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Nexus S Gets Android 4.4 KitKat ROM, Runs “Pretty Fast”

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Since Galaxy Nexus, which already had more than good enough hardware to run KitKat, isn’t receiving an official upgrade from Google, you won’t be seeing one for Nexus S either. But that doesn’t mean the ROM community will just leave it behind. In fact there is already a KitKat ROM for it that’s said to be “running pretty fast”. The Nexus S could very well be the poster child for KitKat – it has only 512 MB of RAM (exactly how much Google is saying is required to run KitKat smootly), a 1 Ghz single core ARMv7-based Cortex A8 processor, and 16 GB of storage. So in theory, there’s nothing wrong with the device, and there’s no reason why it shouldn’t run KitKat well, if what Google said was true. XDA member  cn.fyodor  wanted to prove  that theory, and even though he’s only been working for a few days on a KitKat build for his Nexus S, the ROM seems to be working pretty well. The ROM is still alpha though, so some things like some Google Apps aren’t working properly, you’ll be able to ma