{"id":90441,"date":"2013-10-31T20:47:49","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T18:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=90441"},"modified":"2013-11-01T09:42:06","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T07:42:06","slug":"android-4-4-kitkat-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/90441-android-4-4-kitkat-launched.html","title":{"rendered":"Android 4.4 KitKat launched"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google<\/a> launched the latest version of Android<\/a> (4.4), \u201cKitKat\u201d, on Thursday, 31 October 2013 along with its new flagship smartphone, Nexus 5<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Based on teaser images posted by Nestl\u00e9 and Google to their social media channels, rumours emerged that the new version of the operating system would launch on 28 October 2013.<\/p>\n

The conclusions drawn from the teasers proved to be false, along with reports that the launch of the Nexus 5 and Android KitKat were pushed back to November 2013.<\/p>\n

However, many of the rumours of the new features in Android KitKat have been proven true.<\/p>\n

Among them is the lower minimum memory requirement of 512MB in Android KitKat, which Google said on its Android Developer blog kicks of \u201cProject Svelte\u201d.<\/p>\n

Google also announced changes to the phone and messaging apps.<\/p>\n

Users of Google\u2019s new phone application will be able to search across their contacts, nearby places, or Google Apps accounts (such a company directory), directly from within the app.<\/p>\n

SMS and MMS messages have also been moved out of their own app into Google Hangouts app, the search giant confirmed.<\/p>\n

Availability<\/h3>\n

The new Nexus 5 smartphone, which was built by LG for Google, ships with Android 4.4 \u201cKitKat\u201d.<\/p>\n

Google also announced that the new version of Android will soon be available on Nexus 4, 7, 10, and the Samsung Galaxy S4<\/a> and HTC One Google Play edition devices \u201cin the coming weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n

More Android and smartphone news<\/h3>\n

LG G Flex curved smartphone revealed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

LG G2 launched in South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Best-selling smartphones in South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Android 4.4 KitKat announced<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google has announced the launch of the new version of its Android mobile operating system<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":86099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[397,21287,167,35,21289],"class_list":["post-90441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-android","tag-android-4-4-kitkat","tag-google","tag-headline","tag-nestle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90441"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90853,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90441\/revisions\/90853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}