Android By Lee Mathews Feb. 19, 2014 12:54 pm
Samsung has detailed rollout plans for the Android 4.4.2 update, and more than a dozen devices have made the cut. As usual, there’s good news and bad news for Samsung device owners depending on which Galaxy phone or tablet you’re waiting to see updated.
Which Samsung phones and tablets are getting KitKat? The Galaxy Note 3, Galaxy Note II, Galaxy S 4 and its variants (mini, Active, and zoom), the Galaxy S3 and S3 mini, the oversized Galaxy Mega, Galaxy Light, Galaxy Note 8.0, Galaxy Tab 3, and both the original Galaxy Note 10.1 and its 2014 update.
It’s good to see the Galaxy Note 10.1 is getting KitKat, because Samsung didn’t exactly do a great job pushing updates out to the first big-screen Note. Delays with the delivery of Android 4.1.2 had some Samsung faithful seeing red back in 2012.
Unfortunately, even though Google devoted a lot of time and effort to making sure that KitKat ran well on lower-end Android devices there aren’t any Galaxy S2 variants on Samsung’s list. That’s a bit disappointing, since some — like the Galaxy S2 4G — didn’t launch until later on in 2012. The Galaxy S2 Plus isn’t included either, and it wasn’t announced until CES 2013.
Thanks to Project Svelte, KitKat has a reduced footprint that should have no problem fitting on a phone like the S2 Plus. The fact that Samsung’s chosen to leave it off the list may have more to do with the popularity of the phone itself. Still, it’s always disappointing to hear that a one-year-old device has already fallen off a manufacturer’s update list.
Samsung Galaxy devices that will be getting the Android 4.4.2 should start seeing it any time now. The company didn’t specify exactly when particular devices will receive the update, and as always carriers will have their say in scheduling delivery, too.
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Which Samsung phones and tablets are getting KitKat? The Galaxy Note 3, Galaxy Note II, Galaxy S 4 and its variants (mini, Active, and zoom), the Galaxy S3 and S3 mini, the oversized Galaxy Mega, Galaxy Light, Galaxy Note 8.0, Galaxy Tab 3, and both the original Galaxy Note 10.1 and its 2014 update.
It’s good to see the Galaxy Note 10.1 is getting KitKat, because Samsung didn’t exactly do a great job pushing updates out to the first big-screen Note. Delays with the delivery of Android 4.1.2 had some Samsung faithful seeing red back in 2012.
Unfortunately, even though Google devoted a lot of time and effort to making sure that KitKat ran well on lower-end Android devices there aren’t any Galaxy S2 variants on Samsung’s list. That’s a bit disappointing, since some — like the Galaxy S2 4G — didn’t launch until later on in 2012. The Galaxy S2 Plus isn’t included either, and it wasn’t announced until CES 2013.
Thanks to Project Svelte, KitKat has a reduced footprint that should have no problem fitting on a phone like the S2 Plus. The fact that Samsung’s chosen to leave it off the list may have more to do with the popularity of the phone itself. Still, it’s always disappointing to hear that a one-year-old device has already fallen off a manufacturer’s update list.
Samsung Galaxy devices that will be getting the Android 4.4.2 should start seeing it any time now. The company didn’t specify exactly when particular devices will receive the update, and as always carriers will have their say in scheduling delivery, too.
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