Samsung opens up Galaxy S III source code

Just a few days after Samsung launched their long awaited smartphone, the Galaxy S III, they’ve gone ahead and released the source for the Android 4.0 OS being used on the device. The phone comes pre-installed with ICS but it’s not one of the first smartphones to have it. However, the fact that developers can download the source code and modify it to their liking is an interesting thing. Samsung has recently been known to get closer to the developer community. Sometime last year, Samsung decided to gift the CyanogenMod team some four Galaxy S II phones without any charge. CyanogenMod is a popular Android ROM developing team that makes customized ROMs for phones and tablets. They are particularly popular because they are able to deliver latest Android updates to phones that don’t have official updates available to them, by their manufacturers.

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