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welcome back to android weekly my name is Jace and today we cover things like new kit kat releases both official and unofficial and how exactly will Google reach the next billion users here comes now by far the most common and anxious question ask your android authority is something like when will the next android version be available for my particular phone well in that case we have some good news for you since last Tuesday we had official over-the-air kitkat releases for both the Nexus 7 2012 2013 and the Nexus 10 google does assures that the nexus 4 and cellular Nexus 7 will receive updates soon now for those of you left still waiting and can brave the wilds of rooting your own phone you can now find unofficial releases from rom creators AOKP cyanogenmod and omnirom for KitKat 4.4 see the links below to find if your device is eligible but of course those Nexus updates can take time and if you're really impatient you can now manually install KitKat 4.4 my good friend Adam Kuwait er provides a detailed step-by-step guide with images to do just that but now for some not so good news regarding the galaxy s3 4.3 jellybean release and samsung released this update for android 4.3 jellybean to international handset owners users that install the software notice several issues with their phones some of those problems included reduce battery life app crashes inconsistent Wi-Fi connections laggy performance and even complete lockdowns on the device on lock screens that can only be solved by pulling out and reinserting the battery so how does android reach the next billion users some people believe the Moto G is a good start so although Samsung dominates the budget handset market currently none of their affordable devices can compare to the moto g's value offer consider this chart created by our own Android authorities andra crush you can see here that with the moto g's quad-core better RAM and battery life make it a compelling offer considering the low price point move it onto Google search on android google search three-point 1.8 bring several improvements to devices running 4.1 jelly bean or later including new designs and feature this is right from google if you are a fan of a particular blog the website update card can bring you things like the latest post so you'll never miss a story and the news topic can bring you fresh articles from the web on topics you care about the what to watch card gives you movie and TV recommendations when you're staying in now you know we've got to talk about how cyanogen mod installer arrived to Google Play to grab the app you simply need to head over to Google Play keep in mind that the app is useless without the required PC Companion program which is available directly from cyanogenmod website so what does the Installer actually do basically it automates the entire sandage and mod installation process requiring very little knowledge from the end user the Installer even handles routing your handset and unlocking the bootloader all you needed is a supported device a USB cable and of course windows am at client is also in the works but isn't quite ready yet now if that news did not tickle your pickle you may like to know that there is a rumor emphasis on rumor that sentence mod is working on their own phone different from the Oppo and one that will run cyanogenmod right out of the box and is priced very attractively meaning culpable to the price of the Nexus 5 at about three hundred fifty dollars the rumor makes no mention of the hardware partner that will build the same device though the obvious candidate is Oppo though we should take this rumor with a grain of salt creating their own device isn't the next logical step for this antigen team alright guys so I read all the comments that I got the message loud and clear you would really like me to go into detail about why OEMs and device manufacturers cannot release an android update at a reasonable time we're going to go into that in depth this wednesday for android QA