The Acer Launcher is very similar to
the old stock Android launcher found on devices such as the Nexus 4 and features separate tabs in the app drawer for apps and widgets.
But we're not talking about boring
old stock Android here.
If you are keen on trying something new rather than the same
old stock android and usual android skins, give 8X - 1000 a go.
Motorola offers up what is basically plain
old stock Android, and adds on some Motorola features on top to better the experience.
Not exact matches
Facebook has a special lab
stocked with low - end
Android phones,
old flip phones and weak networking to help the company figure out what computing conditions are like in parts of the world with limited internet connection.
Unfortunately the
old root solution that you have applied for
stock Android 4.4 KitKat system can't be used no more.
Most e-reader companies have
older versions of
Android because many of the top OEM companies that ship
stock devices have 4.0 on it by default, while companies like Onyx use the same firmware on all of their units, because its heavily customized.
Better to spend a few dollars more and get an
older (but still very good)
stock Android tablet from a recognized name.
However, the
older Nokia 6 with a big camera,
stock Android experience and a pricing of just $ 199 is the cheapest
Android you could get.
Some might criticise the company for not keeping enough
stocks in hand (as we pointed out, the quick sales of the Mi 3 were a bit of a double - edged sword, leaving many disappointed at not getting a unit), others might accuse them of dumping an
old device on Indian consumers and then arbitrarily stopping its sales, still others might criticise their «flash sale» method of selling devices, but the one thing that can not be denied is the fact that Xiaomi did pretty much throw a spanner in the works of established high - end
Android players by offering excellent hardware at a staggeringly low price in the Mi 3.
Announced the same day as the regular HTC One M8, the Google Play edition features the same wraparound metal design (in plain
old silver, not gunmetal gray or gold), with
stock Android taking the place of HTC's Sense 6 UI.
Google's Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones offer what most consider a purer version of
Android, as close to
stock as you can get, but they're close to a year
old and lack many of the hardware and software features Samsung has added to its phones over the last 18 months.
Having a near -
stock version of
Android allows
older SoCs like this to run cleaner than they would with a skinned OS.
Also,
stock android is simple and so lightweight that runs great on a 3 - year -
old phone.
At a time when LG and Samsung are relying more and more on Google's default
Android interface elements, and HTC has gone almost completely
stock, Huawei takes the
old - school approach of tweaking everything.
It obviously can't be long now until Big G follows HMD's suit, adding around 142 MB of protection software to
stock Android - powered handsets new and
old.
When it comes to the
Android OS, Vertu's gone close to
stock Android here, with only a custom launcher,
old - school - style notification shade, and a few widgets on top of
Android 6.0.1.
The
older Google Nexus 6P offers an even better display quality, larger display room, same RAM,
stock Android OS, a fingerprint scanner and lots of other goodies, but it available for just $ 499.
you can bash custom UI how much you want but the truth is
stock Android is behind custom UIs in terms of usability and in
old days custom UI was a problem because of the low specifications but now even entry level phones comes with 3 or 4 GB ram there no hanging in custom UI and for this reason custom roms are also losing their relevancy
It's not a soup you make by boiling down
old Android handsets — that would be an
Android stock, and please don't do that.
As most people know, the Nexus 6p is an amazing smartphone, and I have been lucky to have it since the end of 2015 and I can confidently tell you that a really good phone especially for a die hard
android fanboy eventhough it has
old internals, it is also fit for people that aren't looking to spend over $ 600 for a smartphone, it has a really good Quad HD display, an above average camera, a great build quality, amazing speakers and comes with
stock android.
Yet,
Android enthusiasts will recognize the classic pre-Pixel
stock Android aesthetic from the Nexus smartphones of
old.
It's responsive and fairly smart, with trace entry (available in
older versions of Sense) competing with the
stock Android Jelly Bean offering.
As the ambassador for
stock Android, the Nexus 6 should demonstrate the height of Google's smartphone experience, and while even its slightly
older Snapdragon 805 SoC performed admirably, real - world results were disappointing, due to lethargic camera speeds, average Wi - Fi throughput and poor game performance.
We're not sure whether we prefer it to the
stock Android task - switcher, but it's an improvement on the
old Sense 4 implementation to be sure.
However, the operating system is a bit
older than the competitors, but there is an all - new Zen UI on the top to give an impressive and fresh experience over
stock Android.
No details on the U.S. availability have yet been provided by the company and it's presently unclear which wireless carriers and retailers will be
stocking the product on the
Old Continent, with Land Rover only revealing it already partnered with some unspecified mobile service providers and resellers to offer the
Android handset this spring.
The
Android on these devices is not
stock and is customised by Samsung, so a two - year -
old OS and that too on custom Samsung UI.
Android Pay is available on
older versions of
Android, but as fingerprint sensors are only supported in
stock Android in version 6.0 you'll need this latest version to be super-secure when paying for things on the move.
This is a clear departure from what we see in
stock Android but actually does somewhat resemble Samsung's
older navigation buttons.
If you are running an
older Android 5.1.1 LMY47V build on your tablet and it is a
stock firmware, then you can skip the «factory reset» and use the guide to update the tablet without losing any data.
Google's Nexus 7 may be more than a year
old now, but it still has a nicer, 1080p IPS screen than the A10, as well as a much better (
stock) version of
Android KitKat for the same $ 229.