Android 4.4 KitKat coming to Galaxy S4 and Note 3 in late January, says French carrier SFR
French carrier SFR has quite the track record of giving away tentative dates for software updates even before Samsung makes an announcement, and it is doing the same for the Android 4.4 KitKat upgrade we’re all looking forward to. Basically, SFR is reaffirming what we’ve heard before – the KitKat upgrade will start rolling out for the Galaxy S4 and Galaxy Note 3 between late January and early February.
That’s welcome news, especially considering how long Samsung took to upgrade its devices to Android 4.3, though as always, it’s a tentative time frame that might change later on. Even if the update does start rolling out in January/February, it will be a few weeks before it propagates to every region – hopefully, it’s not as bug-riddled as the 4.3 update was for the Galaxy S4 and Galaxy S III, or the happiness of a quickly released update will once again be offset by user outcry and disappointment.
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What about Turkey? You sold Note3 N9000Q in Turkey, even we didn’t want that version. Now you ignore us while upgrading to 4.4.2 kitkat. WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY?… Read more »
@Ersinbull,
You’re posting on the wrong site, this site is a “fan site” and not affiliated with samsung in ANY form.
So if you’re waiting for their answer, try contacting samsung, Your question is more likely to be read by samsung there.
Samsung,
God damn you!
You brought a second quality phone to Turkey.(Note3 N9000 iso N9005). Now, you upgrade N9005 to Android 4.4.2 Kit-kat, first. Do you think that we don’t pay any money for N9000? The price is the same, the service we get is much less.
So, god damn you!
@alfuen00 well, your being a nube, samsung relased updates for its international devices a few months to a year when a new update comes out and I know, I have been with them with all their international variants, this is the first an update reaches so fast for me, the other company you complain about is what every developer and most users is switching to, only a simple user like you hangs on to the crap samsung puts us through, and the other companies have updated most of their devices and now, that’s why samsung updates its devices this early,… Read more »
HAHAHAHA i love to read complains about how samsung never managed to update their phones, hahahah, samsung have the best updates in android ecosystem, your crying go to LG or SONY or HTC and see the cruel reality that some of their devices are still in 4.1 hahahah and no plans for updates, even some never updated, so take a breath, calm, and look for an international no carrier rom for your device and u will be ok, u need instant updates go iPhone, or go Nexus line or Google Play editions (s4, htc ONE, z ultra) a lot of… Read more »
@alfuen00 man..+1 for what u said! I still don.t get it why everyone is complaining about samsung updates. Samsung is the only android OM that updates their devices. People..just go for that tiny screen no features phone called icrap if u want to get updates! Aw wait… the ios7 update is a total fail! Bad news!… 🙂
They didn’t even release all the GS4 4.3 major issues fix to every country yet. And yet they wanted to go 4.4 this year they don’t seem to work well on the firmware release. It’s annoying!
Hey Sammobile,I’m in Varna,Bulgaria and still using Android 4.1.2 on my Samsung Galaxy S III,WHERE IS MY UPDATE? I still wait more then 1 year to update! Never again Samsun….NEVER!
They are not connected to Samsung. Sammobile is an independent site/community and has no relation to Samsung whatsoever. They have no control over updates.
I agree, samsung don’t care about the customers they only want us to buy there cell phones after that there’s is no respect for the clients.
Switch to HTC I think they old model HD2 still have support 4.3 my S3 have 4.1.2.
The greatest disadvantage of 4.4.2 is such fact, that implemented in 4.3 app’s permission control was disabled. So, having in mind, that there is no bonuses can compare with this great issue, I wouldn’t be an expectator of 4.4
lol by the time they give me 4.4.. I’ll have switched to the GS5.
time to change my s3 cause it will be the last update for it goodbye jelly bean and welcome kitkat in april 🙂