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Android 11 Go Could Make Cheap Phones Up To 20% Faster (gizmodo.com) 35

Posted by msmash from the moving-forward dept.
Following the official release of Android 11 earlier this week, Google also has some updates in store for the stripped-down version of Android designed for phones with lower specs. From a report For Android 11 (Go Edition), the most important upgrade is just generally speedier performance, with Google claiming that apps will launch 20% faster in Android 11 Go compared to Android 10 Go. Meanwhile, when it comes to messaging, Android 11 Go is also getting a dedicated section for conversations in the notification tray, so you can see all your ongoing texts in one place, regardless of the specific app. On top of that, Android 11 Go is also getting Google's gesture-based navigation just like vanilla Android 11. Instead of a row of buttons along the bottom of the screen, you can swipe up to go home, swipe in from either side to go back, or swipe up and hold to see your recently used apps.

Also, with digital privacy becoming increasingly important, Google is giving Android 11 Go more granular security settings including the ability to grant apps access to hardware like cameras, microphones, or GPS on a one-time basis. And when it comes to apps you haven't used in a long time, Android 11 Go will automatically reset app permissions to prevent old settings that you've probably forgotten about from comprising your security. But perhaps the biggest change for Android 11 Go is that previously, Go Editions of Android were limited to phones with 1GB of RAM. However, with smartphone memory becoming cheaper and more accessible, Android 11 Go has been updated to support phones with up to 2GB of RAM.
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Android 11 Go Could Make Cheap Phones Up To 20% Faster

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  • What kind of phone are they talking about?

    Up to 2GB of RAM?

    What is this? 2015?

    What about phones with 4GB of RAM?

    Of course I didn't bother reading the article.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by hattig ( 47930 )

      Android Go is the version for cheaper/weaker phones, which are incredibly popular around the world.

    • Read the headline troll:

      Android 11 Go Could Make Cheap Phones Up To 20% Faster

      In case you missed it:
      Cheap Phones
      Cheap Phones
      Cheap Phones
      Cheap Phones


      -get help

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by cb88 ( 1410145 )
        Also if expensive phones would not also benefit from Android being less of a dog...
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  • Reads like a slashvertisement from Google.

  • Call me a crane... (Score:4, Insightful)

    by franzrogar ( 3986783 ) on Thursday September 10, 2020 @12:22PM (#60492728)

    But why, oh why!, can't just make the standard official 11 release that 20% faster and throw into trash the "Go" version which eats resources?

    I mean: if you're working on speeding things up... DO IT IN THE GENERAL RELEASE.

    • Re: (Score:3)

      by Merk42 ( 1906718 )
      Because there are feature sacrifices that need to be made in order to make it perform better.

      • "feature sacrifices" - what some might call features, others might disparagingly call useless bloatware.

        I use Maps Go on my Android tv box. The 'regular' version doesn't support zooming in and out with a mouse wheel - no wonder Android is a second class citizen on tablets and within Chrome OS containers when their own developers fail to implement even basic functionality.

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by Merk42 ( 1906718 )

          "feature sacrifices" - what some might call features, others might disparagingly call useless bloatware.

          Sure call it 'bloatware' if you want.
          The point is that you can't have it be exactly Android 11 but also somehow magically as fast. If that were the case, there would be no reason for the Go version in the first place.

  • How about 20% better. How about letting me delete all the crap apps I do not want.
    I have a new phone and the screen is filled with crappy apps I will never use. And the best I can do is move them all to a sub folder I can't delete.

    • Re: (Score:2, Insightful)

      by kurkosdr ( 2378710 )
      I am going to sacrifice the mod points I spend on this article just to say the following: You can disable all the crap apps you don't want, and they won't bother you again! It's right there in the app settings. Are you going to whine about whatever little space those apps take when disabled, when Android uses massive multi-GB caches everywhere? Are you going to argue for a user-multable and user-resizable system partition (which is what it would *actually* take to truly be able to delete those apps), thus n

      • You can disable all the crap apps you don't want, and they won't bother you again!

        Sometimes they get re-enabled after an OS update. But yeah, it's not like somebody died.

      • OK Granted you are right, found it.
        so it is there to find and I can turn off each one. Oh wait can't delete Music, or DUO, docs widget, FM Radio, EMail, Quick Memo+,

        OK You are kinda right maybe ;)
        • OK total 7 of 32 can be disabled. So at least those 7 are gone, Right!

          But then maybe they just do not appear on the main view controller. Does not mean they are not running, installed, sending what ever they want up stream.

          Guess I am just a suspicious old curmudgeon.

          • Re: (Score:2)

            by AuMatar ( 183847 )

            Actually disabled means they aren't running. A disabled app won't receive broadcasts or have services run.

        • If the "disable" button is grayed out, you can try to "force stop" the application and see if the "disabled" button becomes un-greyed. If it doesn't, it means this application is considered part of the OEM's UI (aka the OEM's UI might crash if it tries to start that app and can't because the app is disabled), so don't try to disable those apps. It's the same reason why you can't disable the UI app itself (in Android, the UI is also an app). BTW complaining about OEM UIs is fair game, so please rant on. But
        • BTW you CAN delete apps that the OEM considers part of the OEM UI, but you are entering "at your own risk" territory: https://www.xda-developers.com... [xda-developers.com]

    • How about 20% better. How about letting me delete all the crap apps I do not want.

      They already have this function. It's called "Disable" and it literally disables an app that is on the *read only* portion of your device from functioning, using up free space, or updating.

      I suppose you want more. I suppose you want every end user to have complete write access to the firmware of the device. ... As if crippling malware on the PC and the ability to really fuck things up is the one killer feature that everyone *needs* on a phone. What we really need is for the secure part of the OS to have a b

    • Comment removed (Score:5, Interesting)

      by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) on Thursday September 10, 2020 @02:05PM (#60493206)
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      • I'd agree on all your points : headphone jack, SD card, removable battery, dual SIM and buttons (or even physical keyboard !).

        But unfortunately there are also reasons to buy expensive ones : camera quality, longer updates, better screen, wider compatibility with LTE bands (if you happen to travel), and capacity to run large games.

        So I'm also waiting for a manufacturer which would build an high-end phone ... with actually more features, not less.

  • stop sending your personal data to 15 harvesting companies every time you tap? Assuming not, what else do they cut out to reduce wasted cycles?

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