YouTube and other apps will not be available for some Android phones
Google announced that as of September 27, mobile devices with Android 2.3.7 will not allow access to users email accounts and other applications
The internet giant recently announced that users who have cell phones with Android 2.3.7 or lower will not be able to log into their Google email account, which means that they will not have access to the YouTube, Google Maps and Play Store applications either, where most apps are downloaded.
The information was provided by the company, through a statement, where it explained that some Android phones will be very inefficient with the new functions that will be available in the operating system as of September 27.
Devices with version 2.3.7 were launched on the market in September 2011. They have been operating for 10 years, so they are considered by the company too old for the processing of some services.
Zak Pollack, a member of the Google support team, explained: “If you log into your device after September 27, you may get username or password errors when you try to use Google products and services such as Gmail, YouTube and Maps.”
Some reports indicate that currently only 0.2 % of active Android devices are versions lower than 4.0. However, when comparing the number of mobiles that use Google software, for April of this year, it is concluded that “it exceeds three billion devices in the world, which represents 72.9 % of the total number of devices,” according to figures from Statcounter.
M. Rodríguez
Source: elcomercio.com
