Introducing Android 4.4...KitKat

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What ? Is this April fools joke ?

What happened to Android 5.0 "K" named desert, launching on the upcoming Nexus-Five phone ?
 
So now Google goes with corporate buyouts on naming Android releases ? Who's gonna pay for Android 4.5 "L" ? Lemonheads ?
 
Wait, a major corporation is using a cross market tie-in to push sales of the newest version of it's product!!!?? The nerve!
 
OK, who cares on the naming already, what's 4.4 all about ? Is 4.4 first launching on the Nexus-Five phone ? And is the N5 coming sooner than later ? With the recent price drop on the N4, and selling out of the 8GB phone and not restocking it, sounds like the new Nexus phone is coming soon.
 
Zorachus said:
OK, who cares on the naming already, what's 4.4 all about ? Is 4.4 first launching on the Nexus-Five phone ? And is the N5 coming sooner than later ? With the recent price drop on the N4, and selling out of the 8GB phone and not restocking it, sounds like the new Nexus phone is coming soon.
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I didn't think they'd go for a 4th full revision of the OS but this couldn't hurt. Did we even get confirmation that 5.0 exists?
 
Trimlock said:
I didn't think they'd go for a 4th full revision of the OS but this couldn't hurt. Did we even get confirmation that 5.0 exists?
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Nope never had confirmation. It was all assumption based on zero evidence.

Zorachus said:
OK, who cares on the naming already, what's 4.4 all about ? Is 4.4 first launching on the Nexus-Five phone ? And is the N5 coming sooner than later ? With the recent price drop on the N4, and selling out of the 8GB phone and not restocking it, sounds like the new Nexus phone is coming soon.
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Why does the number matter? 2.2 to 2.3 was a pretty big jump in what the OS could do. They could come out and call it Android elevenity billion if they wanted to.

Expect 4.4 to be on the N5.
 
Vermillion said:
Why does the number matter? 2.2 to 2.3 was a pretty big jump in what the OS could do. They could come out and call it Android elevenity billion if they wanted to.
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This is Zorachus, Android updates is srs bsns.
 
Product placement is the name of the game in 21st-Century advertising.

That said, who cares?
(thats a rhetorical question)
 
Zorachus said:
What ? Is this April fools joke ?

What happened to Android 5.0 "K" named desert, launching on the upcoming Nexus-Five phone ?
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Kinda shows you how stupid it is to parrot rumors that have no real sources and amount to literally nothing more than fanboy speculation and clickbait
 
Zorachus said:
So now Google goes with corporate buyouts on naming Android releases ? Who's gonna pay for Android 4.5 "L" ? Lemonheads ?
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Then M&M, Nerds, Oreo, Pocky (because weeaboo), Quench Gum, Reese's Pieces, Skittles, Twix, Unicorn Pops, Valium, Werther's Original (because Android will need to retire by this point), Xtreem Kokos Lock Jaw, York Peppermint Patties, and Zagnut.
 
I figured it was going for desert names, not candy names.

Don't really give a crap about names but I'd be interested in what they plan for 4.4.
 
Zorachus said:
So now Google goes with corporate buyouts on naming Android releases ? Who's gonna pay for Android 4.5 "L" ? Lemonheads ?
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This is a good thing IMO. Cross promotion will gain Android marketshare causing the rest of the industry to catch up. Win win.
 
Naming rights aside, lets here what 4.4 is all about ? Is 4.4 the big one, like we have been thinking Android 5.0 KLP was the next big thing ? Or is 4.4 just another 4.2 to 4.3 type update, and there still is a huge 5.0 release coming this Winter / Spring ?

4.4 go down like the big jump between Android 2.1 and 2.2 or was it 2.2 to 2.3 Gingerbread the big update, without moving to full next number.
 
I don't think we'll see any more big updates unless there is some revolutionary new tech... which I haven't even seen on the horizon. The mobile space has leveled off a bit recently.

The 2 --> 3 --> 4 updates were more about working around the tablet fiasco.
 
