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Android Go: Everything you need to know



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 Maps Go, Gmail Go, Google Go. If you do have Go Edition phone, it's not like you are limited from getting the normal versions of these apps either. You can still go and download full Gmail if you want it, it's just going to take up more space.

There were several Android go devices shown off at MWC like the Alcatel 1X and although the hardware of Android Go phones aren't necessarily eye-catching this one does come with the 18 by 9 display. Then there is the Nokia One and many other Android devices that made their presence as the GM8 from the general mobile, Lava Z50 and tempo go from ZTE but I'm expecting to see more android go devices from other high profile companies such as Huawei. The big drawing point to Android Go devices will always be their price.

The best part about Android Go is you will get the latest version of Android out of the box and the promise of timely updates that's not you can typically say about Smartphones in this price range. These phones aren't flashy but what they are is practical and cost-effective. Please let me know what you guys think about Android Go, so leave your thoughts in the comment section below. 

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