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What's new in Android 4.3

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Re: What's new in Android 4.3

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Post by Achshar »

mey wrote: post #63
danso wrote: post #48

Not to start a flame war here...but what is the likelihood that newer devices still on 4.1 will be bumped to 4.3, on the reasoning that third-parties waited until 4.3 to make the upgrade? Or does it become increasingly unlikely that any upgrade will happen? I have a Sprint HTC One...which was released in 4.2's latter days but still had 4.1...wondering if an upgrade will ever happen

Consider it unlikely. I have a flagship Verizon device stuck on 4.1.1, this is true of my previous Android device. The carriers seem to want a model where you replace your device regularly to get the newer software....

Lol, Funny how we have very different standards for stuck. I would not consider 4.1.1 "stuck" any time soon. I have gingerbread on 800mhz, 420x840. I would LOVE to be "stuck" on 4.1.1. Google chrome and Google Now seem like such neat things.

Re: What's new in Android 4.3

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Post by srathi »

SEMW wrote: post #45
ville wrote: post #24

Is Google lacking imagination? This is the third version with the same name. I'm missing the times when every release was a new sweet thing.

> I'm missing the times when every release was a new sweet thing. There's never been a time when all point releases had a new codename. Eclair covered 2.0 and 2.1. Honeycomb covered 3.0, 3.1, and 3.2. I don't see any evidence they've changed their naming practices.

4.0 to 4.1 was a jump from ICS to JB, but that was an exception.

Re: What's new in Android 4.3

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Post by notatoad »

>You can access notifications through new APIs that let you register a notification listener service and with permission of the user, receive notifications as they are displayed in the status bar...You'll be able to launch any intents attached to the notification or its actions, as well as dismiss it from the system, allowing your app to provide a complete user interface to notifications.

wow. that should have some interesting possibilities.

Re: What's new in Android 4.3

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Post by nileshtrivedi »

aray wrote: post #66
nileshtrivedi wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

'fastboot oem unlock' will still work on Nexus devices, right?

Yes. And not only will it continue to work, it should (hopefully) be the only way of getting a custom image. http://source.android.com/source/building-devices.html#unloc... IMO promoting 'security holes' as a mechanism of freeing your device is counter-intuitive. What everyone needs is a safe way of running their own software; security bugs are toxic to the entire ecosystem.

I agree. Just that the parent's point that "Google (and vendors) certainly wouldn't like users to have unrestricted access to their phones" doesn't make sense in light of this fact.

Re: What's new in Android 4.3

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Post by Goosey »

> Wi-Fi scan-only mode is a new platform optimization that lets users keep Wi-Fi scan on without connecting to a Wi-Fi network, to improve location accuracy while conserving battery.

Out of all the features this is the one I am most excited about.

Re: What's new in Android 4.3

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Post by darxius »

I'm new to the Android world and this is the first update I've seen. When should I expect an update pushed to my phone? What does it depend on? I have the Galaxy S4 so I assume Samsung has to make some modifications to the version to support some stuff?

Re: What's new in Android 4.3

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Post by mtgx »

danso wrote: post #48

Not to start a flame war here...but what is the likelihood that newer devices still on 4.1 will be bumped to 4.3, on the reasoning that third-parties waited until 4.3 to make the upgrade? Or does it become increasingly unlikely that any upgrade will happen? I have a Sprint HTC One...which was released in 4.2's latter days but still had 4.1...wondering if an upgrade will ever happen

You'll get 4.3, and even at least one more for HTC One.

The ones that receive very poor to no further support are the low-end devices, or the not very popular ones, which is also very unfortunate.

That's why I think that if Google announced Motorola will support its own devices for 3 years, just like Apple and Canonical also promised for Ubuntu Edge, they would have a huge competitive advantage over other OEM's (which are free to copy them on this).

Re: What's new in Android 4.3

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Post by jdboyd »

dangrossman wrote: post #54
untog wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thing is, Amazon Instant is already on Google TV. So I don't think there is any technical reason for them to not implement it.

Amazon Instant on Google TV is just a shortcut to launching Chrome pointed at the Amazon site where the videos play in Flash. It's not a real Android app, not on my box at least.

Amazon Instant on some Google TV devices is the real Amazon Instant app. However, the devices supported by Amazon Instant are all ones that offered DRM.

Re: What's new in Android 4.3

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Post by mkeener »

srathi wrote: post #72
SEMW wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I'm missing the times when every release was a new sweet thing. There's never been a time when all point releases had a new codename. Eclair covered 2.0 and 2.1. Honeycomb covered 3.0, 3.1, and 3.2. I don't see any evidence they've changed their naming practices.

4.0 to 4.1 was a jump from ICS to JB, but that was an exception.

Except for 2.1 -> 2.2 (Froyo) -> 2.3 (Gingerbread). So, not very exceptional.

Re: What's new in Android 4.3

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Post by randallu »

notatoad wrote: post #73

>You can access notifications through new APIs that let you register a notification listener service and with permission of the user, receive notifications as they are displayed in the status bar...You'll be able to launch any intents attached to the notification or its actions, as well as dismiss it from the system, allowing your app to provide a complete user interface to notifications. wow. that should have some i…

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