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It also appears that the Galaxy Note 3 and Galaxy Note 3 LTE will be getting Android 4.4.4 KitKat and that those updates will be deployed in October as well. We’ve also seen the Galaxy Note 3 Android 4.4.4 KitKat update strike the United States and we’ve seen unnamed Galaxy Note 3 updates pop up in recent days, something that could point to an Android 4.4.4 release.
This chart also lists several pending Android 4.4.4 KitKat updates including those for the Galaxy Note 2, Galaxy Note 2 LTE, Galaxy Grand 2, Galaxy Grand 2 Duos, Galaxy S4 mini, and Galaxy S4 mini Duos. All of those updates are targeted for November as well so it appears that Samsung is trying to get Android 4.4.4 KitKat out to as many devices as it can this year, ahead of Android L.
I’ve had 3 Samsung smartphones but I’m done. When my contract is up I am switching my S4 to an Apple iphone. Kit Kat 4.4.2 Destroyed my ability to use it with my home WiFi. Second time that has happened because an earlier version would not play nice with my D Links router and it took them what felt like forever to fix that. All the bells and whistles are USELESS they can’t get the ability to use WiFi correct.
I am also done with samsung. They are too slow to fix bugs in their os. Kitkat 4.4.2 was full of bugs and pushed to devises without fix for the last 6 months. I can hardly use my ph as battery drains so fast. It reboots itself frequently. Its slow and lags badly. Email take long to open and download. Blue tooth is moody and has to be manually connected. These issues were not present in old jellybeen os. They just screwed up a good devise and os.
Funny, mine never did this or the other persons comment.
I have a note 3 LTE and haven’t received yet the update referred in this article.
I write on Samsung galaxy tab pro. i use dev mode hidden usuale from kk OS. my time with 4.4.2 will not upgrade before unlock dev mode, or after unlock dev mode. is a crazy that tab pro model way after android 4.4.2 is supposed to be upgrade with kk 4.4.4 (kk = kit-kat). i would pay way more than $2 American for kit-kat, but why it not match pro tablet new spec?
I hav Samsung Galaxy s4 which is currently running 4.4.2 When wil i get the official 4.4.4. Update over the air?
Tata I totally agreed with you. I brought a brand new s4 the latest model and as the moment I received the phone I began experiencing call drop and other bugs. I have being a owner of s2, note 2 n recently a s4 they all are good phones but the os horrible. I am sure that my next phone will definitely be an nexus. I am desperate for a new os to fix d calling issues I have being experiencing and I don’t want to root the phone to update it, so if any of you guys know when the os update coming out for s4 i9505-gt?
Anyone updated already? Suggestions? Update of keep the old?
Kitkat firmware for Galaxy grand duos??
iv got the Samsung Galaxy Mega SGH-1527 with the 6.3 screen, when the bad update of kit Kat 4.4.2 came out in August of 2014 a memo newsletter came out that google an Samsung were aware of the malfunctioning devices from the 4.4.2 update. i now have a warranty phone which is the same Samsung Mega SGH-1527, AT&T which is my phone provider and there’s not a single Samsung galaxy phone updated from 5.0 lollipop nor 4.4.4 kit Kat version. im disabled an i truly need to know if Google or Samsung is planning soon to fix this horrible 4.4.2 kitkat update on especially my phone the Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3 screen version SGH-1527 for AT&T. THIS IS A CRY FOR HELP!!!..
Fans are wondering whether or not they are still doing their holiday tradition.
Earlier this month Kim Kardashian broke the news that she and her “dramatic” famous family’s annual Christmas card would not be happening this year. Not too long after, the beauty mogul and her sisters teased a secret photoshoot on Instagram, after receiving tons of disappointed remarks from fans on social media. Scroll through to get all the details.
Ok I have al of my sisters and my mom on set! I’m trying to surprise them with a Christmas Card shoot but just thought of this idea and Kanye is out of town! 😭 What do I do????
Last week Kim took to Twitter to ask her fans whether or not she should rally in her sisters for a quick photoshoot after getting all the disappointed feedback. "Ok I have all of my sisters and my mom on set! I’m trying to surprise them with a Christmas Card shoot. What do I do????" she tweeted.
Shortly after Kim went to her Instagram Story. "I’m here with all my sisters and my mom. Do you think I should pop up on them with a photographer and shoot our family Christmas card?” the KKW Beauty founder asked her followers.
