Six months ago I was choosing a phone for myself and my choice fell on the budget model Flame Explay, where the Yandex.Kit firmware was installed. In all respects, the phone was excellent for its price of 5000 rubles, and the young firmware from the domestic search engine called to support the manufacturer, in the hope that soon many applications will be adapted for Yandex.Store and everything will be fine.
But time passed and from time to time I was faced with the fact that I could not install any necessary application. Either I could not get myself a free guide in the museum, then I could not connect to the action camera - Yandex.Kit confidently refused me all applications without a million audience, and in early May Yandex completely closed the Yandex.Kit project, so that something had to be done urgently with my phone.
* Chinese programs for Android from Syma and HT quadcopters on Flame Explay phone
It should be noted that I am now busy developing a service for choosing quadrocopters and I need to test online broadcasting from my phone, and for these purposes I need either a full-fledged android or an iPhone. The Chinese, alas, do not write to other platforms. So there was only one way out - to reflash your phone, putting a normal Android there.
In general, it turned out to be not so difficult if you know what software to use and where to get it. Before starting, I recommend formatting the flash drive in your phone so that there are no problems and of course save all data (phones, photos, etc.), since everything will be deleted.
In total we need 4 files, you can immediately download them and put them in the root of your flash drive (which is in the phone):
1. The AOSP firmware itself (Android, as Google made it ...)
2. Mobileuncle MTK Tools - to run the flashing (right on your phone)
3. Framaroot - to get root access (full access, that is)
4. Custom recovery (for example this)
If you do not have an account on the forum w3bsit3-dns.com/forum, then get it to download the files.
We also need some application for installing .apk files, I entered “APK” in Yandex.Store in the search and found APK Installer (In the yandex store it is called a little differently, but it has more than 1000 installations and there is no other similar , so don't get confused).
Then we act like this:
1.Using the APK Installer application, find the Framaroot program file in the root of the flash drive. The phone will scold, they say, it is not allowed to install third-party applications and will throw it to where you need to put a tick in front of "Unknown sources". After that, the program is installed quietly.
We do not install Mobileuncle MTK Tools yet, otherwise it will not receive Root access
2. We go to Framaroot, by default we leave "Install SuperSu", select the last Barahir method and see: "Success :) ... Root rights are installed. You must reboot your device. "
We reboot the phone.
4.Using the APK Installer application, find the Mobileuncle MTK Tools program file in the root of the flash drive. Install.
5. Go to Mobileuncle MTK Tools. When you first log in, the phone should ask you for full access - we allow.
6. We are looking for "Recovery Recovery". Click.
7. At the beginning of the list, select the recovery that was uploaded to the root (if it sees only from the Internet, then it was put in the wrong place)
8. Reboot in "Recovery" mode, the phone will ask where to find ZIP-firmware - show it. And the installation has begun.
…
If you get an error like "I can't open the file":
1. Reboot
2. Go back to Mobileuncle MTK Tools
3. Select "Firmware update (Easy update from sdcard)"
4. Confirm the correctly found firmware file and launch it.
That's it, in a few seconds you will see an unusual "Android" on your phone, but in order to use it as conveniently as before, I recommend finding the Yandex.Shell application in Google Play and in a couple of seconds you will see the familiar interface:
So what we end up with is the same phone, only on an upgradeable platform and with full access to Google Play apps. It is worth noting that now I am really happy with my phone, a good large screen and sufficient performance have been complemented by high-quality software and, I think, it has become a really good offer for my little money, and in particular in order to use it as a monitor for online broadcasts from quadcopters.
Thank you for reading, I hope my experience will be useful to you and many thanks to the guys from the w3bsit3-dns.com forum, who posted all the programs for free.
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Convenient and intuitive interface that makes it easier and more enjoyable to work with an Android device. It takes very little time to customize the screens. The interface is able to automatically distribute widgets and programs across screens. Useful and necessary widgets can be arranged on one screen - one glance will be enough for you to keep abreast of current city events, weather and traffic situation.
