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Google Android Oreo Go Edition: Sounds exciting but many questions still left unanswered

Google's next big bet to connect the next billion is called Android Oreo Go Edition, a special configuration of Android designed to make entry-level devices exciting again. Although its first attempt to connect the next billion through a wave of low-cost, quality mobile phones based around the Android ecosystem -- aka Android One -- failed to set the cash counters ringing, Google believes, there's still hope. Only about half of the world's 7.6 billion people are online, according to Google, and it can't expect the rest of the lot -- especially in markets like India -- to look up to a high-end Pixel to get on-board. It's still low-cost, quality mobile phones that they're more likely to invest in, at least, during the initial run. "For billions of people to get accessible computing there entry-level device has to be a fully-functional smartphone capable of browsing the web, and using apps. If Android runs well on entry-level hardware, it will allow the e...