Google Christens Next Android Version As KitKat


Bangalore: Breaking its norm of opting generic name of sweets and confectionaries, Google has opted to christen its next Android as KitKat than Key Lime Pie, the name we thought until recently. The next version isn’t Android 5 but 4.4, and it is not yet clear if it’s all together a new version or an update.

Android has been developed under sweet-themed names ever since the release of Android Cupcake in 2009 and continuing in alphabetical order until the most recent version, Android Jelly Bean, and now the upcoming Android 4.4 KitKat.

Google has teamed up with Nestle and Hershey, makers of popular chocolate and wafer confectionery KitKat, and they are planning to make a number of Android-themed Kit Kat bars. They even created the website, kitkat.com/#/inthepacket, to promote the new mobile platform. What is interesting is that the deal does not involve any money.

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