The Yandex.Shell address book contains the phone numbers of organizations. Just enter a query - for example "restaurant" - and the built-in search will show the phone number and address of a nearby restaurant. If you receive a call from an unknown number, Shell will check the availability of this number in the database. And if this number belongs to an organization, then you will see its name in the call log.
Improvements compared to J. Shell:
T9 search has appeared in the dialer. It's good. But! In such an implementation, the dialer window would not hurt to combine with the Journal. And make the dial pad collapsible-expandable.
In the Journal, the display of the SIM cards, from / to which the call was made, has finally appeared (relevant for dvuhsimochnikov)
In the bottom bar, you can create folders
Deterioration:
Lost App Drawer
Remained unchanged:
We didn't make a transparent status bar
The position of the Yandex team on this launcher:
1) this version of the shell is "leaked" from the beta of the kit, and is not supported outside the official versions of the kit and will not be supported.
2) we read bug reports and wishes, but we should not expect any reaction from us, because see point 1.
An operating system for smartphones and tablets developed from the open source Android. A former member of the Yandex.Kit development team announced the closure of the Rusbase project. The information was confirmed by an employee of the partner company.
According to the same source, the Kit development team has been disbanded, and its members are scattered on other projects. In addition, some of the developers of "Kit" left the company. In April of this year, the team that worked on the design of Yandex.Kit, posted on Facebook record "Goodbye, Yandex".
The core of the team working on the project was made up of employees of the St. Petersburg company SPB Software acquired by Yandex in 2011. The studio specialized in complex software products for mobile platforms, including the alternative SPB Shell for Android.
Yandex representatives deny that the project was closed:
“We launched Yandex.Kit on February 19, 2014. Last year, we agreed to preinstall Yandex.Kit on Explay, Huawei, Smarto, DEXP devices, - the press service of Yandex reported, - Now this product is not actively developing, including because of opposition from Google. At the moment, as far as we know, some Smarto and DEXP tablets are still on sale on Yandex.Kita. "
In February of this year, Yandex filed an application with the Federal Antimonopoly Service, demanding that Google be checked for violations of the antimonopoly laws of Russia. Yandex believes that Google is violating the principle of free competition in the Android smartphone market, as it puts pressure on manufacturers who want to use their firmware options. In mid-April, the FAS granted Google's petition to postpone the consideration of the case - it is expected that the next meeting of the commission on this issue will take place in the second half of May. Yandex's statement was supported by the FairSearch alliance (includes Microsoft, Nokia, Oracle and others), which back in 2013 called on the European Antimonopoly Commission to consider a proposal to separate the Android operating system from Google.
In April this year, the European Commission sent the search giant an official statement of claims - the document claims that Google is using its dominant position in the Internet search market in the European Economic Area (EEA) to promote its own services for the sale of goods and services. If Google is proven guilty, then the corporation faces a fine of 10% of its annual revenues (about $ 6 billion).
For Yandex, the value of Whale was to replace all the pre-installed Google services with the corresponding Yandex services (maps, browser, calendar, etc.). Google Play is replaced with Yandex.Store, and Yandex.SpeechKit is used instead of Google Voice. The company needed its own mobile operating system, as the sharp rise in sales of Android smartphones in the Russian market in 2012 began to threaten the dominance of the company's services in the CIS markets and Yandex's search revenue. In 2010, Android occupied an 11% share in Russia, in 2011 the share increased to 29%, and in 2012 - to 58% (data from J’son & Partners Consulting). In 2014, Android was installed on 86% of all smartphones in Russia.
For smartphone manufacturers, Yandex.Kit was distributed free of charge, but this did not have a particular impact on the market position. Analysts believe that Yandex.Kit failed to interest users.
Android device owners increasingly prefer to search for information on Google. According to a Morgan Stanley poll, 51% of Android smartphone users prefer search from Google, and only 41% from Yandex. According to Liveinternet.ru, Yandex is the most popular Internet search engine. But Liveinternet.ru also records a drop in Yandex's share: over the year it decreased by 2.8 percentage points to 58.9% (at the end of January 2015), while Google's share increased by 5.9 percentage points over the same period. P. up to 32.8%.
