Google's initiative to bring a high-quality experience to affordable entry-level devices with Android Go made a pretty big splash at Mobile World Congress 2018. While the high profile devices from companies like Samsung typically steal all the attention at MWC, it's important to pay attention to emerging markets especially when Google believes it's next billion users will come from countries like India. Android Go is a super lightweight version of Android that optimized for phones with lower specs and a gigabyte of RAM or less so none of these phones are really going to blow you away in terms of numbers. Google has created less intensive versions of many of their apps to ensure that the performance is smooth on this much more mundane hardware and for the most part, you're not losing out on much with the go versions of their apps. The Android apps in Android Go now take up way less space. Google has replaced all default apps with Go Edition apps such as Map...
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