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Discontinued: A Look At Google Play Edition Phones
GPE phones keep getting discontinued. Why is that? Here we recap the life of GPE plus try to figure out what is going on with Google's experiment.
This week marked the official removal of yet another entry in the Google Play Edition (GPE) handset list. Starting around the middle of 2013, Google began offering a variety of Android devices running their pure Android experience. The devices were sold in the United States through the Playstore at the same price of their OEM skinned counterparts. This hasn’t been the first program Google envisioned to put out stock android devices into consumers and developers’ hands, and it also wouldn’t be the last.