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Lenovo Switches To Stock Android For All Future Smartphones (ndtv.com)
Lenovo is canning its Vibe Pure UI Android skin in favor of the stock version of Google's mobile OS for its future smartphones, starting with the upcoming K8 Note, according to an interview from Gadgets 360 with Anuj Sharma, Lenovo India's head of marketing. From a report: Lenovo has confirmed that going forward, it will be abandoning its Vibe Pure UI Android customisation which ran on top of its recent Android smartphones in almost all markets. "What we have done in last 11 months is we looked at what we had in terms of software perspective. We have been close to the consumers and we saw what they were asking for. There was a certain trend and we have now decided to cut the Vibe Pure UI off from our phones. So you will now get the stock Android which consumers have been asking for," Sharma told Gadgets 360.
I actually think this is one area where they listened to their customers AND were able to cut costs. Why did they spend money to alter the interface a la Samsung and wind up with an non-updatable mess. Samsung does it to fuck the customer into upgrades.
Customizations can be downloaded separately.
Any of their phones have removable batteries?
All phones have removable batteries, they just vary on the effort required to remove them.
I browse on +1 so AC's need not respond, I won't see it.
It's about time. I wish all smartphones stopped adding bloat, but made their UI options available for download for anyone that preferred them.
I've never understood the time and resource investment made into duplicate functionality. If it was an improvement over stock it could be understandable, but most of the time it seems at best the no compelling change, just different, and often worse. Does less in some important way, or looks/functions amature like. I already have a firewall. I already have a calendar, email app, photo manager, diaper, whatever. These companies spend millions over time reinventing the wheel. People just download the gmail app anyway. Don't use their sync, use ours! Sheesh.
My Lenovo has a removable battery and two sim sockets. I use it for travel in Asia. The UI is horribly messed up though. They are right to dump their stupid bloatware.
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Limited? So you cannot call, text and install apps?
Lenovo makes Android SmartPhones!
They still do the same. My MotoG3 and MotoG5Plus are both the same way, stock Android with a few Moto apps (the FM radio is definitely a keeper).
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Android was suppose to be Windows for the Mobile. Where the OS and the software are more or less the same on every device. In essence an Android phone is the equivalent of the PC White Box of the lat 1990's.
However device manufactures, are trying to be the next Apple. However there is already an Apple, and they are trying to avoid on being the next Compaq->Gateway2000->Dell. Where they may get a boost then drop off the radar.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
>Android manufacturers can't differentiate themselves on hardware.
Yes they can.
Sim slots : More is better.
Externally accessible storage slot : Have one or more.
Headphone Jack : I hear they are popular among people with ears.
Replaceable batteries : This is a no brainer.
Bigger battery options : This is also a no brainer.
Hardware credentials : MFA sucks without it.
USB-C with full support for the power delivery specification : It's past time.
Physical isolation for dual personalities (like for access to a work network).
Stock Android is a good feature too, why don't more do it?
I should use this sig to advertise my book ISBN-13 : 978-1501515132.
Is there a manufacturer who does this list of things? I would really like the phone you just described.
Headphone Jack : I hear they are popular among people with ears.
You could've gone for Funny, but it had to get drowned out in a useful post :-)