Yandex.Kit is a launcher from the Android firmware of the same name, created by a well-known Russian company. This solution is intended for those who like the "Kit" interface, but they do not need to install the firmware itself. In fact, we have before us a somewhat revised and rethought version of the very popular Yandex.Shell graphical shell. Working with this launcher has become even more comfortable and pleasant than with its "progenitor", and besides, it has received a modern "material" interface, which even the most demanding users will surely like.
Among the useful features that this shell provides, we can highlight the provision of quick access to proprietary Yandex applications, a very stylish lock screen with support for a variety of unlock mechanisms, a very interesting design of "curtains", an ergonomic screen for entering a phone number, a set of "branded" clock widgets, weather and more. In addition, the application has a large library of beautiful wallpapers in high resolution. The undoubted advantage of Yandex.Kit can also be considered the fact that it works quite quickly even on devices with relatively weak hardware. You can download and use this launcher for free.
Contents: The first launch of the device Shell Yandex.Kit. Appearance, basic settings. Folders, shortcuts Widgets Dock-bar Themes Main screen panels Billboard panel Time panel Notes panel Calendar panel Calculator panel News panel Weather panel Moon phase panel Photo panel Diler, proprietary features and settings Keyboard Yandex.Store Yandex.Disk Software version, Yandex. Whale Performance with firmware Yandex.Kit General…
Firmware from Yandex, called Yandex.Kit (Kit from English. Kit - set) was announced on February 19, 2014 at an official event. If before that there were only assumptions about what users of devices would ultimately receive, then at the event the Russian web giant threw off the covers.
The history of the creation of Yandex.Kit began with the acquisition of SPB Software by Yandex (the deal took place three years ago, on November 28, 2011). Previously known for its developments for most mobile platforms, SPB became the backbone of the team that worked on the creation of Yandex.Kit. And there is no need to dissemble here, Yandex.Kit is based on a product from SPB - SPB Shell 3D, a shell that has proven itself well on Windows Mobile. The remaining 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 is probably 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 as a basis the freely distributed assembly of Android with serial number 4.2.2). The application 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 with a great desire, 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 (it will be the hero of the review today), the second is the Explay Flame smartphone. The first smartphone has been on the market for a long time and is successfully sold, the second will go on sale in the second half of April and will be sold with Yandex.Kit preinstalled (Huawei Honor 3 too). The sale of devices with Yandex.Kit pre-installed 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.), Users do not have the opportunity to install it themselves yet. 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 this will also be Huawei), of course, depending on how the devices will be sold and how the market will perceive them.
And today, using the example of Huaewei Honor 3, we will see what Yandex.Kit is. Let's look at its appearance, features, 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 launch 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 prompted to select the device language (Russian is the default), select the time zone, indicate an existing account in Yandex services (or register if it is not ), specify whether it is necessary to upload photos to Yandex.Disk, select the preferred applications that will be installed after the setup is completed (it is better to use a WiFi network for this), agree to the user agreement and that's it. The phone will be ready for use in a few seconds.
Shell Yandex.Kit. Appearance, basic settings.
The desktop of the phone is nothing more than the familiar Yandex.Shell shell that you might have seen earlier (it is freely available in the Google Play Market or Yandex.Store). In Yandex.Kit, it has been redesigned in terms of design (it has become vector in most elements) and intuitive shell control. Most 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 yet).
Shell screens are panels with which you can do anything, remove or add elements, install widgets, place shortcuts. There are no explicit restrictions here, as in 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 panels with standard swipes in both directions or switch to the desired panel in the "carousel" mode, to do this, pinch with two fingers to the center of the screen or click on the panel indicator bar below the main space. In carousel mode, each panel has its own animation, i.e. if this is a news panel, then after a couple of seconds a newspaper will unfold in front of you, if this is an application panel, then the main ones will be shown. Looks very nice.
The main concept of the Yandex.Kit shell is the rejection of the standard application menu, where all shortcuts were usually placed installed programs. Here, after installing the application, a shortcut to the program immediately appears on the panel (such an approach to organizing the workspace of 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. on one panel, you can place up to 20 elements at the same time (you cannot change the size of the grid, although in SBP Shell there were two types of grid 4*4 and 5*5).
