Pakistan Added To Android One's Slow Rollout

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QMobile A1 is another Android One smartphone that launched in Pakistan.

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[targetdrone]

Why does a $100 phone geared for the third world get a phone with a micro SDHC slot but the $500 Nexus 6 doesn't?

 

[velocityg4]

Why doesn't Google just change their installation system for Android? Just pack any release with all compatible drivers so anyone with a compatible phone can update and go vanilla immediately. Sure it would be a larger update but you could just have it delete all unneeded drivers after installation. Or it could have an updater program for Windows, Linux and Mac that installs the latest Android OS and appropriate drivers for the phone.

As for the problem of having all needed drivers. Just require Android phone makers to provide Google with drivers for their phones. If they don't they will won't be licensed for Android anymore and would have to try and survive on one of the OSes which combine to about 2% of the smartphone market.