Presented just over a year ago at the Google I/O conference, and launched in India in the fall of 2014, Android One is an affordable standard created by Google for Android systems with emerging markets in mind. After Asia (Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Nepal, the Philippines and Sri Lanka), Android One phones will roll out across Europe via Turkey and General Mobile. Android One smartphones are different in that they run a simplified version of the stock Android operating system, with minimum hardware requirements and without the often extensive vendor-specific modifications that many smartphone vendors apply. The General Mobile 4G planned for Turkey would be a smartphone operating Android Lollipop, equipped with a 5 inch HD screen, a 13 MP camera and 2GB of RAM, specs which justify a higher price (€260) than the phones destined for the Asian markets (around €100).



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