Tablets and smartphones with Yandex.Kit preinstalled are still available for purchase in Yandex.Market. Also available for download is the interface for smartphones "Yandex.Shell" based on SPB Shell. A source close to the company told Rusbase that the Erica project continues to exist within Yandex, implying an even deeper modification of Android. It is no longer led by the former SPB Software team, but by Tigran Khudaverdyan, the head of Yandex's mobile and software products division.
By the end of 2014, Yandex earned 50.767 billion rubles. Net profit amounted to RUB 17.02 billion. Most of the income (90.2%) came from contextual advertising services.
Anton Nekhaenko and Elina Asfaganova worked on the material.
Yandex.Kit is an alternative system for smartphones created by the search giant Yandex. This launcher is made precisely on the basis of the new mobile system and is fundamentally based on the official one, which was released specifically for devices on Android OS.
This application allows you to change the operating system interface of your Samsung Galaxy S5 smartphone to make it more user-friendly and intuitive. Now working with the phone will take place at a new level. The main screen will turn into a single informative environment - each of the desktops will contain separate programs and widgets, which will make it possible to quickly find out the hot news, weather, various news that may be useful to the user, view photos, and so on.
A separate feature of Yandex.Kit is the absence of an application menu as such, and in order to see them, you just need to turn the main screen to the side. Along with the main interface, the address book will also be replaced, which will become more convenient. Smart search allows you to quickly find contacts or, by the required query, find the nearest municipal and entertainment establishments and find out their contacts.
Contents: The first launch of the device Yandex.Kit shell. Appearance, basic settings. Folders, shortcuts Widgets Dock bar Themes Main screen panels Poster panel Time panel Notes panel Calendar panel Calculator panel News panel Weather panel Moon phase panel Photos panel Dialer, branded chips and settings Keyboard Yandex.Store Yandex.Disk Software version, assembly Yandex. Kit Performance with Yandex.Kit firmware General ...
The firmware from Yandex, called Yandex.Kit (Kit from the English. Kit) was announced on February 19, 2014 at an official event. If before that there were only assumptions about what the device users will ultimately receive, then at the event the Russian web giant threw off the covers.
The history of creating Yandex.Kit began with the acquisition by Yandex of SPB Software (the deal took place three years ago, on November 28, 2011). SPB, previously known for its development for most mobile platforms, became the backbone of the team that worked on the creation of Yandex.Kit. And there is no need to dissemble, Yandex.Kit is based on SPB's product - SPB Shell 3D, a shell that has proven itself quite well on Windows Mobile. The rest of the services are wholly owned by Yandex, these are Yandex.Mail, Yandex.Maps, Yandex.Disk, Yandex.Taxi, and ultimately Yandex.Browser. All these services and applications are already integrated into the firmware by default. Thus, Yandex may be trying to take the first steps towards creating its own ecosystem as opposed to Google. And I must add that the services from Google in Yandex.Kit are completely absent, there is not a single element reminiscent of a competing company (Yandex took the free Android assembly with serial number 4.2.2 as a basis). The app store, through which users could install programs, has been replaced here with its own - Yandex.Store (according to Yandex representatives, it now has more than 100,000 applications). Google Play Market can be installed if you really want to, but the most common applications are in the Store.
Today, only two devices are running Yandex.Kit, the first is the Huawei Honor 3 smartphone (today it will be the hero of the review), the second is the Explay Flame smartphone. The first smartphone has been on the market for a long time and is being successfully sold, the second will go on sale in the second half of April and will be sold with pre-installed Yandex.Kit (Huawei Honor 3 too). The release on sale of devices with preinstalled Yandex.Kit is scheduled for the second half of April (while the material was being made up it became known that Huawei Honor 3 Yandex.Kit will go on sale from April 8! -Comm.aut.) In the future, it is planned to release Yandex.Kit for tablets (Yandex's partner among manufacturers is still unknown, but we can assume that it will also be Huawei), of course, depending on how the devices are sold and how the market perceives them.
