Last week, we saw the first Android 4.4 KitKat updates start heading out to owners of the Galaxy S 4. With international distribution underway, out thoughts turned to what the situation might end up looking like for North American GS4 owners; would the carriers drag their feet, or would our own GS4 KitKat updates be swift to arrive? We heard from Rogers in Canada that the ...
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After a brief lull in news about KitKat updates for some of our favorite Android flagships, new tidbits started arriving earlier today, as we learned about the first Galaxy S 4 Android 4.4 updates to reach South Korea. Aside from the GS4, the other Android model that’s been demanding a lot of attention for its own KitKat update status has been the HTC One. Late last month, we heard from HTC about the delays it was ...
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Itching to get Android 4.4 KitKat on your Galaxy S 4? Unless you have a Google Play edition GS4, you’ve been waiting for a while now. Last fall, a few weeks following the release of KitKat, we got to look at a leaked schedule that appeared to reveal Samsung’s plans for making Android 4.4 updates available to several of its both current and past flagship ...
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Mere hours ago we told you about the unexpected availability of HTC One Android 4.4 KitKat updates in Canada, despite HTC’s apology earlier this week that it wouldn’t be able to deliver the software in the US and Canada within the 90 day window it had set out to. The company won points for being open about its failings, and it’s not like the update was supposed to take that much longer to arrive. Earlier this evening, when we got word ...
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No, we’re not having Canada Fridays here at Pocketnow (is that a thing? That should be a thing), but we’ve got a little follow-up to a story from earlier this week that hails to us from the Great White North, as we check out HTC’s ongoing progress to make Android 4.4 KitKat updates available for its 2013 flagship, the HTC One. As we told you on Wednesday, HTC announced that it wouldn’t be able to quite hit its goal of having HTC One ...
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With the release of Android 4.4 KitKat, we saw Google introduce a new virtual machine, giving users the opportunity to switch from the just-in-time compilation of the familiar Dalvik VM to one using ahead-of-time compilation, the Android Runtime ART. With KitKat, ART was added as a bit of a preview – it wasn’t the default VM, and while our experiments with it revealed a lot of promise, initial load time and the threat of compatibility issues were still factors that gave us ...
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I’ve been a T-Mobile customer for well over a decade. Since I picked up my T-Mobile G1 (way back in the day) I’ve been a happy user of both the carrier and Android as a platform. As time progressed I loved the ability to tether other devices to my smartphone and use some of my 5GB of data on a tablet or laptop. I was never a heavy user of tethered data, and only used it when WiFi wasn’t an option. Then T-Mobile tried to tell everyone that “tethered data” was somehow different from “device data” and phones ...
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When it rains, it pours, and hot off the news of Canonical discontinuing Ubuntu Touch development for a number of Nexus phones and tablets, we’re switching focus to HTC, as the manufacturer confirms that a couple of its own handsets are hitting the end of the road with their own platform updates. The phones in question are the One X, as well as the slightly upgraded One X+. Following rumors that the One X+ wouldn’t see the arrival of any KitKat update, HTC stepped ...
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Watch today’s Pocketnow Daily as we talk about Sony’s new strategy to attend the US market, which the company chose to abandon just a couple of months ago, aside from more rumors of a Sony Windows Phone as well. Then we go through Samsung’s new leaks of Android 4.4 KitKat for the Galaxy S 4, and some disappointing facts about it. Meizu and Ubuntu are next as new leaks prove the MX3 to be the next Ubuntu mobile phone. Apple takes the stage after that since its new patent proves some Optical Image Stabilization love for the iPhone 6. We end today’s show talking about ...
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When Android started making the move away from hardware buttons, and giving manufacturers the option to present users with fully on-screen virtual buttons, it sounded like we were moving towards a promising future where Android might feel more consistent across devices – you wouldn’t go from using one phone to being confused with another, offering a different assortment of buttons with a different layout. Sadly, that still hasn’t quite happened, and plenty of OEMs keep clinging to those hardware buttons ...
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Sure, Android 4.4.1 might be the new hotness, but we’ve still got a huge backlog of phones that need to see the arrival of Android 4.4 updates in the first place before they can even start thinking about the likes of 4.4.1. Some manufacturers have been more forthcoming about their plans then others; with Samsung, we’ve been relying on leaks in order to give us our most specific information about its update strategy. The last one we saw laid out a schedule for ...
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After far too much speculation, Android 4.4 KitKat has finally arrived. Those who have a Nexus 5 got the latest version of the operating system right out of the gate. Other Nexus owners (Nexus 4, and both iterations of the Nexus 7) had to wait a little longer. Moto Xers and those with Google Play editions have been getting their ...
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Update: Google has confirmed that 4.4.1 is on its way out as of today. If you’re comfortable with sideloading updates over ADB, the Nexus 5 4.4.1 update is available for download here. It was just yesterday that we were telling you about
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Every time a new version of Android comes out it’s only natural that people will want to run it on their Android-powered device — even if it’s not a Nexus. Nexus devices usually get the latest version of Android faster than their OEM counterparts, but there are still some things that you can do to get a KitKat experience on your non-KitKat device today! First of all you’ll need a smartphone or tablet running Android 4.0 or higher. The phone I’ll show you in the video isn’t exactly “old” (it’s a Sprint HTC One Max), but the same process ...
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It was practically an inevitability: now that Android 4.4 has arrived, it’s only a matter of time until 4.4.1 shows up to replace it. That leaves us with the big questions of not only when it will ultimately launch, but what changes will be present in the code. While we don’t have any hard answers for the moment, it looks like Google hasn’t been wasting any time getting started on 4.4.1, as devices running the software show up in server logs. 4.4.1′s been spotted on the Nexus 4, Nexus 5, and Nexus 7, with IPs ...
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