While we're still not sure if this secret Christmas card will surfacing anytime soon, Kim and her sisters have been posting photos in sparkly ensembles ever since she asked fans whether or not they should go through with the tradition. Kylie Jenner shared a photo of herself on Instagram wearing a fitted, sparkly, sheer gown while rocking a dark smokey eye.
On the same day, Khloe Kardashian posted a handful of photos of herself in a black and silver sequin covered bra that seemingly goes along with the sparkly theme.
Yesterday, Kim posted this photo of herself in an unfinished plunging sheer, sparkling gown. "Fittings," she wrote underneath the Instagram post.
Photos of Kendall Jenner, Kourtney Kardashian, and Momager Kris Jenner have not yet been revealed, although we're sure they will be included in the Christmas card in some shape or form. Then again with all the drama of last year's photoshoot, when Kim told Kourtney that she is "the least interesting to look at" after being difficult with scheduling, who knows if Kris' oldest will be in the photo!
Are you excited to see if the Kardashian-Jenner family ends up revealing a 2018 Christmas card? Let us know in the comments!
Last Wednesday I met with Microsoft's Andy Lees, President of the Windows Phone Division, to talk about the company's new smartphones. During our meeting, though, my eyes kept flickering over to the television set running Xbox 360 across the room. It was sporting the new media dashboard that's rolling out in November. And the Mango-powered smartphone in my hand was the perfect remote.
It's not only because Microsoft had just scored a big deal to bring a whole slew of TV content to Xbox, and I'm a remarkably typical television-loving American. I love smartphones, too; I covered the Windows Phone 7 launch event for Wired almost exactly a year ago. But I've always been more interested in how smartphones (including WinPhone7) pull together devices and services. I've also long been fascinated by how Xbox has helped reboot our assumptions for media interfaces in the living room. I've been closely tracking Windows 8's increasingly form-factor agnostic approach to desktop computing. But between the Xbox and the Windows Phone, here were two very different kinds of "personal computers." Both are inherently capable, and even more compelling used together — and there wasn't a traditional Windows machine in sight.
For example, there's a new Windows Phone app for Mango called "Xbox Companion." Now, there are already plenty of smartphone remote applications. But Microsoft's version does two smart things: It doesn't just change the channel on the Xbox, but can pull and identify content from it, context-dependent based on what you're already watching.
Here's a scenario Microsoft's Derek Snyder demonstrated. You're watching an animated film on the Xbox. You can almost-but-not-quite recognize one of the voices. So you pull out your phone to look it up. So far, this is pretty typical of how most people use their smartphones or tablets while watching video. Instead of looking it up on Google or imdb.com, you open up the companion app.
There you find a button for "what's happening now." This automatically pulls up a card with all the top-line information about the movie you're watching on the Xbox, including cast. Each of these entries are in turn hot-linked to a Bing search that finds all related content that can be played on the Xbox — mostly movies, music or television shows. Once you find something here, you can select it to begin playing on screen immediately.
What's more, it doesn't just do this over Wi-Fi, if the Xbox and WinPhone are on the same local network. It can do it completely through the cloud, using the common Windows Live ID on both devices. If the Xbox had 3G/4G cellular data like the Windows Phone does, you wouldn't even need a local router. "It just knows the Xbox and the Xbox knows it," Snyder said.
This phrase caught my attention. Let me explain why I think it's important.
This is why identity services, whether through Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon, Twitter or anyone else, are increasingly key to personal computing. All of the devices are networked communicators (so they need access to services like Skype or FaceTime or Google Talk, as well as your social graph), all of the devices are storefronts for apps, games and media (so they need access to your billing information), and all of them are personalized for each user and synchronized for each account, so they can port media and messaging and even simple information like a channel flip from one device to another.
From an input perspective, that distributed recognition on the network means everything on it hooks together, in a way that's arguably more seamless even than on or between Apple devices. There's no separate look-up or entry from machine to machine, and within each machine, no need to copy and paste from app to app.
The point, however, is to make copy-and-paste move from impossible (remember how few smartphones could implement it with any facility just five years ago?) to unnecessary. Once you pair a smartphone and all of its sensors with a sophisticated game console like the Xbox with Kinect and all of its sensors, you have a staggering range of input possibilities: game controllers and traditional remotes, virtualized versions of both on the smartphone, both voice and gestures, whether on the smartphone and Kinect.