On the main screen of Yandex.Shell there is a weather widget with a search bar, you can’t remove it, it is tightly “glued”. In the search bar settings, you can specify which of the search services will be used - Yandex, Google or Bing. Under the widget there is a space to place your elements.
Folders, labels
The original feature of the Yandex.Kit shell is the way folders are placed on the screen, it can be either a classic folder view, when the shortcuts are inside it, or an expanded view, when the first three elements of the folder are always at hand, and the rest remain inside. You can add your own folders to the panel, give them names, place shortcuts, toggle switches, shortcuts, etc. in them. There is also a hidden folder in the settings where you can remove items 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 placed 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) screen at once. The widget of toggle switches (indicators) 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, hotspot. At the same time, only five toggle switches can be placed on this widget, plus a status bar for battery status or backlight level, or only switches can be left. Standard widgets from Yandex, alas, do not scale.
You can add classic Android widgets to any of the screens (they are familiar to you, although some are part of Huawei's EmotionUI shell), many of them are standard, the rest appear as third-party applications are installed. They scale 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 elements, and these can be both shortcuts and folders. The number of dock bars is not configurable, there 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
There are only two themes in the standard Yandex.Kit design settings - 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.
Main screen panels
panel poster
On this panel, you can see what new films are shown in the halls closest to you, read the descriptions of films, and watch frames 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 rental company in your city for detailed information, call the box office to book tickets or visit the website afisha.yandex.ru (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 where you can change the movie displayed on the main panel. There are no settings for the update frequency, 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). Under the clock, information about the date and set alarms is duplicated. Even lower is indicated what lunar day it 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 immediately go to the skin selection, they are not installed locally, you will have to download each one separately. When you click on a date, you do not go to the calendar (although it would be logical), but the alarm setting starts. Clicking on the description of a 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 wrappers are implemented 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, while each of them is given a color (random, last used or set manually). Notes can be divided into categories so that there is no mess on one panel (when you change the 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 need. You can set three types of font for your notes - small, regular, or large.
A very useful feature if you need to make small recordings without any 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 here. Hopefully it will be added in the future.
Panel calendar
The calendar pane displays the current month as a calendar, holidays for the coming days, and the next month. Clicking on a date in the calendar launches a standard application where you can set an event, make an appointment and set a reminder. In the panel options, you can configure which of the scheduled meetings to show, and specify which day of the week is the first (Monday or Sunday).
panel calculator
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 extra buttons, it becomes difficult to use it, but for students, the calculation of 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 the news was published in the media. You can specify several topics at once, on which news will be updated and downloaded. News is divided into thematic channels, you can not add your own from third-party sources. If you click on the news, it will open in a separate window, and a little lower will be placed numerous information sources that mention the same news. By clicking on the source, it will open in Yandex.Browser.
You can’t display all the news at once in one feed (in a kind of mix), you will have to select a topic from the list on the news panel, while the latest news in the selected section will automatically “pull up”. In the settings, you can specify which topics will be displayed, force news updates, clear cached data, automatic update time in hours (can be updated manually), use of cellular networks.
weather panel
Analogues of panels (well, or widgets) with weather display are found in most launchers from manufacturers, and Yandex.Kit has not bypassed this fate. Here it (the panel) is made in a strict linear style (there is no pretentiousness of HTC Sense or LG shell), and this probably makes it look 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 always has a 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 up from the Internet (for Moscow, of course, it was the Kremlin, for St. Isaac's Cathedral for St. 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). By dragging the lower limit of the short forecast, the detailed weather forecast for five days will be displayed in full screen.
In the panel settings, you can set additional cities, update frequency in hours, use of cellular networks during updates, temperature scale (Celsius or Fahrenheit), wind speed measurement (miles per hour, knots, meters per second, kilometers per hour), atmospheric scale pressure (inches, millimeters, hectopascals, atmospheres). Initially, the values \u200b\u200bthat are characteristic of Russia were set - Celsius, meters and millimeters. The forecast can be forced to update by clicking on the update icon next to the city on the panel (the same action can be performed from the settings menu). When viewing detailed settings, you can open the weather forecast in Yandex.Browser (although there is not much point in this, everything is perfectly displayed on the panel itself). There is no weather forecast animation, although many analogues have it and, moreover, 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. Below you can see the time of sunrise and sunset. The panel is clearly for those who are fond of astrology, amateur gardeners or for girls to know when is the best time to do trendy haircuts.
