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Google is Paving The Way for Android 4.4 by Updating Apps

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The Nexus 5 and Android 4.4 might be arriving very soon, but Google has already been working on updating all of its apps on the Play Store, a couple of days before the Kit Kat announcement. They’ve just updated all of these apps (Hangouts may still not be updated for everyone yet, but it should be soon, which means you can enjoy SMS support): Blogger Calendar Chrome Drive Earth Gmail Goggles Google+ Hangouts Keep Play Magazines Translate Wallet This isn’t exactly the first time Google has done this, although perhaps they’ve never updated so many apps at once, and around the time of the new Android version launch. This may be because there could be a lot of new changes under the hood for Android 4.4, and Google needed to upgrade all of its apps to take advantage of those changes. That also means that unless you will get Android 4.4 soon, you might not be able to take advantage of those changes. Since Google is going to get the Linux kernel 3.10, if they took advantage of the kernel’s

Rumor: Nexus 5 and Android 4.4, KitKat, Not Launching Until November

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The Nexus 5 has been rumored to be launching in October for a long time now and the KitKat Twitter account has been making all sorts of hints that it’s coming then but now, we’re hearing that the Nexus 5 and KitKat won’t be launching until next month. Of course, this is jut another rumor but, according to  Phones Review   the Nexus 5 and KitKat have been delayed and neither will be launching until next month. That doesn’t mean that Google won’t be going ahead with whatever press event they even planned to unveil the new Nexus and their latest version of the OS but, it does mean that the devices themselves won’t be shipping until a later date. How reliable is this rumor? Well, not very if we’re honest but, a delay is relatively likely. After all, that would explain why we’ve seen the device leak out so many times now, see it pass through the FCC and yet we’ve heard nothing from Google on the subject. In fact, the press event that they’re holding later on today is apparently going to foc

Google Sending out Invites for October 24 Event: Nexus 5 and Android 4.4 Release

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Update : According to the source of this invite, Russell Holly, who is always spot on with his information, there will be no new hardware at this event. Google, quit playing games with my heart! Original article : Among a myriad of leaks and rumors and conspiracy theories, Google is finally sending out press invites to an October 24 event inviting everyone to join them for a “night out with Google Play.” That’s right, just six days from now, Google will be unveiling the latest and greatest products they’ve been cooking up in Mountain View. The invite is rather bland, and doesn’t mention anything about Android, KitKat or the Nexus 5, but it’s hard to imagine Google throwing an event right now without announcing everything you need to know on the update and handset. We might even get some Nexus 10, Google Watch and Android TV news if we’re lucky. The event itself kicks off at 7PM EDT in New York City. Google has been known to stream their events through YouTube, we imagine this event w

Leaked Images of Supposedly Android 4.4 KitKat

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Last night we found a few Android 4.4 images. Mainly of the dialer and Messaging apps. Now there are a few more images that have cropped up, depicting Android 4.4 on what appears to be a Nexus 4. Now we aren’t sure if this is the Nexus 4 that was released last year, or if they’ll be calling the new Nexus coming next month the Nexus 4 as well. They did it with the Nexus 7, so it wouldn’t surprise me. The images here show us some new icons too. They all look more flat, similar to the new Google logo, which looks really nice in my opinion. The status bar is also different now. It appears to change colors to match the app that you are currently in. Which is a nice touch, although I think I’d rather have a transparent status bar like Touchwiz and LG has in their launcher. In these pictures you can see a different looking status bar in each one. And it looks like some apps have a gray navigation bar while others are still black. It would be cool if that changed per app as well. It’s defin

Android 4.4 KitKat Design: Keyboard and Phone App Redesigned

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The folks over at  9to5Google  have just posted a couple of screenshots of what they believe to be pictures of a redesigned phone and messaging app, probably coming in Android 4.4. We’ve seen in the past that Google has been moving towards a lighter theme. A good example of that is the Google Play Store and Google Now. We know Android 4.4 is due to be announced in October, and we’ve already seen what we thought was a leak about new icons. Not really new, but instead of blue, they are now gray. Which you can’t really tell in the images in this post, but they do appear to be gray. It also looks like Google took a hint from Paranoid Android. As in the Messaging app, you’ll notice the status bar is green, like the messaging icon, and blue in the Phone app, like the header and bottom of the app. Also in the Messaging app, you’ll notice that Mr Jingles is there. He’s from the Google+ notification tray. I wonder if you tap him, if he’ll jingle like he does on Google+? As 9to5Google states, yo

Android 4.4 KitKat to have 64-Bit Support

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It was just last week when our friends up in Cupertino announced that the iPhone 5S will be launching with 64 bit support. Apple may not be the only player in town when it comes to adapting the 64 bit architecture on a mobile phone. Thanks to a photo that was reportedly taken at an Intel Developer Forum, 64bit support is slated as a future enhancement to Android. Although the word “Kit Kat” was not in the photo, if true, the timing may not be a coincidence. If this photo is legitimate, we may have also gotten our first glimpse of some of the changes that may be appearing in Android 4.4 Kit Kat including NDK Apps Bridging Technology and a Highly Tuned Dalvik Runtime. If these features are correct, they will help speed up the execution of applications. It is important to note that if Android 4.4 Kit Kat does indeed implement initial support for 64 bit processing, you will need to have a device that can take advantage of the new architecture to run in 64 bit mode. So no, your Nexus 4 (