Friday, November 29, 2013

Android 4.4 KitKat review: Incremental but crunchier

New Delhi: An operating system version named after a candy bar I grew up eating (and still occasionally do), Android 4.4 KitKat, is the biggest Android release since Android 4.1 appeared about a-year-and-a-half ago.
I had to wait a little before the OTA could make its way to my Nexus 4 but and appeared almost at the same time as the Nexus 5's review unit (you can read out first impressions of the Nexus 5 here). The upgrade process from Jelly Bean 4.3 to KitKat 4.4 didn't take too long.

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The first change while powering on the phone is that on KitKat it takes a little longer to boot than on Jelly Bean 4.2. As the phone turns on, four spinning circles in blue, red, green and yellow (the Google colours) displays on the screen while the OS loads.

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