Android Community Weekly Wrap-Up for November 30, 2013

This was a holiday week for those in the US market, and as we often see, that meant a sort of slow down for news and other announcements. While the week overall was on the slower side in terms of device and update news, there were a few goodies that popped up this week. Notably, Motorola was once again in the limelight with the earlier than expected US release of the Moto G.

For those who missed it, Motorola surprised everyone back on the 26th when they released the GSM variant of the Moto G. The handset arrived with support for T-Mobile and AT&T and perhaps more important — at the expected price point, which begins at $179 for the 8GB model. The one catch with this early release, the Moto G will arrive with Android 4.3 Jelly Bean as opposed to Android 4.4 Kit Kat. Though, Motorola has already said the Kit Kat update is planned for early 2014.

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