UPDATED 01:52 EDT / MAY 13 2015

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Google launches Android One in Turkey, higher specs and price tag

On Tuesday, Google Inc. announced that it has expanded its Android One program to Turkey. This marks the first European country to be included in Google’s efforts to capture the smartphone market in developing countries through low-cost Android devices. Announced at Google I/O in June last year and subsequently launched in India in September of the same year, Android One is now available in seven countries, including Nepal, Indonesia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, aforementioned India and now Turkey.

To date, Android One smartphones have all run Google’s near-stock version of the Android operating system and came equipped with low-end – read underpowered – processors, similarly low-spec cameras and offered connectivity only to 3G networks. Not surprising considering the price range of around the $110 mark.

In Turkey, the Android One model launched in partnership with General Mobile offers the best specs seen on an Android One smartphone so far. The smartphone sports a 5-inch HD IPS display, a 13-megapixel rear camera complimented by a 5-megapixel front-facing camera, 2 GB of memory, 16 GB of internal storage, support for faster 4G networks and runs on Android 5.1 Lollipop. Most impressively though, the handset features a much more powerful quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 chip clocked at 1.2 GHz.

“Our goal with Android One is to empower more people to do great things with the internet by putting a high-quality, up-to-date smartphone into their hands,” Google said in a press release.

The increased performance and other specs come at a price though. General Mobile’s 4G Android One smartphone sells for the equivalent of around $260.

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