According to Samsung statement Galaxy S3 will not get the android Kitkat 4.4 update because 1GB ram is not enough for running kitkat smoothly.Here's the official statement from samsung to Sammobile.
“In order to facilitate an effective upgrade on the Google platform, various hardware performances such as the memory (RAM, ROM, etc.), multi-tasking capabilities, and display must meet certain technical expectations. The Galaxy S3 and S3 mini 3G versions come equipped with 1GB RAM, which does not allow them to effectively support the platform upgrade. As a result of the Galaxy S3 and S3 mini 3G versions’ hardware limitation, they cannot effectively support the platform upgrade while continuing to provide the best consumer experience. Samsung has decided not to roll-out the KitKat upgrade to Galaxy S3 and S3 mini 3G versions, and the KitKat upgrade will be available to the Galaxy S3 LTE version as the device’s 2GB RAM is enough to support the platform upgrade.” – Samsung Mobile UK
Well that statment doesn't make sense to me because samsung has shipped several phone now with Android KitKat 4.4 running on 512MB of Ram.Android KitKat run's fine and smooth on 1GB of Ram and it's more then enough to run it smoothly.The only factor for not updating the galaxy s3 is that samsung is afraid that it would affect sales of its newer devices and people will buy the S3 instead of buying the new device's.
So here's the cheap tactics from Samsung to keep the new devices moving.This is sure going to disappoint the Galaxy S3 user's.We all know Galaxy S3 has been the most desired flagship from Samsung and i myself loved it more then the Galaxy S4 and Galaxy S5.
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But kit kat has memory efficiency. it can support 512MB
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