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What?? The whole point of getting a Nexus device is that, unlike a carrier phone, it's not supposed to get left behind by updates!
The Galaxy Nexus came out at the end of 2011. It can only handle the latest OS for so long...
Here's the Android release notes: http://developer.android.com/about/versions/kitkat.html Highlights: * WebView is now based on Chromium * KSM and zRAM integrated into stock kernel * Public SMS framework * Printing framework * Storage access framework
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>WebView is now based on Chromium Does that mean that there will no more be stock 'Browser' app? I refuse to use Chrome on Android because of brain-dead, non-disablable 'font-boosting' that makes (among many others) Hacker News absolutely unusable. If that means that the same engine is the only one officially supported on 4.4 forwards, then that's really sad and unfortunate.
Well, there's always Firefox and a whole bunch of other browsers if you don't like Chrome.
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What?? The whole point of getting a Nexus device is that, unlike a carrier phone, it's not supposed to get left behind by updates!
The Galaxy Nexus came out at the end of 2011. It can only handle the latest OS for so long...
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That statement doesn't mention the Galaxy Nexus one way or the other. I imagine it's just a listing of the devices that Google has direct control over that they'll update in the near future. Since updates for the Galaxy Nexus have to go through the carriers, Google can't really say how soon the updates will go through, or if they ever will.
The Galaxy Nexus doesn't go through carriers unless you're on Verizon (or maybe Sprint). It was sold through Google Play (and given away at developer events like I/O) completely unlocked. Here are the images Google has supplied for this device in the past: https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#takju Leaving it out of Google's announcement feels a lot like an implicit deprecation to me.
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That statement doesn't mention the Galaxy Nexus one way or the other. I imagine it's just a listing of the devices that Google has direct control over that they'll update in the near future. Since updates for the Galaxy Nexus have to go through the carriers, Google can't really say how soon the updates will go through, or if they ever will.
The Galaxy Nexus doesn't go through carriers unless you're on Verizon (or maybe Sprint). It was sold through Google Play (and given away at developer events like I/O) completely unlocked. Here are the images Google has supplied for this device in the past: https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#takju Leaving it out of Google's announcement feels a lot like an implicit deprecation to me.
Well, I'm a little bit disappointed, I hoped to have the update too.
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The Galaxy Nexus came out at the end of 2011. It can only handle the latest OS for so long...
For less than 2 years? That's worse than Apple, and not just a little.
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> "Android 4.4, KitKat, which comes on Nexus 5, will also soon be available on Nexus 4, 7, 10, the Samsung Galaxy S4 and HTC One Google Play edition devices in the coming weeks." Hopefully they get it working for the Galaxy Nexus somehow, mine has been a crapshoot for memory recently with Chrome just randomly restarting at times.
That statement doesn't mention the Galaxy Nexus one way or the other. I imagine it's just a listing of the devices that Google has direct control over that they'll update in the near future. Since updates for the Galaxy Nexus have to go through the carriers, Google can't really say how soon the updates will go through, or if they ever will.
I had a terrible experience with the Nexus S. I bought it a couple years ago (which seems to be a vety long time in Google terms) and right now it's totally unusable. It's very slow, the battery is sucked up in less than an hour when on wifi, some apps can't work, the play store is a mess and I can go on and on. I experienced the nexus 4 a little bit and though it's a great phone I'm afraid the next OS updates are go…
...but Android is slowly becoming less open. Scares me a little. Why shouldn't it?