Smartphones on stock Android

Stock Android

— the presence of unmodified, stock version of Android operating system.

The Android OS is open source, allowing developers to create various modifications of this OS, including branded assemblies and software shells. Such modifications can be quite advanced, but they often change or even limit the functionality of the original Android, and updates to such firmware are highly dependent on their creators and often fall behind updates to the original OS. Thus, some users prefer to use stock Android, without additional add-ons; thus these devices are designed especially for them.