Google Chrome won’t be available on 32 million devices anytime soon Addendum: the firm has indeed decided to upgrade the minimum version of Android from 4.1 to 4.4 before. The change was noticed by our colleagues at XDA – they noticed this change by analyzing the configuration required by the Google Chrome API. According to the latest figures, 3.2% of Android smartphones and tablets run on Android Jelly Bean 4.1-4.3, thus representing a total of 32 million smartphones, thus making them “outdated”.
Chrome will soon be unavailable on all smartphones older than Android 4.2
Most affected smartphones are over 4 years old. However, they still work! Fortunately, there are many alternatives on Android – the system does not force third-party editors to use the same rendering engine as, for example, on iOS. So big developers like Mozilla Foundation or Opera can continue to offer browsers for older smartphones or whose specs are somewhat “fair” today. To continue to access the Internet normally, simply install one of them; Under iOS, it ends when Apple decides that a smartphone is outdated.
Here are some alternative browsers that work fine on Android 4.1:
Do you have an old Android smartphone? Which model and what is your feedback after years? Share your experience in the comments to this article.
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