Google's Android One Phones Arrive In Philippines

Google launched the Android initiative programme in Philippines. Android One is Google’s global initiative to bring low-cost and respectable smartphone in developing countries like India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sril Lanka and Indonesia.

The search giant revealed that Cherry Mobile and MyPhone as its OEM partners that will bring Android One phones for the Phillipines market.

The new Android handset include Cherry Mobile One and MyPhone Uno. The handsets will be available in the coming weeks. Both the devices runs Android Lollipop 5.1 which is the latest version of Android.

Phillipines Smart and Sun mobile telecom operators will offer upto 100MB per month for six months to provide free OTA updates as well as 200MB per month for app downloads from Google play store.

The Cherry One and MyPhone UNO handsets will share the same specs as the other Android One smartphones.

The handsets will feature 4.5-inch FWVGA display with 480x854 pixels screen resolution. It is powered by 1.3GHz quad-core processor. It packs 1GB RAM and houses 8GB inbuilt storage [microSD card support upto 32GB]. It is equipped with 5-megapixel rear camera and 2-megapixel front facing camera. It is powered by 1700mAh battery and has Dual-SIM support.