Galaxy S4 and Note 3 should receive Android 'KitKat' in late January - Globo.com

The two tops

line of smartphones Samsung Galaxy S4 and Galaxy Note 3 should receive the update to Android 4.4 “Kitkat” until the end of January. Information is a provider of telephony and French, as usual, should begin only in Europe, reaching other markets in the following months.

Galaxy S4 is one of the smartphones to receive the Android Kitkat early 2014 (Photo: Allan Melo / TechTudo)

Currently

both smartphones run Android 4.2 ‘Jelly Bean’, though many have already been updated to version 4.3. The latter did not bring major changes to the user because it is more geared towards secondary system improvements.

Android 4.4, on the other hand, has brought significant improvements and new features, such as the yellow pages function in the dialer, which can provide business to enter numbers and receive calls, and the integration of Google Now with applications, which should generate results further customized. The visual improvements, however, should not reach Samsung devices, since the TouchWiz interface is a modified version of the system.

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common is that Samsung includes new features in the latest versions of Android, but the addition of resources is taken normally only releases new appliances. As the Korean company should only announce new models at CES next, until then it is possible that there is no extra function assigned by Samsung on Android.

period of late January, as reported by the French operator, possibly worth only to users in Europe, so smartphones Galaxy Note 3 Brazilian and S4 may still take a little longer to receive the upgrade. This happens because the Brazilian operators test and modify the system in their laboratories before releasing the download.

Via Android Community.