HTC and LG follow Motorola with Android 4.4 updates

It looks like Google’s PDK skeleton for Android are finally operative out, given OEMs are pulling 4.4 updates to their flagship phones in record time.

In a past, being an Android handset owners has been a genuine let down when it was time for a subsequent chronicle of a mobile OS to be released. Unless we owned a right Nexus device on a right carrier, updates have taken months in a past. It’s a lot of tough work to build these updates given a manufacturers aren’t regulating a Android Open Source Project as their base, and even after they have succeeded in updating their inclination it can be weeks and weeks before carriers in a US approve a updates and start releasing them.

Android 4.4 seems to be a small different. OEMs who are sleepy of their users constantly angry about army they have no control over have started to quarrel behind with updates for phones that aren’t tranquil by carriers.

HTC and LG have both announced Android 4.4 updates for their particular heavyweights, a HTC One and a LG G2, reduction than a week after Motorola forsaken a same for a Moto X. It was creatively insincere by many that Motorola had been given preference by Google, and a early entrance to 4.4 meant they could refurbish before everybody else. Shortly after a announcement, HTC and Samsung forsaken updates for their Google Play book phones.

While Samsung has nonetheless to announce 4.4 for their phones, HTC followed adult immediately with an refurbish trail for unbarred HTC One phones using HTC Sense. LG, who is not partial of a Google Play book program, followed fit immediately with a refurbish for a Korean chronicle of a LG G2.

While it is easy to assume that HTC, Motorola, and LG could have been given early entrance to a Android 4.4 source given of their away poignant relations with Google, a some-more reasonable answer would be a Google Platform Developer Kit. This is a module that Google announced dual years ago, privately for manufacturers to get updates out progressing for their hardware.

While this doesn’t assistance with a delays put in place by carriers, who away exam and plead builds before releasing them, phones that aren’t firm by those manners are already saying a updates hurl out.

Ultimately, this is a good approach for OEMs to uncover accurately where a delayed indicate in a refurbish sequence is. This empowers users to voice their complaints during a carriers instead of a manufacturers, that will eventually be good for everybody who wants updates to their Android phones in a timely manner.

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