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LG G2 on T-Mobile now receiving Android 4.4 KitKat over-the-air
It was last week Android 4.4 KitKat became officially arrived for the T-Mobile LG G2 but with a small caveat — it was only available via LG’s desktop tool. That means for a vast majority of users (you know, the less technical ones) a good portion of LG G2 owners had no idea an update was available, or even how to apply it in the first place.
No worries, the 147MB update to software version D80120a is now available over-the-air on T-Mobile. This means that everyone else finally gets to enjoy the latest Android dessert which, aside from bringing the new features introduced in Android 4.4.2 KitKat, promises a new auto-brightness setting as well as other user experience improvements.
The update is officially ready to be pulled onto devices right now, with a prompt notifying users of the update arriving on March 6th (and available up until March 25th). For those that don’t feel like waiting, you can manually check for the update by jumping into your Settings app, selecting the “General” tab, scrolling down and selecting About Phone, followed by Update Center > System Updates > Check Now.
After that, you’ll be on your way to enjoying the lightest version of Android yet and neat new features like KitKat’s “Immersive Mode” and more. For more on KiKat, check out our announcement post here.
[T-Mobile]
Report: Apple hiring HTC engineers as they prepare to launch new iDevices in Taiwan
After facing supply constraints during the launch previous flagship — the HTC One — we were hoping the Taiwanese manufacturer would have an easier time with this year’s model. Once again, it appears HTC might just can’t catch a break, with one of the world’s biggest smartphone makers encroaching on their home turf — and they’re hiring.
According to a report from The Wall Street Journal Apple is gearing up to release more devices than ever before in Asian regions like China and Taiwan, poaching hundreds of engineers and supply chain managers from rival OEMs. This could leave HTC high-and-dry when it comes finding talent to help build upcoming flagships like the HTC M8 (One 2014).
We should point out that Apple’s hiring also affects other smaller OEMs as well, so this isn’t exclusively an HTC problem. But given HTC is an obvious source of engineering talent in Taiwan) — and the fact that Apple reportedly directly reached out to their engineers via LinkedIn — it’s easy to imagine they’d get hit pretty hard.
Seems it takes a lot more than simply coming up with a great smartphone design and cutting edge features — you gotta be able to market it, build it, and keep your people. If nothing else, this helps shed a little light on some of the hurdles smaller OEMs face when going up against manufacturing juggernauts like Samsung and Apple with near endless resources. Let’s hope everything works out in the end, we’d love to see HTC (or anyone else for that matter) put a little more heat on the big guys this year.
[via The Verge]
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