There is good news for Moto G owners today. Motorola announced that, following “visions of KitKats dancing in our heads,” it was starting to roll out Android 4.4.2 KitKat to its entry-level Moto G smartphone today. It had originally expected to begin this rollout in early January but things came together faster than it expected:
Our KitKat family is expanding! When we launched Moto G last month, we committed to delivering Android, KitKat, to devices by early 2014. We are thrilled to start delivering on that promise early. Starting today, we are rolling out Android 4.4.2 to Moto G phones bought on Motorola.com or Amazon.com in the U.S. KitKat will come to other Moto G carriers and regions soon as well. This latest version of Android brings some cool new features, including printing emails and photos from your phone.
As for what’s included in the Moto G Android 4.4.2 update, here is Motorola’s list:
- Android 4.4 KitKat: Android 4.4.2, KitKat is the latest release of the Android platform. KitKat includes enhancements such as restyled status and navigation bars, a new full-screen mode, color emoji support, improved closed captioning support, stronger security, smarter power use, and more tools and capabilities for better app development.
- Phone dialer: Improved the phone app with the ability to look up contacts directly from the dial pad, see and tap frequent contacts, and search your corporate directory easily.
- Camera Focus and exposure: Enhanced the “touch to focus” option with a new circular, on screen control that can be dragged by your finger around the viewfinder to adjust a photo’s focus and exposure.
- Gallery: Photo editing Added new photo editing options to the Gallery app including new filter effects, draw on your photos, advanced cropping, and adjustments to color, exposure, contrast and more.
- Printing documents and pictures: Added support for printing photos, Google Docs, GMail messages, and other content via Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and hosted services like Google Cloud Print and HP ePrinters.
- Hangouts – SMS/MMS support: Incorporated a new version of Google Hangouts that supports integrated SMS/MMS messaging. Hangouts can be set as the default SMS app under Settings > Wireless > Default SMS app.
- Accessory support: Added support for Square credit card reader.
The rollout is starting in the U.S. with Moto G smartphones purchased from Motorola.com and Amazon but it should soon be headed to other regions (including Canada) very soon. Rest assured that we’ll let you know as soon as it hits Canadian smartphones!
Nicely done, Motorola, nicely done!
Source : Motorola Mobility