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Android 4.4 Named "KitKat"

Sep 3, 2013, 12:56 PM by Rich Brome @richbrome

Google today announced that the next major version of Android - version 4.4 - will be named KitKat, after the Kit Kat candy bar made by NestlÃ©. Each major version of Android is named for a sweet treat starting with a successive letter of the alphabet. Only major versions get a new name. So while version 4.0 was dubbed Ice Cream Sandwich, versions 4.1-4.3 all shared the name Jelly Bean. Therefore version 4.4 is expected to bring more major changes compared to versions 4.2 and 4.3. Google has not announced any details of the new release, hinting only that it will "make an amazing Android experience available for everybody". Google and NestlÃ© have teamed up on a promo for the new software. Specially-marked Kit Kat bars will come with a code good for the chance to win a Nexus 7 tablet or Google Play store credit.

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ralph.el41

Sep 3, 2013, 2:47 PM

Old andriod Versions

So the other versions are:

4.3 - 'Kit Kat'
4.1 - 'JellyBean'
4.0 - 'Ice cream Sandwich'
3.0 - 'Honeycome'
2.3 - 'Gingerbread'
2.2 - 'Froyo'
2.1 - 'Eclair'
1.6 - 'Donut'

Am I missing Any?

Pandemic187

Just Cupcake, 1.5. Technically you also missed 1.0 and 1.1, but those did not have code names.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_version_history »

Google (the search engine) is your friend.

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Rusty Shackleford

Sep 5, 2013, 9:27 AM

Major version? Why 4.4 instead of 11.0?

In the rest of the computing world a MAJOR revision change to software results in an increase of the MAJOR digit of the version number. Therefore with "K" being a 11th digit of the alphabet of the language Android's naming is following that means this version of Android OS ought to be 11.0. It sure would make life easier handling these OSes if Google followed this basic convention.

Hays21

Sep 4, 2013, 6:28 PM

Galaxy SIII

Anybody read anywhere if the Galaxy SIII will recieve an update to this new version?

pauldg

Sep 3, 2013, 1:23 PM

Too cool!

That is awesome!

acdc1a

If they were going to co-brand it, why not green Jello?

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Jellz

Gonna buy so many, new Nexus 7 here I come...

rwalford79

Sep 4, 2013, 1:44 AM
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Except KitKat Isnt Made By Nestle

... In the USA, it is made by Hershey, under license.

So... being that Nestle and Google teamed up, I can assume that the promotion will ONLY run in nations Nestle markets KitKat (worldwide EXCEPT the USA), while we get stuck with nothing since it is not a branding with Nestle AND Hershey...

Jonathanlc2005

Sep 3, 2013, 4:05 PM

GIVE ME A BREAK!

Key Lime Pie was a better name!

so if we are naming candy... next would be lemonheads or life savers

tbacba

Ah, I see what you did there! 😁

middlekid3058

Sep 3, 2013, 7:17 PM

Is it really April 1st already?

What in the wide world ?

Jonathanlc2005

Sep 3, 2013, 4:11 PM
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Nestle and Hershey

Google today announced that the next major version of Android - version 4.4 - will be named KitKat, after the Kit Kat candy bar made by NestlÃ©

but the link is http://www.hersheys.com/kitkat.aspx

Fredd

Kit Kat is a chocolate-covered wafer biscuit bar confection that was created by Rowntree's of York, England, and is now produced worldwide by NestlÃ©, which acquired Rowntree in 1988, except in the United States where it is made under license by The...
(continues)

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Pandemic187

Sep 3, 2013, 2:47 PM

I'm really glad that...

Android versions also have numbers, so that I can simply call it 4.4. I understand that businesses exist to make money, but I ain't calling this thing Kit Kat until someone starts paying me to do so (read: never, hence my being glad).

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