Cherry Mobile has confirmed that they are working on
a new smartphone that runs on Android Oreo (Go Edition).
This is a version of Android built specifically for
very affordable smartphones. Google promises that it will run smoothly even on
devices with as little as 1GB of RAM and 8GB of storage. There’s a rumor in
India that Google, Micromax and Intex among others will introduce an Android
Oreo (Go Edition) smartphone that costs US$ 39.
A quick look at the latest Cherry Mobile phones in
this price range reveals devices with mostly just 512MB of RAM. The software
can still run smoothly with this RAM but a whole gigabyte would be better.
One of the reasons why Android Oreo (Go Edition)
uses lesser resources is the use of Lite version of apps such as Facebook Lite,
Google Assistant Go, Skype Lite and others. These are highlighted in the Google
Playstore as Recommended Apps for Android (Go Edition).
Google also has data and storage saving apps such as
Datally, Files Go and Chrome’s built-in data saver.