And today, using the example of Huaewei Honor 3, let's see what Yandex.Kit is. Let's look at its appearance, capabilities, settings, features, etc. Get ready for the Yandex.Kit review to be as detailed as possible, with a lot of screenshots and text. Otherwise, it would be impossible to fully cover all the elements of the brainchild of Yandex.
First start-up of the device
At the first start (from which you will immediately understand that you have a device with Yandex.Kit firmware in your hands), you will be asked to select the device language (by default, it is Russian), select a time zone, indicate an existing account in Yandex services (or register if it is not there ), indicate whether it is necessary to upload photos to Yandex.Disk, select preferred applications that will be installed after completing the setup (for this it is better to use a WiFi network), agree to the user agreement and that's it. The phone will be ready for use in a few seconds.
Yandex.Kit shell. Appearance, basic settings.
The phone's desktop is nothing more than the familiar Yandex.Shell shell that you may have seen earlier (it is freely available in the Google Play Market or Yandex.Store). In Yandex.Kit, it has undergone a redesign in terms of design (it has become vector in most elements) and intuitive shell control. Most of the interface personalization items have been changed, controls have been added (although many have been removed, on the contrary, perhaps in order not to overload the standard interface for now).
Shell screens are panels with which you can do whatever you want, remove or add elements, install widgets, place shortcuts. There are no explicit restrictions here, as with any other shell. The number of placed panels is not limited (the only thing I would like to remind you is that the more panels, the more RAM is used).
You can move between the panels with standard swipes in both directions or switch to the desired panel in the "carousel" mode, to do this, pinch with two fingers in the center of the screen or click on the panel indicator strip below the main space. In carousel mode, each panel has its own animation, i.e. if it is a news panel, then in a couple of seconds a newspaper will unfold in front of you; if it is an application panel, the main ones will be shown. It looks very nice.
The basic concept of the Yandex.Kit shell is the rejection of the standard application menu, which usually contained all the shortcuts of installed programs. Here, after installing the application, the program shortcut immediately appears on the panel (this approach to organizing the workspace from the MIUI shell and the like, and MIUI, in turn, borrowed the idea from iOS). The screen grid size is 5 rows and 4 columns. Those. up to 20 elements can be placed on one panel at a time (the grid cannot be resized, although in SBP Shell the grid was of two types 4 * 4 and 5 * 5).
On the main screen of Yandex.Shell there is a weather widget with a search bar, you cannot remove it, it is firmly glued. In the search box settings, you can specify which of the search services will be used - Yandex, Google or Bing. There is space under the widget to place your items.
Folders, shortcuts
The original feature of the Yandex.Kit shell is the way of placing folders on the screen, it can be either the classic view of the folder, when the shortcuts are inside it, or the expanded view, when the first three elements of the folder are always at hand, and the rest remain inside. On the panel, you can add your own folders, give them names, place shortcuts, toggle switches, shortcuts, etc. in them. There is also a hidden folder in the settings where you can remove elements that are rarely used.
Widgets
The original widgets from Yandex are represented by 16 different widgets - Poster, Indicators, News, Weather, TV Program, Gallery, Birthdays, Magazine, Calendar, World Clock, Backlight, Messages, Moon phases, Photo of the day, Clock. Most of them are duplicate elements of the main panels that are located on the shell screens. And if you do not want to install many panels, then you can put several Yandex widgets on one (two or three) screens at once. The toggle switches (indicators) widget turned out to be especially successful. You can configure the main switches on it - backlight, battery, Bluetooth, flashlight, GPS, mobile Internet, network status, profile, traffic jams, WiFi, access point. At the same time, only five toggle switches can be placed on this widget, plus a status bar for the battery status or backlight level, or only the switches can be left. Standard widgets from Yandex, alas, are not scalable.
