Sony may have just had their Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact leak out, but that’s obviously not going to stop them from focusing on the devices that are out there in the wild, in customer’s hands. For anyone who owns the Xperia M2 or M2 Dual, you’ve got a fresh update to Android 4.4.4 KitKat rolling your way now.
Sony officially unveiled the Xperia M2 in February of this year, and the M2 Dual not too long after that. Now, several months later, both handsets are getting an official update to Android 4.4.4 KitKat, with plenty of improvements and new features in tow. As taken from Sony’s official announcement of the updates:
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Google’s Android 4.4; KitKat as standard – bringing performance & UI optimization… We’ve added our tweaked Status Bar and Quick Settings… now more intuitive and customisable (and pretty easy on the eye)… cleaned up to ensure you only get the notifications you really need.
If you’ve got a Sony PlayStation 4, you might recognize our new user interface – we’ve added the same sleek launch animation and live wallpaper across the lock and home screens. Better storage choice – you now have the option to easily move applications from internal memory to SD card – we recognised the need to have more control over your content… as something particularly useful for devices with slightly less space We’re also uplifting Sony’s entire native app portfolio to the latest versions – bringing tweaked / improved / current experiences for (to name but a few): Messaging, Smart Connect, TrackID, What’s New, and Battery STAMINA Mode, Sony’s Media apps: WALKMAN, Album and Movies. And proving pretty popular, now totalling over 2 million downloads (!) – our unique custom interface experience: “Xperia Themes”, with downloadable UI packs from Sony Select – skin up to 280 assets across your Xperia smartphone with a variety of styles… Compatibility with our SmartWear Experience; SmartBand SWR10 and Lifelog app – enabling you to record social, physical and entertainment activities and have them all visualised in a beautiful interface… reminisce at that past, make the best of the present and plan for the future. The update is not huge, but it adds plenty of new features to keep anyone who owns the devices in question happy for a little bit longer. Sony should have new devices on hand at IFA in September, though, so there could be a new device that steals your attention sooner, rather than later.
The update is rolling out now to Xperia M2 and Xperia M2 Dual handsets in the wild now, and it should land on all devices soon.
Do you own one of the devices, and have you received the update yet?
[Via Sony]
