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Could someone please add General Mobile GM 8 (2018-02) and GM 9 Pro (2018-08)?

Those two Android One phones (available in Turkey) are missing. Thanks :-) --Neuhaus (talk) 14:11, 5 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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-- Timeshifter (talk) 22:13, 5 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The way the list of devices is currently structed means that it takes a lot of time to add a device properly. What are your thoughts on switching to a very simple, easy to maintain list like I did for the German version of this page? It only lists the name of the device and the year and month it was brought to market. --Neuhaus (talk) 09:02, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Please see WP:NOTPAPER. The article is not long. Feel free to fill out what you want for those 2 mobile phones. Others might fill in more information. Don't forget to add a reference for each phone saying that it is an Android One phone. -- Timeshifter (talk) 16:20, 7 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I added a couple of phones with rather incomplete entries. Feel free to add information (or delete them if you don't like incomplete entries). Better than nothing in my book. --Neuhaus (talk) 14:57, 10 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Neuhaus and Stevebow: Wikipedia does not allow unsourced info in articles. I removed the entries for Nokia 2.3, Nokia 5.2, Sharp S5, General Mobile GM 8, and General Mobile GM 9 Pro.

Unsourced or poorly sourced (see WP:RS) info can go on talk pages though. Others can then put it in the article with good sources. I do this often on various article talk pages when I don't have the time to find good sources.

I add references to the talk page when I find them. Finding the references is half the work, and so I am doing someone else a favor.

You must have read about these phones somewhere. So please add their links here on the talk page at least. -- Timeshifter (talk) 05:54, 11 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I don't agree that you need a source for every single phone unless there is a disagreement about its Android One Status. Anyway here are some product pages, not english though. Sharp S5 https://jp.sharp/products/android-one-s5/index.html, Nokia 2.3 https://www.nokia.com/phones/de_de/nokia-2 GM8 and GM9 Pro are listed on the Android One homepage. As you wrote, "Finding the references is half the work" which is why the german version of the page is minimal and if there were any disagreements about individual phones we could always add references later. --Neuhaus (talk) 12:03, 11 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It would be a never-ending food fight on English Wikipedia on a popular page like this one. With people adding and removing unsourced info over time. -- Timeshifter (talk) 08:18, 12 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free to post just the name of the phone into the table, along with a reference verifying that it is an Android phone. Others can fill in the details. Or you can help fill out the details later too. A specs reference site I like is gsmarena.com. Another one is devicespecifications.com. -- Timeshifter (talk) 22:01, 12 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

As I mentioned, the german Android One page has a very minimalistic list and it is up-to-date as far as I can tell. There have been no arguments over individual phones yet. Usually it's trivial to determine whether or not a phone is an Android One device so i don't see it becoming a problem either. --Neuhaus (talk) 09:01, 13 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I notice from your user contributions that you have edited very few articles on English Wikipedia. Things are different here. I have over 33,000 edits on English Wikipedia. -- Timeshifter (talk) 08:18, 14 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Let's see.. It's 6 months later and list for 2018, 2019 and 2020 is still incomplete (but not in the German version). Perhaps it is too tedious to add new entries after all? QED. --Neuhaus (talk) 09:24, 16 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

If it is incomplete, then fill it in. A reference is enough. Others can fill in the details. I see you finally stopped talking, and actually entered some more phones into the list with some references. Thanks. --Timeshifter (talk) 11:28, 16 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Current future Perspective of Android One

There is almost no visible marketing for Android One
Moto One doesn't follow Android One any more
Xiaomi doesn't promise new Android One phones anymore
Nokia is "last resort" and doing strange things
Fuchsia is around
Android One on twitter is doing nothing

So Android One is dead? And only insiders know? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:ec:c704:a67c:647b:f2ec:e3b8:20e9 (talk • contribs) 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Doesn't seem like it, there are new phones being added to the program by Motorola and Nokia in 2020. --Neuhaus (talk) 09:45, 16 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

But now it's 2022 and no new phone was released since 2021 (which saw a very few Nokia phones - see comment above). -109.186.252.233 (talk) 08:20, 5 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Please update this article. Every time I try to do this, whoever (Google?) has charge of it whacks it back. It's 2022, Google One looks dead, and no new phones seem to be offered under it's marketing. 2603:8000:8903:74FC:65CC:F54E:2C2C:CE9C (talk) 17:08, 9 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

As far as I know there are new Android One models released in 2022, e.g. Nokia G21. Possibly others. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.117.110.172 (talk) 15:38, 16 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Then why doesn't the official program page show any post-2021 phones? Can you source Nokia officially stating it's Android One? -Cardace (talk) 09:41, 5 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Chronological order. Ascending or descending

See my edit comment for this diff. "This is a major change. Please discuss first, and get some consensus. Other lists put the latest on top. See List of Intel microprocessors. Undid revision 966707707 by Cardace (talk)."

Cardace put the years in ascending order with the earliest year (2014) on top. The edit comment was "Reordered per Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lists of works#Ordering"

The guideline is for lists of creative works, such as lists of texts, discographies and filmographies.

It is not for lists of electronic products. People want the latest info on Android One phones. So the latest phones need to be on top.

Especially since Google does not provide security updates after 3 years from a product release date. --Timeshifter (talk) 09:37, 9 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Vague definition of topic

The lead paragraph starts 'Android One is a software overlay developed by Google', but the article then later implies Android One is an organisation with sentence starting 'On September 5, 2017, Android One and Xiaomi jointly announced'. I would suggest a better lead would be 'Android One is a programme within Google that developed a series of software overlays of the Android operating system for use on mobile phones.'

However the phrase 'software overlay' is not clear either so further suggestions welcome.John a s (talk) 16:55, 10 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Android One is no more? The article is outdated.

The most recent Android One phone listed on this page is from 2023. It seems this program is dead since 2021, but now its death seems more official. This article needs to be rewritten in past tense ("Google One was ...") and information added on when and why exactly it was cancelled. Nyh (talk) 08:24, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]