In India, started production cost smartphones Android One – Vedomosti

In India, released the first Smartphones under the brand Android One, BBC reports. As defined by Google, is low cost, but high-end smartphones. Reducing the cost of production was possible by reducing the number of phone features. They produce three Indian companies ?? Karbonn, Spice and sales leader in the mobile market in India Micromax. Sundar Pichai curator of the project, said that the first Android One will go on sale at the price of 6399 rupees ( about $ 105) if they are buy without a contract with the service provider.

When buying a smartphone Spice Android One Dream UNO Mi-498 client has 35 GB of cloud storage Google Drive, and a few pre-installed applications, including Reverie Smartpad, Flipkart, Flipkart Ebook and Facebook. Also, they will get 10 GB of storage in its own Spice Cloud, reports ¹ CNews. C phone housing 132 × 67 x 9,15 mm with 4-core processor MediaTek 1.3 GHz, 4.5-inch IPS-display with a resolution of 854 × 480 pixels and the graphics controller Mali-400 GPU and firmware Android 4.4. 4 KitKat. The amount of RAM ?? 1 GB built-in volume ?? 4 GB, of which the user can

use a little more than half. On the smartphone has a 5 megapixel rear camera with LED flash that allows you to record video in Full HD, and the front camera is 2 megapixels. The smartphone has two slots for SIM-cards, supports 3G HSPA +, Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g / n, Bluetooth 4.0 and GPS, and it has a radio, working in a range FM, transmits CNews. Capacity lithium-polymer battery is 1700 mAh, claimed battery life ?? up to 17 hours of talk time on 2G networks and up to 160 hours of standby time.

First Android One will be sold in India, then this smartphone will appear in the markets of Indonesia, the Philippines, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. While running it to Western markets the company has no plans, but this possibility is not completely ruled out, said Sundar Pichai.