If you click on the Moon, the panel will change to a 3D image of a planetary circle, where you can see the location of the Sun and the Earth in relation to the Moon. Here you can see in which of the signs of the zodiac the Earth is located. At the time of writing the review, the Earth was in Aries (whatever that sounds like and whatever that means).
Photo panel
On the one hand, this is a good help when choosing wallpapers or images for entertainment-work, on the other hand, if you use downloads via cellular networks, this is another traffic hog.
Diler, branded chips and settings
Yandex.Kit is especially proud of the redesigned interface of the standard Phone application. In fact, the standard system application was replaced with its own (though not completely), with a completely different concept and interface (although some "chips" could be seen in the 2GIS Dialer application).
The diler has been added such features that are typical only for Yandex.Kit, such as: search in the telephone directory by name, which can be both full and diminutive (for example, Alexander-Sasha-Shura, but if you search for "Sasha", then the search will save and will not find anything), but only from the Russian language; "endless" phone book - if no matches are 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 enterprises, vacation spots, etc.); a smart phonebook that recognizes an unknown incoming call. But the last trick will work only if the phone is in the database of Yandex itself, otherwise the numbers will remain numbers.
Contacts in the phone book can be entered either directly from the phone (saving is only possible in Yandex.Passport or on the phone's SIM card), or by importing from a Google account (it's better to do this when you first start the phone, in the future you won't have to look for this option in settings), further contacts are updated using the CardDAV protocol.
When adding or editing a contact, the card has 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, so far Yandex.Kit has not had time to make changes here. 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. The presentation reported on smart predictive word input, which is an order of magnitude better at guessing words than any other third-party keyboards. Like it or not, it remains to be seen, but in the presentation, Yandex used a slide that indicated that the keyboard won when entering text from many competitors.
Whose developments were taken as a basis, it was not possible to find out. The keyboard has only two themes - dark and light. And probably the main drawback is the lack of input with sliding gestures (swipes). We'll have to go back a couple of years and enter the letters with the usual tapas. There are only two input languages - Russian and English. It is not possible to download additional languages or dictionaries, or synchronize keyboard data with Yandex cloud services. It's just not in the options. The Yandex engine is used for voice input.
The only feature that other keyboards cannot yet repeat is the so-called Ranglish input. Let's say the password that you set for a particular service was typed in Russian letters in the English layout. When using any other keyboard, you would have to peek into a regular desktop keyboard and type in a password. Yandex gracefully bypassed this moment, when you click on the language switch again, Russian letters appear on the keys of the English keyboard, and you calmly type your password. This only works in password entry 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. Once again, we repeat that the traditional Play Market from Google is not here, and will not be. We managed to find all the most necessary applications in Yandex.Store, 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 the device and install it manually.
Yandex.Disk
When you authorize in the cloud information storage service from Yandex - Yandex.Disk, the company gives you 50GB of storage space. It is not yet known whether this generosity is temporary or 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 chips is not noticed behind the general shell latest versions flagship devices. Everything that is not there has been partially implemented by Yandex companies, everything that is missing can be installed additionally. Future updates are entirely dependent on the device manufacturer's company, i.e. as soon as the update appears, a new firmware from Yandex will immediately appear. You need to understand that Yandex itself cannot develop 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 obtained. In real life, there were no obvious brakes, everything started, moved, moved quickly. During the use of the device, there was not a single “fall” / FC application (force close - forced termination of the application).
General impressions, conclusions
From using Huawei Honor 3 with Yandex.Kit firmware, there were twofold impressions. 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 we dig deep, then we are offered to use a very young ecosystem from Yandex and, in truth, to be the so-called "beta testers", no matter how insulting it may sound. Especially considering that Yandex did not create from scratch software for devices, but put his own shell on it and provided it with the necessary services and applications.
