With the release of the HTC One (M7) and other One branded handsets, HTC focused on quickly getting out software updates to them. The company was among the first in the United States to update their flagship handset to KitKat on all the major carriers.

Continuing that trend, HTC’s executive director of product management today announced that the Android 4.4.2 update for the One Max on Verizon has received technical approval and will start rolling out from Monday. 

HTC today released its Dot View companion app for Sense 6 via Google Play, again signaling its intentions to decentralize built-in apps and make them easier to update. The app works alongside the new Dot View case for the HTC One M8 to deliver handy information to the lock screen.

HTC One max owners on Sprint will wake up to an Android 4.4.2 KitKat update today. It weighs in at 344MB, and it brings everything you’d expect from a KitKat upgrade — including Google Cloud Print and security enhancements.

With the LG G2, the Korean company introduced a nifty double-tap to wake and sleep feature. Soon after, the company introduced Knock Code on the G Pro 2 and other devices that allows users to wake up and unlock their device by tapping in a certain pattern on the screen.

A couple of days ago, Samsung released the Android 4.4 kernel source for the T-Mobile Note 3 which indicated that the update should not be far away. Less than two days later, the ‘uncarrier’ has started rolling out the update for the latest and greatest flagship from Samsung.