Google is finally releasing the bare bones version of Android it showed offat I/O 2017 back in May. The tech titan is making Android Oreo Go available to manufacturers with Android 8.1, which is scheduled to drop anytime within the next 24 hours. This optimized version of Google's mobile OS was created specifically for devices with only 512MB to 1GB of memory. It was built to be lighter and to run faster on phones that don't come with big ROMs and the most advanced components money can buy, with core apps that are 50 percent smaller and 15 percent faster than their full-sized counterparts.
The suite of pre-installed apps you'll find on a Go phone include Google Assistant Go, Files Go, Google Go, Google Maps Go, Gmail Go, YouTube Go, Gboard, Chrome and the Play Store. Most of these apps are stripped-down variants with simpler interfaces and, in YouTube's case, the ability to load the lowest resolution of videos possible.
The holidays are getting closer and closer now that it's December 1st, and with the holidays comes lots and lots of down time as students, teachers, working professionals and everyone else in between will be headed into the holiday break. That also means there's going to be colder weather setting in and with all that down time and colder weather there's almost no better time to curl up with a good book. Should you be looking for a new book to read Google Play has you covered with the top five books of 2017, which includes The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck, and It by Stephen King which shouldn't be too surprising given the film remake released in September, and there were likely many people who wanted to catch up on the story by reading or re-reading the book before seeing the new film. The other three books included The Battlemage, Thirteen Reasons Why, and Ready Player One.