Power management
The KitKat “Power management” setting is the same as Jelly Bean, however the option to show the battery level percentage is removed. This is not surprising as Sony allows you to choose which status bar icons to include via the Personalisation menu.
Left – Android 4.3 Jelly Bean; Right – Android 4.4.2 KitKat
The STAMINA mode icon from Jelly Bean is no more. Instead, we now have a + symbol next to the battery icon to indicate that STAMINA mode is enabled.
Left – Android 4.3 Jelly Bean; Right – Android 4.4.2 KitKat
Location
Sony has renamed “Location services” to just “Location” in KitKat. The new setting allows you to see recent location requests. There is also a new location mode setting.
Left – Android 4.3 Jelly Bean; Right – Android 4.4.2 KitKat
The location mode setting allows you to choose different accuracy levels including “High accuracy”, “Battery saving” and “Device only”.
Developer Options
ART is a new Android runtime introduced experimentally in the 4.4 release. However, Sony has not included the ART runtime option within the Developer options settings.
Left – Android 4.3 Jelly Bean; Right – Android 4.4.2 KitKat
Security
In the KitKat Security setting, you can enable/disable lock screen widgets.
Left – Android 4.3 Jelly Bean; Right – Android 4.4.2 KitKat
Setup guide
Sony uses its new wallpaper as background for the KitKat Setup guide.
Left – Android 4.3 Jelly Bean; Right – Android 4.4.2 KitKat
Printing
Printing is a new KitKat feature found in the setting menu. You can use it to add your cloud printing services.
Android 4.4.2 KitKat
Accessibility
The Accessibility menu setting adds a new setting called Captions.
Left – Android 4.3 Jelly Bean; Right – Android 4.4.2 KitKat
Clicking Captions allows you to change the text size and caption style.