Why Android 4.4 KitKat is a horrible, yet brilliant name
http://www.androidauthority.com/android-4-4-kitkat-horrible-yet-brilliant-name-261836/

If you hadn’t heard yet, the next version of Android will be called Android 4.4 KitKat, despite the name Key Lime Pie being hinted at by Google itself. According to a BBC report, the name for the next version of Android was decided in about an hour and the name was guarded so well that even most Google employees were unaware of the name.

Google had a perfectly good name for the next version of Android in Key Lime Pie, so why use the name Kit Kat? According to Langering it’s because few people actually know what the taste of Key Lime Pie is.


Google was internally calling the next update after 4.3 "Key Lime Pie"
Google Trolls IO13 Attendees with Android Key Lime Pie Teasers
http://www.androidauthority.com/goo...ees-with-android-key-lime-pie-teasers-213280/
 
4.4 really shouldn't have any big updates, except maybe some better security profiles.

5.0 I doubt will be anything spectacular, maybe a different driver model, although at this point in time may be worthless.

What else can they add? I can see them improving performance by trimming the OS more like they did in 4.3.
 
I was thinking about this and came to a speculative conclusion that maybe Google has been having some serious dev issues with 5.0 KLP much in the same manner as 3.0 HC (they ultimately had to limit it to tablets only, iirc), so they pulled a fast one and announced what is just a stepping stone revision update to 4.x ICS/JB as a whole new OS version, ala 4.4 KitKat. You know, something they have been doing from the very beginning.

1.0 - "A" Alpha?
1.2 - "B" Beta?
1.5 - Cupcake
1.6 - Donut
2.0 - Eclair
2.2 - FroYo
2.3 - Gingerbread
3.0 - Honeycomb
4.0 - Ice Cream Sandwich
4.1 - Jelly Bean
4.4 - KitKat
x.x - "L"? Perhaps 5.0 was referred to as KLP to give it a few place holder options. Now that K is officially taken, they might use L for 5.0. Or maybe we have to wait through multiple 4.x revisions using L, M, N, and O to get a 5.0 using P. Dunno *shrug*
 
DejaWiz said:
I was thinking about this and came to a speculative conclusion that maybe Google has been having some serious dev issues with 5.0 KLP much in the same manner as 3.0 HC (they ultimately had to limit it to tablets only, iirc), so they pulled a fast one and announced what is just a stepping stone revision update to 4.x ICS/JB as a whole new OS version, ala 4.4 KitKat. You know, something they have been doing from the very beginning.

1.0 - "A" Alpha?
1.2 - "B" Beta?
1.5 - Cupcake
1.6 - Donut
2.0 - Eclair
2.2 - FroYo
2.3 - Gingerbread
3.0 - Honeycomb
4.0 - Ice Cream Sandwich
4.1 - Jelly Bean
4.4 - KitKat
x.x - "L"? Perhaps 5.0 was referred to as KLP to give it a few place holder options. Now that K is officially taken, they might use L for 5.0. Or maybe we have to wait through multiple 4.x revisions using L, M, N, and O to get a 5.0 using P. Dunno *shrug*
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It could be, or maybe they are still making up for lost ground with 4.2.

I think 4.4 will be the last update for the 4.x series. What this revision will give us, I have no clue, the other releases had some pre release notes, this has nothing. Almost has me excited.
 
As long as it's using Linux kernel 3.8. If it's still on 3.0, I'm skipping yet another Android iteration. Really, I'm not even sure if my next phone will even run Android at this point. The top 2 guys on the Android project already left because of driver issues, particularly arising from Qualcomm which is a company I've also hated for a while for doing their custom ARM cores that aren't as good as the vanilla ARM cores.

Linux has a lot of positive traits, but because it's under constant revision, it means drivers need to be constantly be updated or even replaced... And few companies do a good job keeping up.
 
Skripka said:
Last I knew the stock VPN client built into Android never worked when you selected persistent connection.
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Yeah, i couldn't get built in VPN working, and ended up having to install an OpenVPN client. May well be that I'm an idiot and was just setting the server up wrong, but why not integrate OpenVPN?
 
Who gives a shit what they call it. I just can't see a huge upgrade in performance like we saw from 2.3 to 4.0 when 4.0 came out I was a happy camper
 
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