Saturday, June 21, 2014

Android 4.4.3 coming soon to Galaxy S5 and Note 3


Samsung is apparently getting closer and closer to releasing its first software versions based on Android Kitkat 4.4.3.

The first devices to get an Android 4.4.3 build from Samsung are going to be the Galaxy S5 and the Galaxy Note 3. As these are right now Samsung's flagships in their respective market segments.

According to a purportedly leaked internal document, the Android 4.4.3 updates for both Snapdragon and Exynos versions of the Galaxy S5 have been finalized and are due out before the end of this month.
In the case of the Galaxy Note 3, development has reached the final testing stage. If all goes well, the new bits should be ready to roll out to users sometime in July.

One thing to note is that the document pictured above has some odd font differences in it, which may indicate a bad Photoshop job.

Further complicating things is the fact that Google has just released Android 4.4.4 to its Nexus devices, a version that seems to contain a pretty important security fix.

That leads us to wonder: will Samsung first release 4.4.3 for its devices only to then start working on what is now the latest version of the OS? Or will it choose to skip 4.4.3 altogether and simply come out with a 4.4.4 build, even if that means delaying the release for a short while?

Since the newest iteration of Android isn't bringing new things to the table, just fixing bugs, the latter hypothesis isn't completely implausible.

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