Android Oreo (Go Edition) is Google’s trim down
version of Android for low-cost phones with 512MB to 1GB RAM. The company
announced the projected back in May and said that it would be available from
early 2018. The company is all set to launch the first phone in India in
partnership with Micromax later this month, according to a new report.
Micromax will be the first vendor of the Android
Oreo (Go Edition) and will soon be joined by Lava, Intex, Karbonn, according to
the report. The price of the first Go edition smartphone is said to be US$ 31. These smartphones are aimed at those who are on tight budget and
those who are planning on shifting from feature phones to Android eco-system.
These Go powered phones will have Pure and true
Android experience, and with Android Oreo (Go Edition), Google is ensuring that
Android runs well on phones with less than 1GB RAM and 8GB of storage. Google’s
slimmed-down versions of Google’s core apps like Google Go, Google Maps Go,
Gmail Go, YouTube Go, Google Assistant Go, Files Go makes this possible.
Qualcomm and MediaTek have already announced that
they are optimizing their chipset for Android Oreo (Go Edition), so it should
be interesting which chipset maker will be the first to power the first Android
Oreo (Go Edition) smartphone.
For now, we don’t really have the exact
specifications and features of the Micromax Android Oreo (Go Edition)
smartphone, but with the company saying that it will launch the phone later
this month, we are bound to come across details as we move forward.
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