It's no coincidence that the rise of India's mobile Internet and its Indic Internet are happening at the same time. There are over 300 million Hindi speakers in India and mobile devices are now adapting for these new Indian Internet users.
It’s in this spirit that Spice has released the first Android One Hindi smartphone — the Spice Dream Uno H. With everything from the keyboard, operating system and apps like Chrome and YouTube all set to Hindi as the default, we hope it will make smartphones more accessible for Hindi speakers, just as last month’s launch of Hindi voice search made Google searches more accessible for those who prefer to speak in Hindi.
For the web to be useful for Hindi speakers there also needs to be a wealth of Hindi content. Just last month with partners from the tech and publishing industries we formed the Indian Language Internet Alliance — a group committed to promoting the growth of Indic-language content online. Through initiatives like these we’re looking forward to more Indian-language content being made more available and accessible.
Posted by Caesar Sengupta, VP, Product Management
It’s in this spirit that Spice has released the first Android One Hindi smartphone — the Spice Dream Uno H. With everything from the keyboard, operating system and apps like Chrome and YouTube all set to Hindi as the default, we hope it will make smartphones more accessible for Hindi speakers, just as last month’s launch of Hindi voice search made Google searches more accessible for those who prefer to speak in Hindi.
For the web to be useful for Hindi speakers there also needs to be a wealth of Hindi content. Just last month with partners from the tech and publishing industries we formed the Indian Language Internet Alliance — a group committed to promoting the growth of Indic-language content online. Through initiatives like these we’re looking forward to more Indian-language content being made more available and accessible.
Posted by Caesar Sengupta, VP, Product Management
When will Android 5.0 Lollipop update arrive for Android One devices, it's been months.....
ReplyDeleteOne oddity however, is that while Google itself has indicated the default keyboard is set to Hindi from the start, Spice’s product page actually makes a point of saying the Hindi keyboard must be downloaded from the Play Store. RP
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