Mobile phones with 2 GB RAM must use the Android Go OS?

To coincide at the annual Google I / O 2021 event, Google has officially released a light version of the Android operating system (OS), namely Android Go. The OS is specially made for low-end (entry-level) smartphones with a RAM capacity of 1 GB or below.

After its launch, the search engine giant Google actually never pushed smartphone vendors. In order to make a smartphone with specifications using Android Go. But for the fourth quarter (Q4) at the end of 2021. It could be that the plan will change.

According to the document entitled “Android 11 Go Edition Device Configuration Guide” which was taken from the XDADevelopers website. Google is reportedly going to require all new phones equipped with 2GB RAM or below to use the Android Go OS.

Google wants to set a 2GB RAM phone to use Android Go?

This means that if the smartphone vendor is a cellphone with 2GB RAM capacity around Q4 2021, then the device must use the Android Go OS. Be it the Android 10 or Android 11 version.

The regulation itself actually has something to do with Google’s steps which have now updated information from Android Go. This information comes from the official website about last year.

On the official Android site, it is clear that Android Go will be made specifically for smartphones with less than 2 GB of RAM. Not 1 GB like at the beginning of its release.

Then how are you doing with smartphones with 2GB RAM capacity that are already on the market before Q4 2021?

According to the above document that Dafunda Tekno said, smartphones that have been circulating have no impact. So that it can still run the regular version of the Android OS, even if the RAM capacity is 2 GB.

Google’s New Rules Are Still Rumors

In addition, the document also explains that a 512 MB RAM phone is confirmed to no longer be able to run Android 11 Go Edition. Because cellphones with these specifications are no longer eligible to run all Google Mobile Service (GMS) services.

However, Google has yet to provide official information about the Android 11 Go Edition document found by XDADevelopers.

By the way, the document was published on April 24. There is also a possibility that the company originating from Mountain View, California, United States has made a revision. Where does not apply the rules contained in the report.

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