You can add classic widgets from Android to any of the screens (they are familiar to you, although some are part of the EmotionUI shell from Huawei), many of them are standard, the rest appear as you install third-party applications. They are scalable like in any other shell, all widget settings are in their usual places.
Dock bar
The standard quick launch line, which is popularly referred to as the "dock bar", contains up to five items, and these can be either shortcuts or folders. The number of dock bars is not configurable, it is only one. Standard application icons from Yandex, when transferred to the dock bar, are converted from raster to vector, third-party ones remain raster (in SPB Shell, third-party application icons simply turned gray).
Themes
In the standard setting for Yandex.Kit, there are only two themes - dark and light. If dark is set by default, then light can be switched in the system settings (Settings-Home screen-Appearance), it will be applied to all interface elements. Here you can also change the settings of the panels installed on the desktop in one menu (the settings of each panel are duplicated separately). Below are some screenshots of the light theme.
Home screen panels
Billboard panel
On this panel, you can see what new films are in the halls nearest to you, read the descriptions of the films, and watch shots from them. If you go to a detailed description of the film, then below it will be indicated in which cinemas (including the address and distance to them) and what time the sessions will take place. Here you can also select the website of the distributor company in your city for detailed information, call the box office to book tickets or visit the afisha.yandex.ru website (the information on it will correspond to what you saw on the panel). You can open the address of the cinema in Yandex.Maps if you don't know where exactly the building is located.
At the top of the panel there is a drop-down list in which you can change the movie displayed on the main panel. There is no update frequency setting, you can only specify the use of paid connections (meaning cellular networks).
Panel time
On this panel, you can select the cities for which the current time will be displayed. It is not possible to display several cities at once (for example, as in the HTC Sense shell), you will have to view each one separately, changing the city in the drop-down list. The design of the watch can be changed, since there are more than sixty skins in the settings (from frankly masculine to glamorous feminine). Information about the date, set alarms is duplicated under the clock. Even below it is indicated what the lunar day is today, the phase of the moon and the percentage of illumination of the Earth's satellite.
When you click on the clock, you can go directly to the skin selection, they are not installed locally, you will have to download each separately. Clicking on the date does not switch to the calendar (although it would be logical), but starts setting the alarm. Clicking on the description of the lunar day will open a detailed calendar showing the dates and phases of the moon at a particular moment.
Notes panel
Often note widgets in skins are implemented by third-party applications, they have to be downloaded from the Google Play Market. In Yandex.Kit, the notes panel is present initially and is part of the shell. Notes are added by pressing the "+" button in the upper right corner of the panel, and each of them is set to a color (random, last used or set manually). Notes can be divided into categories so that there is no mess on one panel (when changing a category, notes from others are automatically removed). In addition to the main categories, you can create your own. Notes can be placed one above the other in the order in which you want. You can set three types of font on notes - small, regular, or large.
A very useful trick if you need to make small notes without any special frills. Of course, there is not enough insertion of images or a minimum set of special symbols (only those that are in the keyboard).
There is no online synchronization of notes with Yandex services; there is no analogy with Google Keep. I would like to believe that this will be added in the future.
Calendar panel
The calendar panel displays the current month as a calendar, holidays for the coming days, and the next month. When you click on a date in the calendar, a standard application is launched, where you can set an event, make an appointment and set a reminder. In the panel options, you can configure which of the scheduled appointments to show and specify which day of the week is the first (Monday or Sunday).
Calculator panel
The simplest calculator with which you can perform basic mathematical operations. There are no engineering functions here, only interest calculation. On the one hand, this is correct, if you overload the calculator with unnecessary buttons, it becomes difficult to use it, but for students, calculating basic mathematical functions would be a good help. Perhaps they will appear in updates.
News panel
The news panel displays the latest events taking place in the world and in the country, indicating the time of publication of news in the media. You can specify several topics at once on which the news will be updated and downloaded. News is divided into thematic channels, you cannot add your own from third-party sources. If you click on the news, it will open in a separate window, and just below will be placed numerous information sources that mention the same news. By clicking on the source, it will open in Yandex Browser.
