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Android One: Software at It's Purest

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People often vary the choice of the smartphones they buy mostly based on hardware and the features advertised by the manufacturers. Most of these people generally do not pay attention to the software. The Software functions like the heart to the hardware and generally keeps the mobile device up and running for a longer time. Oneplus owes it's success majorly to the software on their devices. Apple has a greater control over the software on it's mobile devices as they are the only manufacturers of iOS devices. This control over software helps in increasing the longevity of the devices. In Android, Google being it's proprietor releases newest and latest software for Android devices. This mostly comes first to the Pixel devices produced by Google. Being an pretty expensive device, it is not affordable by all people. Google then released an program called Android One to cater to users of all budgets in the smartphone world. This program resulted in providing an good software ...

Rise in the Price of Smartphones

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With the increase in the number of features in smartphones, the prices have creeped so high that buying a laptop would be a more easier pill to swallow than buying a flagship smartphone. That said I would like to quote MKBHD 's frequently used phrase "Cheap smartphones are becoming great" which stands true to the fact that sub Rs.20,000 devices have become great like never before in the past. This has to do with the fact that consumers expect highest levels of quality, performance, features at the lowest possible price. India being one of the largest consumer base in the world, smartphone manufacturers fight it out to become the market leader in the country. Another leading tech reviewer Unbox Therapy in his recent video on Apple planning to assemble iPhone's in India has shared that the Indian consumers are among the most educated users of smartphones in the world and that it would take more than just reducing the prices of iPhones marginally to increase the sales ...