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BACKGROUND – Android Kitkat. Animal Day 2013? A mobile operating system of chocolate? No, not really. Kitkat Android 4.4 is the new version of Google’s operating system that will appear very soon for smartphones and tablets. 3 things we already know about Android 4.4 Kitkat.

1. Name: Kitkat

Google has made a deal with Nestle to the name of the chocolate, what you know of “Have a break, have a KitKat”, to use. The deal would be clinched within the hour, although it took almost half a year before it was official. It is probably the first time that a system is called to an existing registered trademark.

Google does quite often separate things with the names of the operating system. Previous editions were given names such as Jelly Bean, Ice Cream Sandwich and Honeycomb. We first wanted to go for the 4.4 version called “Key Lime Pie”, but came back to that later because too few people a taste of key lime pie would be recognizable. Of Kitkat, maybe we all know …

2. What it looks like

There are already tech sites that have been started or say they have been using the new Android 4.4 operating system Kitkat started. Nowadays leaks all designs and there are people who make fake designs for fun. Above a few screenshots of how Android 4.4 Kitkat probably like.

There are even pictures surfaced of the Google Nexus 5 (read: 5 things you should know about the Nexus 5), showing the new operating system. Google Nexus 5 will probably be using for its new mobile operating system, Android 4.4 (Kitkat), to present. As on previous Nexus devices will be here to experience the new version of Android in its pure form, without unnecessary third-party software.

3. New elements and attributes

The design is customized in terms of color and there are some other minor changes. In this hands-on you’ll see that there really does not change that much at first glance, and that some will be about the differences between Android Jelly Bean Android and Kitkat.

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According to this story we may better battery life for your gadget expect with the new Android Kitkat. That is of course promised with each update, but forward, we want to believe it.

But there are also added some new elements that indeed new. Thus, the possibility of direct printing from your phone are built into the system, and the menu is hidden somewhere in a section that deals with “payments”. Possible that a form of digital portemonnnee, which works through NFC technology (Wikipedia).

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