New Android devices may be required to rotate the KitKat - Tecmundo

Although Android devices considered high end rotate with the updated operating system, smartphones and tablets more modest run prior to the current KitKat versions. If you rely on Google, this practice must cease henceforth.

According to Bloom Mobile site, a document that supposedly came from the Android development team, was sent to all major manufacturers and states that Google will not approve the GMS distribution for new products that are running older versions operating system. This means that all devices, be they high ends and low ends (cheaper), will run Android 4.4 KitKat factory.

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Mobile Bloom, the change would start already in February. Without the approval of the GMS (Google Mobile Services), the devices would run Android applications base, as Maps, and Google Hangouts Now, with even the operating system can store becomes unavailable.

If the document is real, several manufacturers can do with a big problem at hand, since the sale of low-cost smartphones, with more modest settings and previous versions of Android, moves large numbers in emerging markets.

If installing KitKat become mandatory devices would have to be more expensive to accommodate a configuration that runs the latest operating system updates.

This can end up causing other mobile operating systems such as Windows Phone, which has been growing at a steady pace, and other OSes as FirefoxOS and Tizem become alternatives for manufacturers to use in low-cost handsets.

So far, Google has not commented on the matter.