Android Go is a very cropped version of Android with which Google wants to offer a decent experience for use for terminals that do not have the latest specifications, such as those that are today. hui are launched on the market with 8 GB of internal storage or with very low-end Mediatek chips. In Europe it may not make much sense, because we even have Xiaomi terminals of € 100 and sometimes less, but in emerging markets, we will succeed "despite everything", of course.

As with Android One, public and the press first thought that launching a smartphone with Android Go was tantamount to presenting the terminal a very pure layer of Android or not at all change the camera application. He became his best badet, one that would guarantee an ultrajaba Pixel range. However, the reality was very different, since a filtering of Sammobile showed that the terminal that Samsung will launch under the platform of limited resources will come under Samsung Experience traditionally known as the name TouchWiz

This, which will not affect the wishes of buyers, may be a weak point for the user experience. Samsung Experience is still a slow layer in terminals with some hardware such as Samsung Galaxy A8 or Galaxy A6 +. It is likely that taking it to a less powerful terminal will eventually turn the lightness of Android Go into a heavy product as seen in any Samsung entry compared to its competition in BQ or Motorola.

The only way the performance would not be affected (as we've seen in recent years) would involve something that manufacturers have never done, just change the icons and the interface , without too much depth affecting the system. Neither the lightness of the TouchWiz Samsung Galaxy S5 has managed to put it at the level of the Nexus or Pixel considered by almost all smartphones more fluid since the Nexus One in 2009. In this case, in addition, it seems that there are applications like the Samsung Gallery or the resource manager that the company usually includes in the terminals.

Android Go, what is it really?

With Android Go there seems to be a lot of confusion and as we said, we generally think of being a little brother of 39, Android One, which is not the case. The thing is complicated when Android One, the former One, was born as a way to ensure quality in emerging markets with brands like Micromax in India, which, oddly, joined BQ. This, with a slightly modified philosophy, is what Android Go looks for.

Unlike Android One, which is not very editable, the manufacturer usually comes with a proper camera app, different from the one I've found. old Google stock camera, Android Go can be totally personalized as we saw it for the first time in the terminal of a Samsung who opted for a different way from that of Nokia 1 or Alcatel.

: Android Go is * NOT * identical to Android One and can be customized and customized to the extent that an OEM wants. https://t.co/V1U4o0OySE

– David Ruddock (@ RDRv3) July 3, 2018

Manufacturers do not choose to use Android Go, but is a limitation imposed by Google for terminals that do not reach a series of specifications that allow to have the Android that we all know.

In such a saturated and tight market with new players like KaiOS, with very decent Android terminals for $ 80, ] I still do not see the meaning of Android One, whose terminals n & # Have not a single good comment . That's a project that might make sense in 2012 before the Moto G or E and this may seem logical for terminals under $ 50, but in addition, there is no such thing. experience is so poor that there is no way to justify it to two years of 2020.

Even a Lumia 435, the terminal that led the race towards the & Lum 39 39 39 abyss, looked better in its context two years ago.