Android One launched in India in September with smartphones offered by three manufacturers. Google announced at the time that it would expand the reach of the program to Indonesia, the Philippines and South Asia (Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) by the end of the year. While Android One has yet to reach those countries, it has now landed in […]
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Google launches Android One program with three smartphones
While some 1.75 billion people around the world already use a smartphone, more than 5 billion do not. At an event today in India, Google unveiled its plan to put a smartphone in their hands. Having unveiled Android One back at Google I/O 2014, Google today announced that its new program will kick off in India with three new inexpensive […]
First Android One devices said to launch in September
It’s been rather quiet on the Android One side since Google unveiled the new reference platform for low-cost smartphones at Google I/O 2014 in June. The idea behind it is to allow manufacturers to offer cheaper devices capable of running the latest version of Google’s software and services and offer a user experience consistent with that of higher-end devices. Google […]
Dual-booting Android and Windows Phone smartphones coming this year?
A rumour surfaced last year that Microsoft was looking to bring HTC back to the Windows Phone family with an offer of reduced license fees and perhaps even a dual-booting smartphone that would support both Android and Windows Phone. Whether HTC jumped on board or not remains unclear but it appears that it was the not the only manufacturer Microsoft […]
MWC 2014: Microsoft announces nine new Windows Phone hardware partners
Huawei was not the only company to get an early start on Mobile World Congress. Microsoft also today held a press conference. While it had no new devices to unveil, it did announce that it has added nine new Windows Phone hardware partners to “broaden the portfolio of devices for consumers and introduce new price points to accelerate growth in […]