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Android version 4.1-4.2, codenamed Jelly Bean, is the current version of Google's mobile OS. Jelly Bean puts a renewed focus on UI speed and responsiveness, while further enhancing the UI introduced in Android 4.0. There's a completely redesigned notification API, allowing notifications to be expanded to include widget-like functionality. A re-vamped Google search interface includes the ability to pose questions directly and have them answered in voice. And a new Camera app allows shots to be easily reviewed and deleted. In addition, the new Google Now predictive search service puts data like location and search history to work to provide relevant real-time information.

Jelly Bean (Android 4.1) made its debut on the Nexus 7 tablet at Google I/O in June 2012. This was followed by a maintenance upgrade to Android 4.2 Jelly Bean later in the year, coinciding with the Nexus 4 and Nexus 10 launch. Android 4.2 featured new lock screen widgets, more improvements to the stock Android camera app, gesture-based typing and new quick settings shortcuts accessible via the notification bar.

Keep watching Android Central's coverage for all the latest news on Jelly Bean upgrades for existing devices.

Sony Xperia J
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by Casey Rendon
Mar 11, 2013
Good news for Sony Xperia J owners - the official rollout of Jelly Bean has begun. This will bump the Android OS up to version 4.1, bringing with it new features from Jelly Bean like Quick...
Sprint Galaxy Tab 2 10.1
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by Sean Brunett
Mar 11, 2013
Sprint has begun the rollout of Android 4.1.1 (Jelly Bean) to its version of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1. Enhancements will include: Google Now Smooth transitions enable effortless m...
4XHD Jelly Bean
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 08, 2013
The Optimus 4X HD was a really well built device with great 2012 specifications released in the middle of last year. But it had some severe software problems, and was locked down so t...
Sprint Optimus G
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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 07, 2013
LG Optimus G users on Sprint have something to cheer about today, as the Jelly Bean OTA update has just started its rollout. As newer versions of the Optimus G have started to come out of the box wi...
Droid RAZR
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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 07, 2013
We had some pretty interesting information regarding a Jelly Bean soak test for the original Motorola Droid RAZR and RAZR MAXX, and now Motorola has made the update official. The support page h...
AT&T HTC One X
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 07, 2013
Update 2: Never mind AT&T's blog post ... the update most definitely is available now. It's a whopping 630 MB. Update: And AT&T has pulled its blog post announcing all this. Figures...
Motorola Droid RAZR
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 07, 2013
The folks in our Motorola DROID RAZR and DROID RAZR MAXX forums are all aflutter this morning, and rightfully so. A new software soak test -- wherein a few brave souls get in some final testing befo...
Galaxy S3
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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 06, 2013
Hot on the heels of the Jelly Bean update for the Verizon model, the Galaxy SIII (S3) on C Spire Wireless is receiving its own OTA starting today. The update will bring users up to Android 4.1.2 -- ...
Samsung Galaxy Stellar
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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 05, 2013
Verizon has published support documents indicating that the Jelly Bean update for the Samsung Galaxy Stellar is on its way out. The update to Android 4.1 -- software version JZO54K.I200VRBMA1 -- is ro...
TF300
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 04, 2013
ASUS has announced that they will begin pushing the Android 4.2 over-the-air update to the Transformer Pad TF300 for folks in the US today. Other regions will follow during the month of March. This ...
Photosphere Installer
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by Richard Devine
Mar 01, 2013
Yes, that's my LG Optimus Black, and yes, it is running Photosphere. It's the same Photosphere that distant relation the Nexus 4 is running too, not the LG version found on the Optimus ...
Xperia TL Jelly Bean
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 01, 2013
Following in the footsteps of its international cousin, the Sony Xperia T, AT&T's Xperia TL is now being updated to Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean. In addition to the underlying OS update and...
LG Optimus LTE III
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by Richard Devine
Feb 27, 2013
At first glance you'd be forgiven for mistaking what we see here for an LG Optimus L7, but it is in fact reportedly the latest in the Optimus LTE line -- the imaginatively titled Optimus LT...
ASUS Memo Pad Smart 10
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by Richard Devine
Feb 26, 2013
More ASUS related news has emerged from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, this time concerning the UK launch of their MeMo Pad tablets. Both the 7-inch and 10.1-inch tablets will be available to...
ASUS
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by Richard Devine
Feb 25, 2013
Another busy day in Spain has drawn to a close, and center of a decent piece of todays new devices announcements was ASUS. In the way that only Johnny Shih and company know how, ASUS today introduce...
Sprint Galaxy Victory 4G LTE
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by Andrew Martonik
Feb 25, 2013
Frequent firmware leaker Samsung-Updates has just put up a preliminary leak of the Jelly Bean OTA for the Galaxy Victory 4G on Sprint. The device launched back in September of last year, disappointing...
Lenovo
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by Richard Devine
Feb 24, 2013
Lenovo has outed their latest lineup of Android tablets over in Barcelona at Mobile World Congress. None have particularly inspiring names, but launched today are the 7-inch A1000 and A3000, and t...
Galaxy S3 Android 4.2.1
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by Andrew Martonik
Feb 22, 2013
  Frequent firmware leaker SamMobile has just released what it believes is a build of the Android 4.2.1 update for the international (i9300) Samsung Galaxy SIII (S3). What we're looking at h...
Archos 80 Titanium
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by Richard Devine
Feb 22, 2013
Archos introduced a whole raft of new Android tablets last month at CES, and in the UK the budget oriented 80 Titanium is now on sale. Available from high street retailer, Carphone Warehouse, the ch...
LG Optimus G
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by Richard Devine
Feb 21, 2013
Sometime after the initial launch of the LG Optimus G, Europeans are finally getting a chance to sample it for themselves. We'd previously heard rumors that the Optimus G would be available in E...