It is impossible to display all the news in one feed at once (like a mix), you will have to select a topic in the list on the news panel, and the latest news in the selected section will automatically "pull up". In the settings, you can specify which topics will be displayed, forced update of news, clear cached data, automatic update time in hours (can be updated manually), use of cellular networks.
Weather panel
Analogs of panels (or widgets) with weather display are found in most launchers from manufacturers, and this fate has not spared Yandex.Kit. Here it (the panel) is made in a strict linear style (there is no pretentiousness of HTC Sense or LG's shell), and this probably looks even more advantageous. Again, there is no way to display the weather forecast in several cities at once (even in a compressed form), the screen constantly displays the forecast for only one. The rest can be viewed by changing the city in the list line at the top of the panel. As soon as you change the city, a high-quality photo of significant places for this city is pulled from the Internet (for Moscow, of course, it became the Kremlin, for St. Isaac's Cathedral, for Blagoveshchensk for some reason an airplane flying over the border with China was displayed on the screen). By the way, Yandex did not forget about the authors of the photos taken, for each it is listed below the forecast (copyrights are strictly observed). Pulling on the bottom of the Quick Forecast will display a detailed five-day forecast full screen.
In the panel settings, you can set additional cities, the update frequency in hours, the use of cellular networks when updating, the temperature scale (Celsius or Fahrenheit), the measurement of wind speed (miles per hour, knots, meters per second, kilometers per hour), atmospheric scale pressure (inches, millimeters, hectopascals, atmospheres). Initially, the values \u200b\u200bthat are typical for Russia were established - celsius, meters and millimeters. The forecast can be forcibly refreshed by clicking the refresh icon opposite the city on the panel (the same action can be performed from the settings menu) When viewing the detailed settings, you can open the weather forecast in Yandex Browser (though there is no particular point in this, everything is displayed perfectly on the panel itself). There is no weather forecast animation, although many analogs have it, and for a very long time.
Moon phase panel
This panel reflects the phases of the moon, as well as the astrological positions of the planets in the signs of the zodiac. The sunrise and sunset times can be seen below. The panel is clearly for astrology enthusiasts, amateur gardeners or girls to know when is the best time to get trendy haircuts.
If you click on the Moon, the panel will change to a 3D image of the planetary circle, where you can see the location of the Sun and Earth in relation to the Moon. Here you can see in which of the zodiac signs the Earth is. At the time of this writing, the Earth was in Aries (whatever it sounds and whatever it means).
Photo panel
On the one hand, this is a good help when choosing wallpapers or images for entertainment and work, on the other hand, if you use downloading via cellular networks, this is another traffic eater.
Dailer, branded features and settings
Yandex.Kit is especially proud of the redesigned interface of the standard Phone application. In fact, the standard system application was replaced by its own (although not completely), with a completely different concept and interface (although some "chips" could be seen in the 2GIS Dialer application).
The dialer has added such features typical only for Yandex.Kit as: search in the telephone directory by name, which can be either full or diminutive (for example - Alexander-Sasha-Shura, but if you do a search by "Sasha", then the search will save and won't find anything), but only from the Russian language; "Endless" phone book - if no match is found in the phone book, the dealer will turn to the Internet and display the results corresponding to the request in the form of a list (these can be businesses, places of rest, etc.); smart phone book that recognizes an unknown incoming call. But the last trick will only work if the phone is in the database of Yandex itself, otherwise the numbers will remain numbers.
Contacts in the phone book can be entered both directly from the phone (saving is possible only in Yandex.Passport or on the phone's SIM card), and by importing from a Google account (it is better to do this when you first start the phone, in the future you will not have to look for this option in settings), further updates of contacts are performed using the CardDAV protocol.
When adding or editing a contact, the card contains all the necessary fields for identification. You can even indicate the degree of contact in relation to you - father, mother, friend, colleague, etc.
The main interface when making calls is inherited from the Huawei EmotionUI shell, here Yandex.Kit has not managed to make any changes yet. I would like to believe that this is a defect in the first version of the firmware.
