Update BLU Android 4.4 (KitKat)

June 29, 2014, by Santiago

BLU has just officially announced which brand phones will receive an update to Kit Kat, through a statement on its official Facebook page.

According to the company, “the first” phones to receive the precious update to Android 4.4 KitKat will be the following: Life Play, Life 8, Dash 5.5, Dash 5.0, Vivo IV, Neo 4.5, Studio 6.0 HD and Studio 5.5.

This is Blu’s official statement, posted on your facebook page, together with the image of all the indicated devices:

Dear BLU Fans, here are the models confirmed that will support Kit Kat upgrade. We’re putting the final touches on testing and will begin releasing these in the coming days, one at a time. If your device is not supported at this time, we will do our best to do so in the future. We hope this clears the air on questions as to which devices will be supported with Kit Kat upgrades. Please remember BLU is always working hard to make our customers happy and constantly improving, unfortunately sometimes things take time. Thanks for your patience. #KitKat

Basically it is indicating that these are the BLU models that will be updated to Android Kit Kat in the coming days: “one mobile at a time.” If your phone is not on this list, BLU will do its best to have it updated in the future. This clarifies the doubts about which BLU equipment supports the Android Kit Kat update, it is indicated.

Note that here we talk about Kit Kat Android 4.4. Currently the latest version of Android available and stable is Android 4.4.4 (Android L is still in the testing phase).

It is interesting to know that there will be Android Kit Kat for BLU models that were not expected, such as the Neo 4.5 or Life Play. The company does not usually integrate the latest version of Android in the phones that it has just put on the market, such as the Vivo IV, so this update is more than welcome, even if it is the first version of Kit Kat.

Upgrade: Apparently BLU company provides email support when it comes to software issue. This is what is posted on his Facebook fanpage:

The latest software update for the BLU Studio 5.0 is now available for download. Please contact service@bluproducts.com in order to receive the instructions on how to download this update. The update corrects bugs on apps such as: Netflix, Skype, among other patches to make the phone work better and faster. This is not an upgrade for Android. This is just a software update for the current Android 4.1.2 software.

It talks exclusively about the BLU Studio 5.0, but probably this support can apply to any Blu phone model, an opportunity that can be taken to cite some of the drawbacks that the KitKat update cited here, which has been disclosed by our readers in the comments.

Update 2: We are told that BLU technical support would have said that Android KitKat is being tested on the BLU Studio 6.0 HD (AMONG OTHERS), which may explain some bugs of various models cited in the comments. He would also have said that the only solution to remove KitKat from a phone is to send the device to BLU (roundtrip shipping at their expense) to take care of reinstalling Android 4.2 or the original version that the phone had before to update. This process can take time as the phone has to be ‘valued’. Thanks Héctor Jiménez!

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