Huawei and Russian provider Explay have already agreed to load Yandex.Kit on upcoming Android phones; the Huawei Honor 3 Yandex and Explay Flame smartphones are expected to go on sale in Russia next month, but will be on display at next week's Mobile World Congress.The move, according to Yandex, is intended to help phone makers that want Android-based devices but don't want to deal with having to install Google's suite of apps. 'The Android mobile OS is free, but all the defining features of a mobile experience app store, browser, email and maps are all available under special, case-by-case agreements,' Yandex said in a statement.A recent found that while Android dominates the mobile OS space globally, there has been a sharp rise in the percentage of forked Android operating systems, particularly in China and India.
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About 25 percent of devices running Android are running versions that don't include Google's suite of apps.Not surprisingly, Yandex would prefer phone makers adopt its solution rather than Google's. 'While we primarily were working on covering all the bases for our users on Android devices, what we've got in the end was a full-fledged Android 'ecosystem,' Yandex said. 'A comprehensive, out-of-the-box solution, versatile and technologically honed enough to be offered to original device manufacturers as firmware that they can install on their devices shipped to the Russian market. This is the key to the car they were given for free and now they can drive it.' That solution is available to those in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Turkey. 'For other markets we are happy to offer a set of key services that are essential for creating firmware,' Yandex said.