The best of Google’s Android is coming to cheap feature phones – Quartz

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As it stated in About 83% of the world's four billion smartphones run on Google's Android operating system, making it some of the most influential code of our generation. But fewer people are buying smartphones for the first time in a decade, and the market for cheaper feature phones has started to grow again. extremely Google is going after feature phones, too. As a part of the deal, the stripped-down feature phones going to offer Google apps like Assistant, Maps, YouTube, and Google Search. Google Assistant, the company's virtual personal assistant embedded in flagship products like the Pixel phone and Pixelbook laptop, could be a challenge for feature phones by slower processors.

Samsung Galaxy S9 sales are slumping and that's a problem for all premium Android phones

And that's a problem, not just for Samsung but for all premium Android phone makers. But it's becoming increasingly clear that consumers aren't wowed by premium Android phones anymore. And unless 2019 brings some serious innovation, the buzz around premium Android phones may slip amethod forever. And I'm not sure the market is there for a premium Android phone that costs that much. It's not that premium doesn't matter anymore, but the line between the premium Android phones and the mid-range is getting thinner and thinner.

Some cheap Android phones are being sold with preinstalled malware

according to Preinstalled malware is probably not something you signed up for the time you decided to purchase an affordable Android device. that means they're even less equipped to understand and handle malware than tech-savvy users that continue might fall for malware scams despite their experience. Upstream says that a number of cheap Android phones that are purveyed in markets including Brazil, Egypt, Myanmar, and South Africa contain malware that can robber consumer data and even money. Furthermore, it identified GMobi as the advertising firm in Taiwan that is gathering consumer data from the devices purveyed in these emerging markets. And GMobi software is preinstalled on devices made by a dozen Android makers including well-known brands like Huawei, Xiaomi, and Blu.