Lenovo smartphones will all feature stock Android from now on
Starting with the K8 Note, all of Lenovo's smartphones will come with stock Android installed. The company is dropping its customized Vibe Pure UI in favour of an (almost) untouched version of Android.
The Lenovo K8 Note will come with Android 7.1.1 Nougat installed, and the company is making only minor additions in the form of Dolby Atmos and TheaterMax -- gone is the bloatware that irks users so much.
Lenovo's decision has been driven by customer demand -- in India, there was a particular clamoring for stock Android. As well as eliminating bloat, the switch to stock Android means that it will be easier to upgrade handsets to Android O when the update is released.
Speaking with Gadgets 360, Anuj Sharma, head of product parketing for Lenovo smartphones in India, said:
What we have done in last 11 months is we looked at what we had in terms of software perspective. We have been close to the consumers and we saw what they were asking for. There was a certain trend and we have now decided to cut the Vibe Pure UI off from our phones. So you will now get the stock Android which consumers have been asking for.
There's no more Vibe UI going forward and we are moving to complete stock Android for all our future Lenovo phones. This is a huge transition for our business perspective.
In addition to the ditching of Vibe Pure UI in favour of stock Android, Lenovo also confirmed that all of the K series phones it releases this year will receive Android O.
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