When you design the experience for those kinds of input, it quickly becomes impossible to assume file-and-folder-style nested hierarchies. Instead, you open up all sorts of other possibilities to push and pull information from one point to another. You open up touch, voice, gesture, and automated and artificial intelligence of all kinds. And the smartphone becomes a natural focal point for that, because its sensors and communication capabilities are already inherently so rich.
But there's also a bit of sorcery there. It just knows the Xbox and the Xbox knows it. "It knows" without my intervention, except as a first mover and witness. My Live ID — just an electronic impression in the data center — is enough to link the two directly. From a mile-high view, every device on the network is equally an agent/participant, including the user.
"Three screens and a cloud" was Ray Ozzie's mantra when he was chief software architect at Microsoft. The idea is that desktop, mobile, and entertainment/living room experiences each require their own form factors, tied together by backend services that pull those devices together — and furthermore, that all of them in unison serve the function formerly known as "personal computing."
Ozzie's vision is becoming realized, and not only at Microsoft. Whether you're talking about Apple's new iCloud, Google's push to bring thin-client operating systems to everything from enterprise notebooks to TV sets, or even Amazon's cloud-backed Kindle Fire tablet, you see the same logic at work.
The differences between companies like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Apple and others can be found mostly in their experimentation with exactly how many screens are viable, and where those devices fit — in your house or office, on or around your body, or in the interstices of your day. Is an iPad-sized tablet a laptop-like computer, a mobile device, a living room machine, or a bit of all three? Where do e-readers and mobile gaming/music devices fit in? Are there still meaningful differences between portable laptops and stationary desktops, even if they run the same OS? How much ought office and enterprise hardware and software resemble the consumer experience, and in which direction(s) should innovation flow? How much computing power (rather than simple sync and storage) do you push from a local machine into the centralized backend? When even RIM's vaunted central services crash, and a demand spike makes Apple's new cloud-based backups and updates fail, how much ought users trust their cloud services for reliability, security or privacy?
But Microsoft, as you might expect, probably exemplifies the "three screens and a cloud" philosophy most ideally. Between the consumer and enterprise markets, it probably has the most robust cloud service, and between Windows 7/8, Windows Phone 7/7.5, and Xbox 360, it has three major screens and operating systems to run on them. All three increasingly borrow UI elements from each other and share backend and development resources, but they also pair and partner well.
I think this is crucial to understanding the metastasis both of the cloud metaphor and the idea of the personal computer as the "digital hub." There is no hub any more, no defined center of activity. Or if there is a center, it's no longer a workstation packed with ports, cables, a big processor and a bigger hard drive.
It's you. Plus the data center — which carries your electronic impression. And every interface in between.
Already, according to Nielsen, 40 percent of smartphone and tablet owners are pairing them with a television. Over time, that ad hoc multi-screen network will become a formal one; Microsoft's is just one of several visions for how that formalization will work.
For instance, this is one reason many of usare particularly excited about the possibilities of Apple's new Siri virtual assistant. It already combines natural input, smart cloud processing, and non-hierarchical, non-app-dependent push and pull of information. It doesn't matter whether the AI moves either beyond the iPhone to work natively on Apple's entire product line, or goes through it, like Microsoft's Windows Phones or the iPhone and iPad remote control applications today, as a secondary input device. Either way, it opens up not just one node in the new personal computing network, but several.
The trick is that because of the cloud, designing for individual form factors — one or more of Microsoft's "three screens" — is both more and less important than ever before. It's more important because it helps determine the interface and targets both our behavior and our time. You could say it's less important than ever before, because all of the devices are more capable, and more of the storage and computing action happens off site.
But, once the devices start communicating effortlessly to each other, then it becomes something else, neither more nor less important, but transformative. Instead of designing for specific devices, you have to design for device networks. Increasingly, the design won't just enable communication between post-PC devices, but will assume it.
The precise nature of those assumptions still need to be worked out. Some of these networks may be partial — not everyone will have every kind of device. Others may be heterogeneous. Right now, most of the synchronicity is between all-Microsoft, all-Apple or all-Google setups. History suggests that if the big companies don't find ways to get their devices talking to each other, users will.
But remember, the first GUI personal computers from Xerox, Apple and Microsoft required redesigning computing for that first "network" of computer, monitor, keyboard, mouse and printer. Those assumptions weren't automatic either. And in fact they're evolving still. We're still finding ways to push the definition of personal computing a little farther forward.
