Has your smartphone’s battery life been draining unusually fast since you updated to Android 4.4.2 KitKat? It’s likely its camera is at fault. A nasty bug introduced in Google’s latest Android update can cause the camera app to continue running in the background after you’ve closed it, maxing out your handset’s CPU and eating up power.
Today, Google published the latest distribution figures of the Android operating system. The numbers reveal a consistent growth in the amount of Android users running Jelly Bean, whilst older versions of the OS continue on their path towards extinction. As expected, these latest results show a significant increase in the amount of users running the most recent software version, 4.4 KitKat.
Google appears to be preparing a big Google Play promotion to celebrate the store’s second anniversary. Users in Australia report that books, games, magazines, and movies have been reduced to as little as AU$0.99 — while others like FIFA 14 have gone completely free.
A seller on eBay is now offering an excellent bargain on one of the best 10 inch Android tablets from 2012 – the Samsung made Nexus 10. Although it didn’t sell as much as Google wanted, it is still highly regarded in the developer community as one of the best tablets running Vanilla Android. This tablet can now be yours for as little as $330 through the online retailer along with free shipping as an added bonus.
With the release of Android 4.4 KitKat, the Paranoid Android team decided to go back to the drawing board and make all their primary features much more elegant looking and simpler to use. While this move is for the overall benefit of their users, the downside is that adding all its previous features has been taking its own sweet time.
Today, the team has released PA 4.1 that brings back one of the major features of their ROM — Pie.
