[Android General] mohammad ahamad:
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In fact, the Neonado OS was developed not directly from the pure Android 4.2 but Lewa OS, which has been quite popular here on XDA-developers.

Now there are two custom-made operating systems specially optimized for cellphones powered by MTK chipsets, namely, MIUI and Lewa. The Xiaomi company conducted such optimization on MIUI because its low-end brand Hongmi adopts MTK6589 and MTK6592. Meanwhile, Lewa is a software company devoted to the localization of Android.

As the two redeveloped operating systems are mainly aimed at users in China, both of them only contain the Chinese and English packages as well as local app stores instead of Goolge Play.

The contribution of Nenonado OS, to be simple, is that it is a re-internationalized Lewa OS. The new operating system contains the Spanish, French, Italian, German, and Russian language packages besides English and Chinese; Google Play Store was preinstalled; and most globally popular apps are included, too, such as Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Pinterest, Skype, and Whatsapp.

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According to a friend of mine from whom I got the chance to try the OS, Neonado was made by a company called Axgio, which is about to release its own MTK-powered cellphone for all over the world. Predictably, the phone will run on the Neonado OS -- after all, no company does anything for nothing. The new phone is said to be named Neon N1, but I haven’t googled any official information about it, or Axgio, or even the Neonado OS. So the story should be about a new company and its first product.

Apart from all the background information, the Noenado OS has the following features, most of which were inherited from the Lewa OS.

1. Compared with Lewa OS, the user base of Neonado has an expansion of billions thanks to the 5 language packages added.

2. Neonado relieves you from the burden of installing indispensable apps, especially Google Play. As for other preinstalled apps like Facebook and Whatsapp, you can uninstall as you will.

3. Visibly, Noenado is an overhaul from Android 4.2.

a. On the lock screen, you can slide downward with different buttons to the home screen, dial pad, or short message, respectively; either sliding leftward or rightward, you start the camera; holding the home button triggers the torch; and local weather report is shown here, too.

b. Away from pure Android’s "home screen plus launcher", Neonado’s home screen includes only one layer, where you can drag an app to anywhere or overlap 2 icons to generate a folder, pretty like the IOS .

c. Pressing the blank of the home screen and holding it, you see a menu rise up, containing many widgets. You can add one of them to the home screen by just a click, and the size of it is modifiable.

d. If you keep sliding rightward on the home screens, a special tray will finally come out. First of all, there is a list of recently opened apps here. You can kill one of them or stop them all by clicking the broom incon to release the RAM. On the same icon, you can see the instantaneous usage of RAM anytime you need.

This tray is no doubt the real unique part of the Neonado or Lewa OS, a special part for saving. Besides the task killer, there are buttons for the control of mobile traffic and shift of power consuming mode. You’ll be warned if your traffic data consumption exceeds the upper limit you set.

You may also see a shield icon here, which represents Tencent butler, a Chinese homemade real-time security software.

From this tray, I feel that Lewa company has given great important to thriftiness. BTW, you can hold the home button to switch to the tray when you are in any app.

e. The dropdown canvas carries both the notifications menu and control panel. On the latter, the switches of 11 frequently used functions are listed, including some fashionable ones like barcode scanner. Of course this list is customizable – you can replace any of the switches by another in settings.

The notification function is very user-friendly -- you can add some apps to blacklist so that you won’t be notified any more when messages are pushed from developers.

f. There are three ways in which you can make a screenshot, clicking a button on the control panel, clicking another in the power off/reboot menu triggered by holding the power button, or long pressing the power and volume-down keys at the same time.

4. Some essential apps or functions are fantastically enhanced on Neonado.

a.	The Contacts app is a very smart directory, which must have cost a lot of sweat and passion of the Lewa team. Compared with similar apps, you can add more information about a contact, including instant messaging ID, personal website address, and notes. A contact can be categorized into a group and only one click is needed to send a piece of message to all its members.

In the contact information page, you can choose either to make a voice call or write a message to the people, like what you do on IOS 7; switch between SIM cards requires only a slide; check of call and message history is enabled here; and it’s easy to send the contact information of some people to others.

b. A fashionable feature is that you can start answering an incoming call just by putting the phone near your ear without clicking the answer icon.

5. The user interface of Neonado is a feast to the eye – both background images and icons are more vivid and crispy than they are shown on the original Android.

6. In China, the Lewa is well-known as a thrifty system in terms of RAM, power and mobile traffic consumption. From a three-day experience, I do feel this Neonado cellphone a little bit agiler than others with the same components, and the power saving effect is quite obvious.

In general, the Neonado OS has some spotlights that are easy to attract eyes, and I think many people want the ROM to flash. But Axgio just sent some samples to cellphone sellers for feedback, and I don’t known whether and when it will release the ROM. Anyway, when the so called Neon N1 is sold, the OS won’t be kept in cell.