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Google's Press Conference went all interesting this afternoon in New Delhi, India and as everyone expected, the company made it's official round of debut with their first set of smartphones from their newly announced Android One initiative, that was previously talked by Sundar Pichai, Senior Vice President of Android, Chrome and Apps, Google, at this year's I/O Developers Conference. The new Android One platform will be made available to the consumers in the country for the first time, where today three of their previously announced hardware partners have unveiled new smartphones that runs over the Android One based 4.4.4 KitKat operating system, straight out of the box.
According to the man behind Android, over 1.75 Billion people around the world already have access to smartphones today, where else the remaining vast majority of population, which is well over five Billion in numbers, are not able to afford the highly priced smartphones from the market, which means they are only able to take advantage of voice calls, unlike people from the 1.75 Billion lot, who's rather connecting with their family and friends through live video conversations, social medias, making use of mobile mapping services from phone to find the closest locations and landmarks, even searching and surfing the web. So, in this regard, the new Android One initiative will help smartphone manufacturers to make high quality devices, which will be accessible to as much as people as possible, basically dreaming the next five Billion people to have an Android smartphone in hands like anyone else.
"Knowledge is a game changer. I've long been inspired by the Internet and how it opens the doors to opportunity. It provides access to knowledge, no matter who you are or where you are. For instance, it doesn't matter if you’re a Nobel Laureate at a world-class research center or a young student at a rural school in Indonesia, with Google Search, you have the same information at your fingertips as anyone else," said Sundar Pichai, Senor Vice President of Android, Chrome and Apps, Google.
As mentioned in their latest blog post, people in countries like, India, Indonesia and Philippines are finding it hard to have a smartphone, due to three reasons mainly, that is hardware, software and lastly connectivity. With the announcement of the new Android One, Google aims working closely with phone manufacturers and chipset makers, by sharing reference designs and also by pre-selecting hardware components, which will help the companies lower the release price for their new smartphones. The first three smartphones launched today with Android One are from the native manufacturers, Micromax, Karbonn and Spice (as leaked yesterday). Accordingly, the new Micromax Canvas A1 will set you back for ₹ 6499, ($107), the Karbonn Sparkle V at ₹ 6399 ($105) and finally, the Spice Dream UNO, being the most affordable one from the team, at only ₹ 6299 ($103), available starting today through countryside e-commerce websites.
As reported in their leaks yesterday, the three new smartphones official from Micromax, Karbonn and Spice will all share the same identical internals, expect the changes in the design construction, which will all put the fresh handsets in the list of middle ranged category, where each of coming out featuring a standard, Quad-Core MediaTek made MT6582 processor with 1.3GHz and four Cortex-A7 Central Processing Units and Mali 400 MP2 Graphics Processing Unit, a 4.5-inches screen of 854 x 480 resolution display with IPS technology, four gigabytes of on board mass storage (expandable via microSD card slot), one gigabyte of Random Access Memory, 5 megapixel primary camera on the back with a 2 megapixel front secondary snapper, dual-SIM 3G connectivity, built-in FM radio support, pre-installed Google applications and a removable 1,700mAh powered battery, running stock Android's version 4.4.4 KitKat. The company also promises us to continuously update the software on the devices directly from Google, for the next two years, consistently. These devices will be in line to receive Android L update first with the existing Nexus fleet, soon.
Indian markets will be followed by the bazaars of Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, later this year with the Android One treatment and many more countries to follow the line-up soon next year. And as a serious bonus, Google is now offering free software update downloads for the first six months exclusively for the users of Bharti Airtel, in order to reduce the data costs, alongside you will also be able to download up to 200 megabytes per month worth of your favorite applications, about 50 apps from Google Play, all completely free of charge. The new hardware manufacturers joining Google to make Android One smartphones include, Acer, Alcatel, ASUS, HTC, Lenovo, Panasonic from abroad with Intex, Lava and Xolo from India. Chipmaker, Qualcomm from United States have also partnered the Mountain View firm for the new initiative. To learn more about Android One, click here.
Source: Google
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