Google’s head of business development for Chrome and Android partnerships Mike Hayes says that new Android One devices will be coming to market from a range of manufacturers this year. Confirmation came in an interview with The Economic Times of India, in which Hayes explained that Google’s low-end Android One devices are now “a part of the broader hardware strategy.” Underpinning Google’s desire to get low-cost handsets running its mobile OS into the potentially hugely lucrative markets like India, Europe, Turkey, the Philippines and Africa is its real goal: to get people using its services, so it can gather yet more data for…

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