Android Kit Kat...

kona786 · 3 Sep 2013 at 18:18

It's already started

Nestle plans to sell more than 50 million chocolate bars featuring the Android mascot

thep02 · 3 Sep 2013 at 18:23

^ I reckon they'll sell way more than 50m that's not even a bar for every phone Samsung will sell.

Snax · 3 Sep 2013 at 19:10

Given that it is a .4 release, do we think the major change will be android running on phones with low specs (with holo being regarded as too new to change)?

That would make sense with the tag line as well I.e android will work to a good level on much cheaper phones this opening up the markets in the third world.

shadow_boxer · 3 Sep 2013 at 19:11

Lol. Android 4.4 KitKat awesome marketing! Wonder whos paying who?

...and surely 4 makes sense with the whole 4 bars in a kit kat!

Nexus18 · 3 Sep 2013 at 19:14

meh, key lime pie was far better! Also hate kit kats!

Going by the android version, guessing we won't see any major changes again.........

Hopefully it won't be as buggy as the previous new versions

Orcvader · 3 Sep 2013 at 19:16

shadow_boxer said:
Lol. Android 4.4 KitKat awesome marketing! Wonder whos paying who?

...and surely 4 makes sense with the whole 4 bars in a kit kat!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23926938

However, Google told the BBC that it had come up with the idea and that neither side was paying the other.

Seems like a very friendly relationship between the two...

aayzof · 3 Sep 2013 at 19:18

This news has given me a big old hairy rod-on.

Steve_bullockuk · 3 Sep 2013 at 19:22

Think I am the only person that thinks it is a lot better than Keylime Pie.

escape sanity · 3 Sep 2013 at 19:31

Steve_bullockuk said:
Think I am the only person that thinks it is a lot better than Keylime Pie.

You're not. Even if the only reason I prefer it is because I don't need to google to figure out what a Kit Kat is.

Tunney · 3 Sep 2013 at 19:42

Mediocre, unsatisfying and fragmented then?

biron_w · 3 Sep 2013 at 19:43

insane200 said:
Android 5.0 will be Monster energy

No. It'll be Lion Bar.

RichIbizaSport · 3 Sep 2013 at 19:56

I thought it was a joke at first, then read it on the BBC.....

Much prefer KLP

Goates · 3 Sep 2013 at 19:59

Wait I've traveled forward in time and its April the 1st haven't I?

Deluxe1 · 3 Sep 2013 at 20:01

The advert is class.

Skyboat · 3 Sep 2013 at 20:10

escape sanity said:
You're not. Even if the only reason I prefer it is because I don't need to google to figure out what a Kit Kat is.

You can buy key lime pies in Tesco, they're nice

Orcvader · 3 Sep 2013 at 20:18

KitKat 4.4 features revealed:

Looks very nice, seems like this is the best upcoming thing in a while.

EDIT: No shops seems to be stocking KitKat 4.4 yet

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_Jimlad_ · 3 Sep 2013 at 20:25

this release will be all about getting every device on it. that is what is needed to break up the fragmentation and issues with apps not working on certain phones

Nexus18 · 3 Sep 2013 at 20:42

Don't see how that will be possible as I am pretty sure that all the OEMs (especially the companies who have LOADS of devices like Samsung and Sony) will not want to spend time and money updating old phones, heck they don't even want to provide the smallest of android updates i.e. 4.1 to 4.2

Unless.......google can somehow provide an OTA update without OEM's involvement but again that just brings a whole ton of problems in if they do that.

Also, I don't think google are concerned about the fragmentation issue:

http://www.phonearena.com/news/Android-co-creator-Fragmentation-an-overblown-issue_id45183

_Jimlad_ · 3 Sep 2013 at 23:44

Nexus18 said:
Don't see how that will be possible as I am pretty sure that all the OEMs (especially the companies who have LOADS of devices like Samsung and Sony) will not want to spend time and money updating old phones, heck they don't even want to provide the smallest of android updates i.e. 4.1 to 4.2

Unless.......google can somehow provide an OTA update without OEM's involvement but again that just brings a whole ton of problems in if they do that.

Also, I don't think google are concerned about the fragmentation issue:

http://www.phonearena.com/news/Android-co-creator-Fragmentation-an-overblown-issue_id45183

well the theme of JB was "butter smooth" and now for KK it seems to be "Android experience to everybody"

so we shall see,

Nexus18 · 4 Sep 2013 at 00:10

True! I really do hope to see something to fix/improve the fragmentation issue as that is the only weak point of android compared to iOS and windows now imo.

Hopefully not much longer....