For the purists of the Xiaomi brand talk about Android One It is almost a blasphemy, totally different and deprived of the many features offered by the interface MIUI. Yet the OS is experiencing a moment of glory, brought to the fore mainly by the advent of the first smartphones produced by Google, namely the Pixel series. Android One is a project born in the 2014, who had the mission to lead to emerging markets, and therefore to low-end terminals, a simple operating system, slender but at the same time always updated with the latest Big G. releases
Xiaomi and Nokia dominate the global growth of Android One
Currently this task has been entrusted to Android Go, which is aimed precisely at entry level devices, with “dated” processors and / or in any case poco performing and a RAM of maximum 1 GB. But apart from this historical preamble, currently Android One stands out on so-called top-of-the-range devices, but the real success is dictated by the mid-range in which Xiaomi and Nokia are king. In fact, the two brands say the latest reports have contributed massively to the distribution of Android One on a large scale, just think of the success of Xiaomi Mi A1 or the recent Mi A2 and Mi A2 Lite.
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certainly HMD with its Nokia is the one that holds the loyalty record, considering that the whole lineup is based on Android One devices, while at Xiaomi the merit of the capillary distribution goes instead thanks to the offline and online channels of the Asian brand. Perhaps the two companies are on the side updates, which do not always arrive on time but on the other hand is something that we can forgive by virtue of the unbeatable quality / price that they can offer the user. And the major experts in the field assume, that the 2019 will be a year in which we will witness a real explosion of Android One, as more and more producers will choose this OS for their technological "creatures".