In any of these cases, I want to believe that Yandex has a great desire to become the Russian Google, and it will not stop in the event of some minor setbacks. Both low sales of devices and negative reviews from end users can prevent this. And offer to buy a similar device a second time (even with good technical specifications), it will take a lot of effort.
Minor flaws in terms of ergonomics of management, themes, customization of Yandex.Kit - fixing them is just a matter of time. Let's see how the market and buyers react to the first trial balloon, and we will draw conclusions later.
The official sale of Huawei Honor 3 with Yandex.Kit firmware comes 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!
P.S. The editors of the Dpdroid.ru resource will be happy to answer all questions related to Yandex.Kit, installations, settings, etc. You can leave your questions in the comments to the material!
The operating system for smartphones and tablets, developed on the basis of the open source Android code. 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 Kita development team has disbanded and its members are scattered around other projects. In addition, part of the developers of "Kita" left the company. In April of this year, the team that worked on the design of Yandex.Kit posted on Facebook page entry "Farewell, Yandex".
The basis of the team working on the project were 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.
Representatives of "Yandex" deny the fact of closing the project:
“We launched Yandex.Kit on February 19, 2014. Last year, we agreed to pre-install Yandex.Kit on Explay, Huawei, Smarto, DEXP devices, - the Yandex press service reported, - Now this product is not actively developed, including due to opposition from Google. At the moment, as far as we know, some Smarto and DEXP tablets are still on sale on Yandex.Kit.”
In February of this year, Yandex filed an application with the Federal Antimonopoly Service demanding that Google be checked for violations of Russian antitrust laws. Yandex believes that Google violates the principle of free competition in the Android smartphone market, as it puts pressure on manufacturers who want to use their own firmware options. In mid-April, the FAS granted Google's request to postpone the consideration of the case - it is expected that the next meeting of the commission on this issue will be held 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 of this year, the European Commission sent an official complaint to the search giant - 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's guilt is proven, the corporation faces a fine of 10% of its annual revenue (about $6 billion).
For Yandex, the value of Kit was to replace all pre-installed services from Google with the corresponding Yandex services (maps, browser, calendar, etc.). Google Play is replaced by "Yandex.Store", and Yandex.SpeechKit is used instead of Google Voice. The company was in need of its own mobile OS, as a sharp increase 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 a share of 11% in Russia, in 2011 the share increased to 29%, and in 2012 - already up 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 much impact on the market position. Analysts believe that Yandex.Kit failed to get users interested.
Android device owners are increasingly choosing to search for information on Google. According to a survey by Morgan Stanley, 51% of Android smartphone users prefer search from Google, and only 41% from Yandex. According to Liveinternet.ru, Yandex is the most popular search engine on the Russian Internet. But Liveinternet.ru also registers a drop in the share of Yandex: over the year it decreased by 2.8 percentage points to 58.9% (as of the end of January 2015), while the share of Google increased by 5.9 percentage points over the same period. P. up to 32.8%.
Tablets and smartphones with Yandex.Kit pre-installed are still available for purchase in Yandex.Market. Also available for download is an interface for smartphones "Yandex.Shell", based on SPB Shell. A source close to the company told Rusbase that the Erica project continues to exist inside Yandex, which implies an even deeper modification of Android. It is no longer led by the former SPB Software team, but by Tigran Khudaverdyan, head of mobile and software products at Yandex.
At the end of 2014, Yandex earned 50.767 billion rubles. Net profit amounted to 17.02 billion rubles. Most of the income (90.2%) was brought by contextual advertising services.
Anton Nekhaenko and Elina Asfaganova worked on the material.
Russian giant Yandex has developed firmware for Android devices - Yandex.Kit. Firmware from Yandex is installed on smartphones during production. It is expected that the first devices that will receive Yandex Kit will be Huawei Honor 3 Yandex and Explay Flame.
The new firmware has been developed taking into account the needs of the Russian user. It combines smart Yandex technologies, a clear interface and a set of the most popular applications on the Russian market. Which will provide more convenient device navigation and web surfing.
