Not to be completely left out of the spotlight during Mobile World Congress, Cyanogen Inc. has a few announcements to make. Firstly, the logo and website you knew are now gone, replaced by something with a bit of a sci-fi vibe. More importantly, the company has partnered with Qualcomm to make it easier for Cyanogen OS to find its way onto more devices.

As for the new "brand identity," you can see the logo above. There's also a completely redesigned website at cyngn.com. It might take a little while to update for everyone, but you'll (eventually) see that old theme is gone, as is the little hexagon logo the company has been using for the last year or so. The new brand identity (PR speak for logo, design, and whatnot) is, according to Cyanogen, based on the openness of Android, and the benefit that brings to consumers, developers, and hardware makers.

Okay, that's all well and good, but what about this Qualcomm deal? Cyanogen OS features and UI elements will be supported by an upcoming release of the Qualcomm Reference Design (QRD). That means a lot more to OEMs than it does to you and me, but the gist of it is that device makers will be able to implement Cyanogen OS much faster and more easily on devices powered by certain Snapdragon chips. Which ones? The Snapdragon 200, 400, and 600 series.

Cyanogen Inc. sees this as a way to get its custom version of Android on more devices in the mid-range. In the future, the Qualcomm partnership will also offer developers additional functionality on Cyanogen OS devices, but this version of the QRD is all about expanding device support. This isn't the end of Cyanogen's close partnerships with OEMs to make flagship Cyanogen devices, though. The company plans to do both to increase it's presence in the mobile device ecosystem.

The new QRD with Cyanogen support is expected to roll out in the April timeframe.