Keyboard
Yandex considers the keyboard application built into Yandex.Kit to be another proprietary chip. At the presentation, it was reported about smart predictive word input, which is an order of magnitude better at guessing words than any other third-party keyboards. Whether this is true or not remains to be seen, but in the presentation Yandex used a slide where it was indicated that the keyboard was winning when entering text from many competitors.
It was not possible to find out whose developments were taken as a basis. The keyboard has only two themes - dark and light. And probably the main drawback is the lack of input by sliding gestures (swipes). We'll have to go back a couple of years and enter letters with the usual tapas. There are only two input languages \u200b\u200b- Russian and English. There is no way to download additional languages \u200b\u200bor dictionaries, or to synchronize keyboard data with Yandex cloud services. It's just not in the options. The Yandex engine is used for voice input.
The only trick that other keyboards cannot yet repeat is the so-called "rank" input. Let's say the password that you set for one or another service was typed in Russian letters in the English layout. If you were using any other keyboard, you would have to pry into a regular desktop keyboard and type a password. Yandex gracefully bypassed this point, when you press the language switch again, Russian letters appear on the keys of the English keyboard, and you calmly type your password. This works only in password fields, in other cases the keyboard uses two traditional layouts.
Yandex.Store
The branded application store from Yandex is pre-installed and the only place where you can download and install applications on your device. We repeat once again that the traditional Google Play Market is not here, and will not be. In Yandex.Store, we managed to find all the most necessary applications, there are both paid and free versions. When purchasing applications through Yandex.Store, the user is refunded up to 10% of the purchase amount. A trifle, but nice.
At the same time, Yandex did not block the installation of applications using APK packages from unknown sources. That is, if something is not found in Yandex.Store, you can always download the installation package from the Internet, copy it to your device and install it manually.
Yandex.Disk
When you log into the Yandex.Disk cloud storage service, the company gives you 50GB of storage space. It is not yet known whether this bounty share is temporary or if the gigabytes will be assigned to your account forever. I would like to think that they will remain forever.
Software version, assembly Yandex.Kit
The OS version in the firmware from Yandex.Kit has not changed. Android is still using version 4.2.2, but the lack of any features of the latest versions of flagship devices is not noticed behind the general shell. All that is missing is partially implemented by Yandex companies, all that is missing can be installed. Future updates are entirely dependent on the device manufacturer, i.e. as soon as the update appears, the new firmware from Yandex will immediately appear. It should be understood that Yandex itself cannot develop the firmware from scratch; this requires completely different resources.
Performance with Yandex.Kit firmware
Testing the device in a synthetic test showed Antutu Benchmark X that the device began to work even a little faster (if such tests can be considered objective), judging by the scores received. In real life, there were no obvious brakes, everything started, moved, moved quickly. During the use of the device, not a single “crash” / FC of the application (force close) has occurred.
General impressions, conclusions
From using Huawei Honor 3 with Yandex.Kit firmware, two impressions were left. On the one hand, this firmware turned out to be very stable, but can it be considered a full-fledged firmware. I think if you do not go into details, then yes. If you dig deeper, then we are offered to use a very young ecosystem from Yandex and, in truth, to be so-called "beta testers", no matter how offensive it sounds. Especially considering that Yandex did not create software for devices from scratch, but put its own shell on it and supplied it with the necessary services and applications.
In any of these cases, I would like to believe that Yandex has a great desire to become a Russian Google, and it will not stop in case of some minor setbacks. This can be hindered by both low device sales and negative reviews from end users. And to offer to buy a similar device a second time (even with good technical characteristics), you will have to try very hard.
Minor flaws in terms of control ergonomics, themes, Yandex.Kit customization - it's just a matter of time to fix them. Let's see how the market and buyers react to the first trial balloon, and we'll draw conclusions later.
The official sale of Huawei Honor 3 with the Yandex.Kit firmware goes on April 8 at a price of 12,990 rubles. You can pre-order in the official online store shop.huawei.ru, THAT IS WHY address!
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