Motorola has quietly updated its UK and Latin American support pages for the Intel-powered Motorola RAZR i smartphone to indicate that the phone will indeed be updated to Android KitKat in the future with no rollout date given.
This is in stark contrast to the manufacturer’s previous months of relative silence regarding the status of future updates for the unique low-volume device since its last major update last year, in a heavily modified (most owners would say broken) Jelly Bean 4.1 build that led to more complaints and frustration for owners.
Motorola RAZR i KitKat Confirmation as found on the UK and Latin American support pages for the phone
Now it seems that Motorola is taking a much needed step forward in developing a KitKat update for the phone when many, including our founding editor had all but written off the device, owing to Google’s directives towards Motorola and Motorola’s own direction with device development, in spite of the RAZR i still being one of the few 2012-era Moto devices still being offered for sale.
Now that the company has been sold off at a substantial loss to Lenovo, it appears that Motorola is going back and taking stock of phones that haven’t had any major updates in a year or more to see what can be done in terms of updates, dramatically improving prospects for other devices of the same vintage, but this could also mean nothing more than the completion of one update, while other nearly identical devices like the Photon Q are left to nothing more than a future plan at the moment, despite being more than capable of supporting such an update in terms of hardware.
