MediaTek: Up To 2 Million Android One Handsets Sold This Year

MediaTek, a name that is familiar among smartphone enthusiasts, has shown that they are pretty much optimistic with the initial response over in India to the trio of Android One handsets that were launched in the world’s second most populous country earlier this Tuesday, with the Spice Dream UNO possibly being the first of the trio fo be made available. In fact, MediaTek claims that we could probably be looking at a figure of 1.5 million to 2 million Android One handsets that will go on sale in India alone this year, now how about that? It certainly is an encouraging figure no matter which angle you look at it from.

The Android One platform was released by Google so that it might assist manufacturers in the production of entry-level smartphones that will not cost a bomb, targeting those people living in emerging markets. Since the future software and operating system updates will hail straight from Google, Android One models need not worry about being last on the receiving end.

While gaining quicker updates is always a nice thing to have, it is comforting to know that the sweet price point might just cause a secondary “explosion” in the growth of Android adoption among folks living in emerging markets.

Edwin Kee
Categories: Cellphones
Tags: android one, Google