Google Android KitKat

[mhsabir]

I know. I am just saying that its not official till its official

 

[LordSpymaster]

They must've done it on purpose. Not refusing the name KLP and then surprising everyone with a new name. Smart Move Google.

 

[Andro]

Whatever the name we want good new features.

 

[SVK]

http://tech2.in.com/news/smartphones/forget-key-lime-pie-android-44-to-be-called-kitkat/912956

Interestingly, even Google employees, who kept referring to the next iteration of Android as Key Lime Pie, were kept in the dark about the deal. "We kept calling the name Key Lime Pie internally and even when we referred to it with partners," said Lagerling. The version was also referred with its first letter “K” which was not to be Key Lime Piue but KitKat.
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Lagerling also has another explanation for not sticking to Key Lime Pie as the name. "We realised that very few people actually know the taste of a key lime pie," he explained. KitKat, however, is a taste well known around the world. "One of the snacks that we keep in our kitchen for late-night coding are KitKats. And someone said: 'Hey, why don't we call the release KitKat?'”
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There’s yet another tit-bit about why KitKat, of all chocolates, was chosen to be the face of Android. Legend has it that Android’s Engineering Head Hiroshi Lockheimer is crazy about KitKats. His Gmail avatar was a KitKat bar for the longest time and the team once even decorated his office with bars of KitKat.

 

[Supernatural]

http://www.gsmarena.com/did_google_accidentally_showcase_a_new_nexus_smartphone-news-6718.php
omg ... Hell no for 5" >.<

 

[Sushubh]

calm down. there are likely to be two nexus smartphones launch this year.

 

[Nishant]

So as this is 4.4 and not 5.0 there would not be any drastic changes like we saw between 2.3.x and 4.x

 

[Sushubh]

The page states:
Android 4.4, KitKatIt's our goal with Android KitKat to make an amazing Android experience available for everybody.
Which indicates the already clear fact that they are going to focus on improving support on lower end hardware. In fact, I am hearing that Google might adopt the Apple/Microsoft approach of multi-tasking with Android 4.4 to improve performance on low end devices with pseudo multi-tasking.

 

[Nishant]

It's our goal with Android KitKat to make an amazing Android experience available for everybody.

This could also mean that Android would no longer be limited to phones/tablets.
I mean, though there are other devices with Android as the OS, but it was not a success it seems. They would now be concentrating to make the OS popular with such devices.

 

[Sushubh]

Android@Home has existed for so long now. It's Google which has not taken it seriously until now.
Nokia now that they are free of the headaches of the mobile division are now focusing big time on their Here platform.
We might soon have more cars with Here in it than Apple Maps or Google Maps.