Until now, some lower-end Android phones couldn\u2019t benefit from more recent Android releases due to memory constraints.
\nThe latest Android 4.4, called Kit Kat, can run comfortably on the 512MB of RAM devices that are popular in the widest part of the world, specially in China and other developing countries, bringing the latest goodies in Android 4.4 within reach for the next billion smartphone users.<\/p>\n
Facebook also is actively pushing for the price reduction of the mobile data tariffs in order to develop the Internet.org initiative announced by Zuckerberg\u2019s company last August. Facebook\u2019s Internet.org is aimed at bringing connectivity to the 5Bn people around the world currently without access to the Net, and to achieve this, connected mobile devices and smartphones are to play a central role.<\/p>\n
\u201cBuilding a platform that makes mobile phones accessible for everyone has always been at the heart of Android. With KitKat, we\u2019ve slimmed down Android\u2019s memory footprint by doing things like removing unnecessary background services and reducing the memory consumption of features that you use all the time,\u201d explained Google. And it has done this not only within Android but across other Google services like Chrome and YouTube.<\/p>\n
Far beyond the \u201cdemocratic\u201d approach and origins of both companies, the truth is that developing countries and new smartphone adopters, usually chosing low range devices, show themselves as the main drivers for growth for Google\u2019s Android and Facebook.<\/p>\n
The less RAM required, the lowest price for devices<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n RAM (or memory) is one of the most expensive parts of a phone, that\u2019s why reducing the RAM requirements contributes to enhance the experience in lower range smartphones making it available for a widest range of users, specially for low budget ones, supporting the reduction of the digital mobile breach between just phone and smartphone owners. This surely will positively impact the pace of economic evolution in developing countries, specially in China and other nations where 4G is being rolled out even before the 3G is completely implemented.<\/p>\n Once widespread the use and penetration of smartphones in developed countries. This will surely increase the penetration of this kind of devices in developing countries as low cost and second hand smartphones are made available in them. In fact, following the latest Kantar World Panel, Android is currently the most used operative system in mobile phones around the world reaching a 70.5% sales share in China and the 60.% in Mexico as of July 2013.<\/p>\n The price of devices is one problem, but not less that of data tarifs<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe internet hasn\u2019t penetrated around the world as devices are too expensive, data costs are expensive, and the connectivity network is not global,\u201d Taro Kodama Responsible for the social network\u2019s business at Facebook Japan said recently at the Ericsson Business Innovation Forum held in Tokyo.<\/p>\n \u201cData is very expensive and people want to use Facebook but of course they have to buy food and water first,\u201d he said, and continued:\u201dInternet.org is something that gives people opportunity.\u201d\u2026\u201d \u201cWe have completed the 1% of our journey\u201d, but, he underscored that Facebook needs to work with partners to develop the Internet.org initiative.<\/p>\n Image over the headline.-<\/strong>Android 4.4 Kit Kat, image \u00a9 Google -left-. Internet.org, image \u00a9 Facebook.<\/span><\/p>\n Related Eastwind links<\/span>:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Microsoft, to buy Nokia mobile business and more Until now, some lower-end Android phones couldn\u2019t benefit from more recent Android releases due to memory constraints. The latest Android 4.4, called Kit Kat, can run comfortably on the 512MB of RAM devices that are popular in the widest part of the world, specially in China and other developing countries, bringing the latest goodies in …<\/p>\n
\nZTE and other Chinese companies have understood well the need for lowering the prices of the smartphones to make them available for a higher number of \u201cnot only wallets, but purses.\u201d<\/p>\n
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