Google launched its latest sweet-themed Androidoperating system just in time for Halloween: KitKat.
Right
now, it's only available on the Nexus 5, which just went on sale in the Google
Play store. Other Nexus device users will get it sometime in November, while
other Android owners will get it whenever their carrier decides to upgrade
them.
Google holds out the hope
that KitKat is the one Android version that will rule them all; it has been
designed for the slowest of smartphones as well as speed machines like the
Nexus 5. So for all those users still struggling on Android 2.3 Gingerbread (that
would be roughly a third of all Android users), the KitKat upgrade is a huge
deal.
The
interface is full of incremental improvements. Scrolling is faster; fonts look
sharper. Emoji icons have been added to the keyboard. There are no more widgets
to worry about. A translucent search bar sits at the top of each of your pages
of apps. Fire up a game or open an e-book, and the UI goes away altogether.
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