Samsung’s Android Go Phone Won’t Bring the Stock Android Experience

Jul. 4, 2018

Android Go seems to be an interesting prospect for a lot of companies, and Samsung is the latest company to join in the program. Samsung’s first devicewas spottedon GeekBench with the model number SM-J260G. Later on, it was discovered that the device would sport aQuad-Core Exynos SoC, 5-inch Super AMOLED display, along with 1GB RAM. However, while that was all about hardware, we seem to have new news regarding the actual software inside the device.

As reported bySammobile,Samsung’s first Android Go smartphone won’t be running stock Android, as evident by the leaked images of the smartphone that the company has received. The device will have the Go versions of Google’s official apps installed over Samsung’s usual Experience UX.

While that may come as a surprise to some of you, it really shouldn’t. First off,nowhere on theAndroid Go landing pagedoes Google state that its users will get the stock Android experience. Furthermore, Samsung has been pushing hard to improve the entire Samsung Experience. As such, it makes all the sense for the South Korean giant to stick to its custom skin than go the stock Android way.

As of now,there is no information as to when the device will launchand in what markets will the product be available.

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