Note: From the Daily Grill. The restaurant suggests using Louisiana-style pepper sauce.
Step 1In a large heavy-bottom stock pot, add the oil and heat over medium-high heat. Add the shallots, onions, leeks, thyme and bay leaves and saute for 8 to 10 minutes, or until the onions are softened.
Step 2Increase the heat to high and add the clams. Then reduce the heat to medium and cook for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Step 3Add the black pepper, celery salt, clam juice, tomato paste and tomatoes. Increase the heat to high and bring the soup to a boil, then reduce the heat to a simmer and cook an additional 15 minutes.
Step 4Add the diced potatoes and simmer 10 minutes, or until tender. Season to taste with kosher salt and hot sauce. Serve immediately.
186 calories; 13 grams protein; 23 grams carbohydrates; 4 grams fiber; 5 grams fat; 1 gram saturated fat; 31 mg. cholesterol; 769 mg. sodium.
Dear SOS: My husband thought the Manhattan red clam chowder at the Daily Grill in San Francisco (at the Handlery Hotel) was absolutely the best he's eaten since he left Rhode Island. Would you be able to get the recipe? Thanks.
Dear Elsie (and Wally): Sometimes there's nothing better than a big bowl of good, hot soup. The Daily Grill's Manhattan clam chowder is vibrant from the tomatoes, with just enough spice to warm you. It's got plenty of plump little clams and is easy to make too.
Apple will start taking preorders for the iPhone X Oct. 27 before shipping the smartphone phone to buyers and distributors Nov. 3. Apple will be watching closely to see if the iPhone X ignites sales of its smartphones after early sales of the newly released iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus failed to match previous models. However, ordering the iPhone X means consumers around the world are prepared to pay for the most expensive iPhone Apple has ever offered. Before making the decision to order the iPhone X, consumers should consider the total cost of owning an iPhone X, potential operational glitches and some of the alternatives on the market. This slide show give users a full rundown of some factors to consider before spending more than $1,000 on an iPhone X.
Apple’s iPhone X is a major upgrade that includes features not available in any previous smartphone. However, those features might not work as well as expected, at least at first. In fact, several reports said Apple had troubles with front-facing camera production and the iPhone X’s screen. Being an early adopter could be rewarding—or a big pain.
According to several reports, Apple had problems getting the desired number of units into its channel and will have only 2 million to 3 million iPhone Xs available at launch. That could be a problem for those wanting the device on the first day. With low supply, some buyers may need to scramble to find available product. It will be interesting to see how preorders and deliveries work.
It’s also worth noting that time is of the essence with the iPhone X. According to most market reports, demand for the handset is strong and there’s a good chance that reported supply problems will make it difficult to buy an iPhone X on day one, so people will rush to line up in Apple Stores and carriers.
Apple’s iPhone X has several important new features, including a Face ID facial scanner for enhanced security and wireless charging. Its revamped, bezel-free design means there’s no physical home button. The screen is the largest ever for an iPhone, at 5.8 inches, and the first from Apple to use OLED technology.
The iPhone X is by no means an inexpensive device. The 64GB version is priced at $999, making it the most expensive handset Apple has ever offered. Buyers who want a model with 256GB of onboard storage will pay $1,149.
Like its predecessors, the iPhone X is a carrier-agnostic smartphone that will be available to Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile network customers. Customers can also buy the iPhone X unlocked from Apple and move the smartphone from carrier to carrier without any delay. All of Apple’s carrier partners will sell the iPhone X starting on launch day.
Apple’s retail partners also will carry the iPhone X. Chief among them are Best Buy, Walmart and Target, which will have Apple’s handset starting on launch day. Pricing will be the same at Apple’s third-party retail outlets as it is elsewhere.
The iPhone X will be available for pre-order at the Apple Store, Apple.com, carrier stores and third-party retailers starting at 3:01 a.m. EDT or 12:01 a.m. PDT starting Friday, Oct. 27. Customers also can preorder the iPhone X through Apple’s Apple Store mobile app.
All Apple retail stores, its online store, carrier outlets and third-party retailer stores will carry the iPhone X on launch day Nov. 3. But because of the short supply and high demand, there’s a good chance that those who didn’t preorder will experience long lines at retail outlets and delays to get an iPhone X.
