Gadgetory

it is exciting to see the impact phones have on people's lives but it's disappointing that only less than ten percent of the population have access to smartphones we want to change that so we've been working hard with our ecosystem for on a very important initiative which we call Android one so let me talk to you about Android one what we are doing for the first time if you look at all the OEMs in these countries each of them has to reinvent the wheel and in a fast-paced mobile industry they have to build a new smartphone within nine months so we want to pool resources and help everyone so we are working on a set of hardware reference platforms we identify the components which go into a next-generation smartphone these are high-quality affordable smartphones we qualify vendors so that we provide a turnkey solution for OEMs to more easily build a smartphone in addition to hardware we are working on software as well so the software on Android one is the same software you see running on stock android nexus phones and Google Play edition phones in addition through Play we allow om's and carriers to add locally relevant applications on the device which uses a full control over and finally we provide full automatic updates all the software and Android one comes from google so we will keep them updated just like we do with Nexus and Google Play edition phones let's take a look at one example device which we are working on so this is a device with micromax you can see there's a 4.5 inch screen it has features which matters to a country like India dual sim removable SD cards and FM radio I'm used to cutting edge phones and I've been using this phone for a while and it is really good and it costs less than hundred dollars we are working with many partners we're going to be launching this around the world but we start this year in India and we are launching this with three OEMs in India in the fall of this year micromax karbonn and spice we are also working with we are working with carriers in these markets to provide affordable connectivity packages with these devices what we are excited is this is a leverage turnkey solution so that at scale we can bring high-quality affordable smartphones so that we can get the next billion people access to these devices and we can't wait to see the impact that you do that