Google launched the first Android One devices a few days ago

Sep 17, 2014 11:09 GMT  ·  By

Earlier this week, Google pulled the veil off its first super low-cost Android One smartphones in India. I’m talking about the Micromax Canvas A1, Karbon Sparkle V, and Spice Dream UNO.

A few days later, the search giant rolled out the Android 4.4.4 kernel source code for these three new models, so they would be running the same build now, as announced on Google Groups (Google sources here and here). The new version contains a bug fix for the gyroscope function.

The three phones I told you about just above are the first batch of Android One smartphones, but more will be coming in the upcoming months from OEMs like Acer, Alcatel, ASUS, HTC, Lava, Lenovo, Panasonic, Xolo, or Intex, to name a few.

These smartphones offer a near-stock Android experience and will be in the frontline as Google launches new software updates.

So, if until now budget smartphones were doomed to sit in the shadows of older versions of Android, this will not be the case with the Android One bunch.

All three smartphones come equipped with identical specifications based on the MediaTek platform, so choosing one of them will be a matter of taste for Indian users, especially now that they all run on the same platform.