Yandex has developed several accessibility features for Kit. For example, contacts of people can be searched for by all forms of the name - the query [Alexander] will find Sasha, Alexander, and even Shura. "Endless" phone book can find and identify unrecorded numbers of pharmacies, banks, etc. Keith's keyboard suggests the following words in the correct case, and when entering a password, it shows the letters of both layouts - to make it more convenient to enter, say, "nsrjdrf1985", which the person remembered as "pumpkin1985".
The appearance of the Yandex Kit firmware is a version of the Yandex.Shell 3D interface (it will be available only in Yandex.Kit). Useful services such as Search, Maps and Mail are already preinstalled; the user can easily add popular social networks and other applications from the Yandex.Store store to them.
The new firmware from Yandex will be of interest not only to users, but also to manufacturers of Android devices. The former receive a convenient phone, the latter receive the necessary services and technologies to create it on flexible terms. The company has ready-made solutions for any Android device manufacturing companies, in any markets: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Turkey. The company is also ready to provide a set of basic services, without which it is impossible to create firmware, to manufacturers from other countries.
For the majority of small or medium-sized Android device manufacturers, using the popular Linux-based mobile operating system, which is famously free to install, modify and distribute, is like being given a car without the key. It "s nice and all but how do you drive it?
There isn't much use of a free operating system if you cannot offer your customers all the basic features mobile users now take for granted. The Android mobile OS , but all the defining features of a mobile experience – app store, browser, email and maps – are all available under special, case-by-case agreements.
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And the best part is there are no fees. Yandex.Kit is distributed on a fee-free basis and performs well on virtually any hardware, including the not-so-powerful devices popular in Russia and the CIS. In addition, smartphones carrying Yandex.Kit can be easily branded under the manufacturer's name. In Russia, the manufacturer can choose to market their device with the Yandex logo, to piggyback on the existing customer affinity for one of the most recognisable and strong brands in this country.
Huawei and Explay, the early adopters of alternative Android software, will show their devices with Yandex.Kit on board at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in just four days. Their phones will be available to customers in Russia in March.
Reasons to love Yandex.Kit:
One-stop authorization gives the user an opportunity to have access to all Yandex apps after entering their name and password only once – when they are setting up their phone.
Instant contact syncing instantly imports the user's contacts from their Google Account to their Yandex account.
smart dialer uses information from Yandex "s Business Directory to identify the caller" s number even if they aren't one of the user "s contacts.
Yandex.Kit equips the Android device with a Yandex.Shell-based home screen, which transforms the device's user interface into an interactive 3D space with useful panels and widgets.
advanced contact book finds the user's contacts even when the search doesn't exactly match the contact's name, and offers phone numbers of venues, companies or businesses, such as restaurants, pharmacies or cinemas, in the vicinity of the user's current location.
Android app store, Yandex.Store, gives the user access to the inventory of over 100,000 apps, including most popular, such as Twitter, Facebook, Skype, Cut The Rope and others. Users of Yandex.Store in the Yandex.Kit package also receive a 10% rebate from every app purchase to their "rebate account", which can be used for purchasing more apps. The classical 70/30 revenue share scheme, when the revenue from app sales is shared between the app developer and the store, also includes the manufacturer or provider of the device that carries Yandex.Kit.
Smart, secure and easy-to-use mobile browser, Yandex.Browser, offers smart search suggestions and saves the user's favorite websites and tabs and arranges them into a single control panel.
Other reasons to love Yandex.Kit:
Yandex "s cloud service, Yandex.Disk, is available for running on original devices as part of the package with Yandex.Store, Yandex.Browser and Yandex.Shell. The map library, featuring a worldwide map and detailed maps for the largest US and European cities, compatible with any geolocation app via a mapping API, is available with Yandex.Store or as part of the full package.
Android device manufacturers can also enjoy original branding opportunities for Yandex.Store and freedom to choose a search engine for Yandex.Browser on their mobile device equipped with Yandex.Kit.
OEMs and mobile providers can discover more business opportunities at our stand E33, Hall 5 at Mobile World Congress in Fira Barcelona Gran Via, on February, 24-27.