Apple’s iPhone X is expensive, and its accessories and other equipment will make it even more costly. Few docks built for previous iPhones will fit the iPhone X, and since the screen covers the handset's entire face, the smartphone should have a protective case. Apple included the Lightning connector in the iPhone X, which is good for accessories equipped with that feature, but the smartphone’s revamped design will render some third-party devices obsolete.
Aneesha Baig cruises the streets of Mumbai and leads us straight to a high calorie heaven. Cupcakes, macaroons, ice creams, chocolate falooda, tarts, panna cotta with pan chutney. Oh, you are going to love this.
The orphan of an Australian Islamic State terrorist has described her harrowing journey from the clutches of IS to a Syrian refugee camp, where she is currently stranded with her heavily pregnant and injured sister and little brother.
Hoda Sharrouf, 16, is the youngest daughter of Australians Khaled Sharrouf and of Tara Nettleton, who took their five children to Syria in 2014 to join her terrorist husband. Both parents have since died.
Hoda, who is an Australian citizen, was only 11 at the time.
Now a teenager, Hoda and her brother Humzeh, sister Zaynab and her children were caught up in the final battle for Islamic State's last stronghold — the town of Baghouz in eastern Syria — which fell to Kurdish forces last month.
Hoda said Kurdish forces surrounding Baghouz were shooting at everyone during the offensive to re-take the town.
"They used to sit up there with sniper guns and stuff and they'd shoot everyone they'd see, even women and children," Hoda told the ABC's Four Corners.
"They did a ceasefire they told women to leave, and I said I'm leaving I don't want to stay here anymore, so I left.
"I left, it was hard but I made it."
Hoda has suspected nerve damage from wounds on her foot and ankle, which made the trip out of the town gruelling.
"It was just really hard, we had to walk up the mountain and it's steep," she said.
"Me with my foot, you know it's injured, you know the nerve doesn't work.
"I had to get, like, two people to help me as I kept falling on the ground.
"I was holding one small backpack on my back as well and I was about to chuck that but I had nothing."
Hoda and her siblings fled the regime and were taken to the al-Hawl refugee camp in the country's north-east, where thousands of wives and children of former IS fighters languish.
Conditions in the camp are squalid, disease is rife and medical care is poor and hard to access.
Hoda is desperate to escape the camp, where she does not feel safe.
"Once I leave here I never want to come back here ever again," Hoda said.
She hopes to return to Australia with her grandmother and siblings.
"I hope I can just spend as much time with my family as I can," she said.
There are fears for Hoda's sister Zaynab, who was married off when she was 13 years old to their father's friend Mohammed Elomar.
The eldest of the three surviving Sharrouf children, Zaynab —now 17 — is eight months pregnant with her third child.
Her Sydney-based grandmother, Karen Nettleton, has flown to Syria in a desperate attempt to secure the release of Zaynab, Hoda, and their brother Humzeh, 8, and Zaynab's two toddlers, Aiysha, 3, and Fatima, 2.
Ms Nettleton told the ABC that Zaynab is severely malnourished, has shrapnel in her chest and in the past 24 hours has been bleeding heavily and is unable to stand.
She was treated by a medical team at the camp on Thursday night, but there are concerns that Zaynab's life will be at risk if she remains there.
"She's malnourished, she's having stomach pains; she has constant diarrhoea," Ms Nettleton told Four Corners.
"I am so worried about that child, she really needs to be in hospital to be really checked out, she's like a skeleton."
The Australian Government is aware of the surviving children's plight, but says they are unable to help until the orphans leave Syria.
More than 100 children have died on the way to the camps or since arriving, mainly because of severe malnourishment, pneumonia and dehydration, according to humanitarian group the International Rescue Committee.
Zaynab's case has parallels with that of British teenager Shamima Begum, whose three-week-old baby died at one of the camps in March.
The British Government had refused to assist Ms Begum or her child and there was a public outcry in the UK after the death.
Ms Nettleton, Tara's mother, has spent five years trying to rescue her grandchildren from the toxic ideology of IS, after her daughter took the children to Turkey and then into Syria.
"They didn't know they were coming here, they all thought they were going to Turkey," Ms Nettleton told Four Corners.
"They crossed the border into Syria and it wasn't until some time later that Tara said to them they were in Syria.
External Link: Baghouz, where IS made its last stand in Syria, and the al-Hawl refugee camp to the north.

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