Android 13 becomes lighter: the Go edition arrives, now with the Material You. Through a post on the official blog The Keyword, Google has announced the launch of Android 13 (Go edition), a lighter version of the Android 13 operating system intended for low-cost smartphones, those that can count on limited resources (not very powerful SoC, little RAM memory and little storage space).
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The Go Edition thus reaches its sixth edition, since the Mountain View giant had launched the first version five years ago with Android 8.1 Oreo (Go Edition).
Android 13 (Go edition) is official
Ten months after the announcement of Android 12 (Go Edition) and practically five years after the launch of the first lightened version of the Android operating system, the development team has announced the launch of Android 13 (Go edition), based (of course) on the latest version of the green robot operating system.
Below are the words of the development team, which tells the road made so far by Android Go and the key principles on which the development of the new version is based:
“When we introduced Android (Go edition) five years ago, we adapted our core mobile platform to power budget phones with limited memory and storage. This need is just as relevant today, with nearly 180 million people going online in the past twelve months alone. With the announcement of the release of Android 13 (Go edition), we are also marking a milestone: there are now over 250 million monthly active devices with Android Go. To better serve this growing pool of users, we have focused on three critical qualities: reliability, usability and customization. “
The main new features of Android 13 (Go Edition)
As anticipated, the key principles on which Google has developed Android 13 (Go edition) are reliability, usability and customization. Here because.
- Direct software updates (reliability)
For the first time on a Go version of Android, Google introduces Google Play system updates, thus ensuring that devices can regularly receive important software updates, outside of operating system updates. This tool, which will make the delivery of critical updates faster and easier, without compromising the remaining storage space on the device, will provide users with a smartphone that is always updated over time, without having to wait for the next Android release or a software update of the manufacturer to receive the news, both in terms of functionality and in terms of safety.
- Integrated intelligence and new features inherited from Android 13 (usability)
Android (Go edition) has built-in intelligence that helps you get more out of your phone. New features in the new version include the Discover feature, which allows users to scroll directly from the home screen to view a curated list of articles and other content, and some of the key features of Android 13, such as notification permissions, preferences of the language for each app and much more.
- The Material You is served (customization)
With Android 13 (Go Edition) the Material You, the design concept developed by Google in evolution of the previous Material Design and introduced with Android 12, arrives for the first time also on cheap smartphones. Users will be able to customize the entire color scheme of the smartphone to coordinate it with the background, having four color combinations extracted from it to choose from. The combination of colors, then, pervades all parts of the operating system, like the “non-Go” versions of Android 12 and 13.
According to Google, the goal to be achieved with the new Go edition is very simple: to provide more possibilities to current and future owners of an Android Go smartphone. The first new smartphones with Android 13 (Go edition) should do the market debut in 2023.
