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by Alex Dobie
Dec 17, 2012
Sony Mobile has provided another update on the progress of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean updates for its 2012 Xperia smartphones.
First up, the company confirmed that its high-end late 2012 devices, ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 14, 2012
The Verizon Galaxy S3 Jelly Bean update. We've got it. Some of you have got it. We're installing now.
... And we're up and running. The 400MB update takes a few minutes to in...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 14, 2012
Mark it, Dude. The AT&T this morning announced that the Motorola Atrix HD is getting an update to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean starting today. That means you get cool things like Google Now, that Proj...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Dec 13, 2012
Friday's the day, folks, when the Verizon Galaxy S3 finally gets its official Android Jelly Bean update. The carrier has been teasing us with the support docs for a couple days now, and finally ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 13, 2012
OMG, it's finally here. As a reminder, here's the full changelog for Android 4.1, software version 3.15.651.16:
Upgrade to Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean)
HTC Sense 4+
Improved ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 13, 2012
There's nothing quite like the rollout of a major update on Sprint, folks. Never experience one before? Picture Times Square on New Year's Eve. Add a dash of a major chess tournament, a gian...
Article
by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 12, 2012
There's a whole lot of people waiting on the Jelly Bean update for the HTC EVO LTE. They are an anxious bunch. There's a good reason for the anxiety, as dates keep coming and passing, with n...
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 12, 2012
It was just a matter of time before we got something official out of Verizon indicating that its Samsung Galaxy SIII (S3) would be receiving a Jelly Bean update. Verizon has just published support d...
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by Alex Dobie
Dec 12, 2012
Hot on the heels of the Wifi and HSPA+ Galaxy Note 10.1, the Wifi-only model (GT-N8010) is today receiving its update to Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean. The over-the-air update package, which tips th...
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by Alex Dobie
Dec 11, 2012
It looks like British TV network Sky is starting to catch up with the the pace of Android OS upgrades. Today it's launched a new version of its Sky Go mobile TV app, introducing support for 14 n...
Article
by Andrew Martonik
Dec 08, 2012
The PadFone 2, ASUS' successor device to that weird interesting phone inside a tablet inside a laptop contraption, is finally grabbing an OTA to Jelly Bean starting today. We were surprise...
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by Richard Devine
Dec 07, 2012
First, we had the HTC J-Butterfly. Next, came the Verizon Droid DNA. Now, what we appear to have is the same phone, with a slightly different name heading for other markets. The Butterfly has appear...
Article
by Richard Devine
Dec 06, 2012
Tasks is a bit of a favorite in these parts. We all rely on Google's services immensely day in, day out, one of which is Google Tasks. In lieu of any kind of official application from Google, Ta...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 06, 2012
We just finished having a look at how well the new Google Now music ID service works, and here we are with some not-so-good news. It's broken on HTC Sense. At first, you'd get an ugly error,...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 04, 2012
D3lit3 writes in our Nexus 4 forums,
I was taking pictures with my baby and I realized that the HDR mode does not show a tick when you enable it. Thus I am left in confusion because I never...
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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...
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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 ...
Article
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...
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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...
Article
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...
Article
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
