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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.

Tab 2 10.1
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by Sean Brunett
Dec 04, 2012
Android 4.1.1 (Jelly Bean) is now rolling out to the WiFi version of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 (see our review) in the United Kingdom. Back in September, we saw an update roadmap from Samsung th...
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by Alex Dobie
Dec 04, 2012
Android app developer LevelUp Studio has announced the launch of Beautiful Widgets 5, a brand new version of its popular widget and application suite. New features in the latest version of Beautifu...
Starbucks App
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 03, 2012
Starbucks lovers with a device running Android 4.2 -- quite a few of us now -- have been out in the cold waiting for an update to fix compatibility with the latest OS update. Some problem with ...
Samsung Galaxy S3
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 03, 2012
Coming up on 3 weeks after the T-Mobile Galaxy SIII (S3) started receiving an OTA update to Jelly Bean, users in our forums are reporting seeing the update become available via Samsung Kies for thei...
GMail 4.2
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 03, 2012
Starting today, that fancy new Gmail update -- version 4.2 -- is bringing the much-requested features of pinch-to-zoom and swipe-to-delete to any device running Ice Cream Sandwich or later. But curi...
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by Alex Dobie
Dec 03, 2012
When Sony Mobile announced that its leading 2012 products would be getting upgraded to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, Xperia S owners were left in the lurch, with no timetable for the arrival of their upda...
Samsung Galaxy S3
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by Chris Parsons
Dec 02, 2012
With Samsung having already announced the release date as being December 3rd, it looks like they simply just couldn't wait to get it out the Samsung Galaxy S3 update to owners. Folks on Bell, Ro...
Droid RAZR HD/MAXX Jelly Bean update
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 30, 2012
Verizon's adding the Amazon suite of applications along with Android 4.1 improvements We've known an Android 4.1 update has been in the works for the Droid RAZR HD (and its beefcake...
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by Alex Dobie
Nov 29, 2012
Despite the size of its Android smartphone portfolio, Samsung's doing a pretty good job keeping popular handsets up-to-date with OS upgrades. That's further evidenced by today's news tha...
Galaxy Note
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 28, 2012
Folks with the OG Galaxy Note (the world version GT-N7000 -- the one with the home button) are in for a treat, as SamMobile has a leak of 4.1.2 for the big gal. Be aware that this is a tes...
Galaxy Nexus Jelly Bean
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 27, 2012
With Android 4.2.1 hitting the Nexus 4 and Nexus 10, then the Android Open Source Project, and then the Nexus 7, we've kept one eye open for the venerable Galaxy Nexus. This one gets a little tr...
Samsung Galaxy S3 Jelly Bean
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by Chris Parsons
Nov 27, 2012
*Update* Make that December 3rd. See, this is what happens when Google removes December. If you're the proud owner of a Canadian Samsung Galaxy S3, you're wait for Android 4.1 Jelly Bean wi...
Meizu MX2
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by Andrew Martonik
Nov 27, 2012
Meizu is a name you probably haven't heard of before if you live outside of China, but they're an up-and-coming OEM that's trying their best to offer some compelling smartphones as of la...
From the Forums
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by Andrew Martonik
Nov 27, 2012
Now that Android 4.2 Jelly Bean is the new cool thing, lots of different developers (and weekend warriors) out there have started tinkering around with the code to make something great of it. One of...
Nexus 7
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 27, 2012
Just as we saw this morning with the Nexus 4 and Nexus 10, the Nexus 7 is getting updated to Android 4.2.1 via an OTA update. There's nothing groundbreaking here, its simply a bug fix for the om...
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by Alex Dobie
Nov 27, 2012
This will be old news for those of you in Asia, but the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update for the international HTC One X -- that's the one sporting HSPA+ data speeds and a Tegra 3 CPU -- has today ...
Lenovo P770
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by Andrew Martonik
Nov 26, 2012
Lenovo isn't a name you hear thrown around when talking about smartphones very often. The only product most people in the U.S. have been exposed to is their tablet offering, the Ideatab, and eve...
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by Richard Devine
Nov 26, 2012
One of the visual changes we were 'treated' to in Android 4.2 when it first dropped, was a re-designed digital clock widget. I say 'treated' because its design is a point of contenti...
ZTE Logo
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by Andrew Martonik
Nov 23, 2012
In a rather quick turn-around since the code has gone live, ZTE has just announced that it is pushing an Android 4.2 update to one of its devices. Interestingly enough, this update is pushing to a m...
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by Alex Dobie
Nov 23, 2012
Samsung continues its tradition of hefty upgrades for its Galaxy Note line with the announcement of a new "Premium Suite" upgrade pack for the Galaxy Note 10.1. The upgrade pack, which als...