Business: A version without overlay Samsung, with a nude version of Android, was expected. Here it is confirmed with an early marketing on June 26, the United States.
outside, the device looks like nothing so much as a Galaxy S4. This is pretty good: it’s a Galaxy S4, the latest high-end Android smartphone manufactured by Samsung. However, the presentation of equipment manufacturers is not usual at Google I / O. .. Especially when they are already out for several weeks.
But Google quickly reveals its actual announcement. The Galaxy S4 is actually free of any Touchwiz overlay, typically found on Android smartphones from Samsung. It is equipped with a nude version of Android Jelly Bean 4.1.2 without overlay, no frills. Android and the usual Google services, period.
An Android “naked” for classical S4 Galaxyinterest is obvious: the device is already shaping up as one of the most successful among Android smartphones, and its power as domination Samsung are enough to make Google drool with envy … And developers, the focus of this conference Google I / O.
During his keynote, Google unveiled specifications: those of the Galaxy S4, with 16 GB of RAM. Features: a “pure” Android, therefore, but also the absence of lock operator, also open bootloader, and sales directly on Google Play
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giant, this is a new development strategy. He supported devices so far its “partners,” the manufacturers using Android – and that made it a success, and developed a parallel range under its brand, Nexus. Different manufacturers are rubbed up and LG Nexus 4, but each time, it was clear: it was the Google phone
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This time, it is indeed a Samsung phone, identified as such. Google seeks both to advance its ambition to develop units without overcoat, he has always supported to promote a reduction in the fragmentation of the OS. Indeed, the Samsung Galaxy S4 benefit right out updates of Android.
New Strategyother hand, it has to benefit the image of the much more popular than its Galaxy Nexus range. Does this mean he will abandon them, and redirect the developers – who are actually designed the Nexus – to devices made by partners on a “pure” Android
Google did not say, as he did not specify at the time of writing, so it could be part of a strategy parallel to that for the (maybe) Future X -Phone. It is however very likely that it will continue to highlight its Nexus on Google Play, and to initiate new ones. Would that price for their performance / traditionally excellent, compared to Galaxy S4 … to be sold for $ 649.
Galaxy S4 naked on Android will be available in the United States on the Google Play Store, on June 26. Google says it will be gradually extended to other countries. It is therefore likely leads to three types of devices in the end: the traditional range of manufacturers, from least to most expensive, a range of devices with Android naked, probably chosen the most successful, and a range of phones for developers in the line of Nexus. It would in any case a lot of sense.
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