Google teams up with the Spanish bq to bring Android One of Spain program – Yahoo Finance Spain

Madrid, Sep 17 (EFE) .- Google announced today an alliance with the Spanish bq technology company to bring its program of low-cost smartphones to Android One Spain and Portugal.

Android One arrives today in the countries of the Iberian Peninsula through bq terminal will cost EUR 169.9 179.9 euros in Spain and Portugal.

Android One is a program through which Google reached agreements with local manufacturers to put on the market affordable terminals with the latest version of the Android operating system.

Although the technology of Mountain View (California) introduced Android One in 2014 as an initiative designed for emerging markets, has now also begun to test it in Europe bq hand.

The Spanish technology designed A4.5 Aquaris a 4 4G phone, 5 inches with a resolution of 540×960 pixels, Mediatek quad-core processor and 1GB of RAM, battery 2,470 milliamperes per hour, 8-megapixel camera in the rear and 5 in the front and a guarantee of 5 years.

bq CEO, Alberto Mendez, noted in a presentation today in Madrid that the phone offers a “pure Android experience at a reasonable price” and that is the terminal of the brand that will count with the largest distribution He sold online, in stores and operators -.

Google ensures that phones that are part of Android One program will have a pure version of Android operating system and promptly receive the latest software updates for 24 months.

Sources Google have told Efe that have decided to bring this initiative to Spain because it is one of the markets with the highest mobile penetration and aims to speed up the peninsula’s economic transformation Internet linked to putting on the market economic quality devices.

So far, Google has not clarified whether Android One reach other European countries.

The CEO of Google Spain, Javier Rodriguez Zapatero, explained in the presentation that by 2017 there will be 4,000 million Internet users more than one thousand million today-and that mobile is the hub of development on the Internet.

Rodriguez Zapatero said every year from now until 2020 will be uploaded to the network users number equivalent to 15 times the population of Spain and Portugal together.

“I close my eyes and just see opportunities in the mobile world, we 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. (…) Is in its infancy and the opportunity is huge, “he said

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