The American phone manufacturer Blu stops with the creation of one’s own skin over Android. From the Android 4.1 update for its Vivo 4.3 will phones of the manufacturer are delivered with stock Android. That would be the battery life of phones should improve.
From now on, all updates and new devices with stock Android to be delivered, says the manufacturer in a press release posted by Engadget. Blu used like other manufacturers a skin over Android, but hopes that with the use of stock Android battery life, and interface is improved. Why that might be, is unclear.
It could be that there is also a financial reason behind it. The development of a skin takes a lot of money and with the use of stock Android is that will be saved. Of course, the software must be still on the hardware can be tuned, inter alia, with optimizations for battery life and performance. More and more manufacturers deliver phones without making any changes to the interface, but as far as we know hasn’t happened yet, a manufacturer that the development of his own skin to stop.
The first phone that gets an update without skin is the Vivo 4.3, a dualsim phone with a 4.3″ Super Amoled Plus screen with a resolution of 800×480 pixels and a dual-core-Mediatek-processor. That phone came out last autumn, at the Amazon web store.
