Anyone with 4.4.2. Seeing Improvements?

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I don't care what device you have if you have 4.4.2. you can post here. Have seen any marked improvements in:

-Camera

-Battery Life

-Performance

Or anything that has improved in your eyes. Sound off below!
 

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None that I can really sound off about. I'm thinking KitKat is more under the hood w/ some slight visual changes. I welcome the change in icons after a seeing Holo Blue for a while.

Running 4.4.2 on HTC One and Nexus 7.
 

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Depends on the device..

I am just looking at a large sample. 4.4.2. is mainly a bug squisher and performance improvements. I had wanted to see if anyone noticed any differences at all.

Posted via VZW Moto X on the Android Central App
 

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Interesting. No performance improvements at all?

Posted via VZW Moto X on the Android Central App

I personally haven't noticed any difference in performance, nope. I don't know what KitKat was meant to improve. If anything, the battery is worse when used frequently although standby time is exactly the same.

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Galaxy S4 Octa here, so far I noticed a snappier UI and more RAM available at any given time compared to 4.2.2 and 4.3.
Screen also got a touch of improvement, it looks sharper and more vivid, other than that not much else.
 

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As smooth as my Verizon G'Note3 is performing with JellyBean, it makes me wonder if its worth updating to KitKat when Verizon finally releases it...things that make you go ....Hummmm
 

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Haven't noticed a damn thing with my AT&T S4 except for standby battery time improving over 4.3 for me. I swear to you all I could unplug my phone from the charger and let it sit and it would be dead in 4 hrs...that's with no apps running or even mobile data turned on. Basically everything was turned off. Now when I go into sleep mode it kind of freezes the battery where it's at. Still drains like a storm pipe whenever I'm using it though :p

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i did notice significant improvements on my Moto G!

i'm on the runtime ART and the phone seems a bit smoother and faster than before! also i found Chrome to be a lot better on 4.4.2...when i had 4.3 it was rly laggy but now it's rly smooth!

camera improved a lot too and now it's pretty decent and i think it now follows the phone standards!

battery life has improved for me, i easily get 1day+ on moderate use!

aaand that's the most significant improvements i noticed!

maybe those with a 2Gb RAM won't rly feel any performance difference because Kitkat optimizations were more aimed to devices with low RAM! so i guess pplz with 512Mb - 1Gb RAM will feel it the most! (if any 512Mb phone gets Kitkat lol which was Google intention, that even older phones can get the most recent updates)

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On my S4, I've noticed a few speed improvements, as well as better animations. Better battery life plus I really like the holo-like notifications.

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