13-megapixel camera (coupled with a 4-megapixel one at the front) and dual-SIM capability.That's already on par with most high-end smartphones, but an even more powerful version — the Mi Note Pro — will debut in March, with a a quad HD screen, a 2GHz octa-core Snapdragon 810 processor, 4GB of RAM, and 64GB of storage.

Xiaomi is the largest smartphone maker in China. The company raised $1.1 billion at a staggering $45 billion valuation in December 2014, with investors that included All-Stars Investment, DST, GIC, Hopu Fund and Yunfeng Capital.

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