Elephone are trying to follow suit of some other chinese phone manufacturers being not afraid to open the source code of their devices to third party developers. Lately for example Vernee deserve to be mentioned with such practive concerning their Vernee Thor model.
So one of the main horses in the Elephone stable is getting this treatment and with open kernel of the Elephone P9000 the way is clear for modders and developers to start working on their own custom ROM firmwares.
If such information would sound interesting or tempting for you then you check the Elephone P9000 specificiations here and the P9000 kernel details here.
is this a good thing ?
Yes, indeed source open of P9000 will be a perfect step, i do believe.
Are they hoping that the community will create a more rich featured and stable ROM?
Fine step, it will help not only for P9000, for which customs are present, will be usefull for other smarts to build tree an build custom roms.
Their opening the kernel because they been having so much trouble with the P9000 running right, that they are looking for 3rd parties to bale them out.
Yeah, they still couldn’t sort out their bugs. They hired a backwater developer like Deepflex to work on their rom. (no offence to Deepflex) That’s why it still suck. Cynogenmod just laid off some developers, should hire them instead, will definitely see real improvement with proper developers
Doesn’t even compile right. Typical elephone stunt