Happy birthday, Android 4.4! Your present is death. In a short and sweet blog from Google, we got the news that Android 4.4 Kitkat is officially dead. Google is going ...

Arol is a tech journalist who worked as a news and feature writer for Android Police from 2021 to 2023. He first began writing online for the short-lived portal of Spanish-language gaming forum ...

The Android ecosystem rightfully gets a lot of slack for being unable to deliver operating system updates to everyone in a timely manner, but there's more to Android updates than just OS support. App ...

My HTC One isn’t running Android 4.4 KitKat, but it feels pretty close. I just downloaded several apps that come standard with Google‘s Nexus 5. The apps were graciously posted by Droid Life, and when ...

Still, fragmentation remains a thorn in the side of Android, especially compared with the relative ease of Apple's iOS updates. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former ...

Google has announced that Google Play services will discontinue support for Android KitKat. The active device count for Android 4.4 has reportedly fallen to under 1%. Devices on KitKat will stop being ...

Until now, the main thing we’ve known for sure about the next version of Google‘s Android mobile operating system is its name: KitKat. But at a media event this morning, Google provided its first ...

It’s been nearly a decade since Google released Android 4.4 KitKat, which brought memory improvements, initial support for identifying the source of phone calls from unknown numbers, the introduction ...

The latest version of Android is designed to work on both low- and high-end phones, which will hopefully end OS fragmentation. Roger Cheng Former Executive Editor / Head of News Roger Cheng ...

The number of Android devices using KitKat 4.4 increased to 39.1% at the beginning of January. Figures released by Google show that the operating system jumped by 5.2% since the month before, but the ...

Google shared today that Play services is dropping support for Android 4.4 KitKat, which is nearly 10 years old, in August. When Android devices stop getting monthly OS updates, they continue to ...

14 Samsung phones and tablets are getting Google’s latest OS. Starting today, Samsung will be updating 14 of its Galaxy-branded smartphones and tablets to the latest version of Google’s mobile ...