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Android 4.4 KitKat (Sept 2013)
Android 4.4 KitKat was officially launched in Sept 2013. Google contacted
Nestle, the creators of KitKat bar and asked them if they could use this
name for Android 4.4. Nestle agreed and they co-branded with Google. This
was the first time when the name of Android 4.4 is taken from a previously
trademarked name. KitKat didn’t have many new feature but it did have one
great thing that helped a lot to expand the overall Android market i.e. it was
optimized to run on smartphones that had as little as 512 MB of RAM. This
leads to phone makers installing this version of Android OS on much
cheaper handsets. Google Nexus 5 Smartphone was the first one to be
launched with Android 4.4. Although the KitKat was launched about 5 years
ago but still there are many devices which are using it now also. As per
Google, about 15 percent of all the Android devices that are being used, are
running on Android KitKat.