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On Monday, Netgear added support for Beamforming+ to its R6300 802.11ac Dual Band Gigabit router, as well as its A6200 USB adapter, offering users better wireless Internet performance and reliability. For those who already have one (or both) of the devices, a firmware update has also been rolled out that adds Beamforming+ support to the devices. With the added support, users will see their 802.11ac gain additional speed, among other things.

Beamforming+ is a signal optimizer that pinpoints a Wi-Fi device’s location and sends the wireless Internet signal its way, keeping tabs on where the device is at. In addition, the signal is amplified via adjustements, both of which combine to offer increased reliability and performance. As a result, users will see their download speeds increase, and will find some activities that have had issues don’t anymore, such as talking over VoIP or watching a high-definition video.

“802.11ac is the wireless standard you need to support the increasingly heavy demands on your network for voice, video and data … Our test data demonstrates that when we enable Beamforming+ on our R6300 WiFi Router, we see performance increase by 60 percent at a distance of around 50 feet when connecting to an 802.11ac device.”

Those who have the R6300 router or A6200 adapter can download the firmware upgrade now from Netgear’s Support site. Other 802.11ac users who want to take advantage of Beamforming+ are going to have to wait a bit longer, however. Netgear says it anticipates have a firmware upgrade for the rest of its 802.11ac routers available in “early summer,” though it doesn’t specify a date, and phrases it in such a way that the date may change.

[via Netgear]

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After months of treading water with Ice Cream Sandwich, the Xperia Tablet S is finally being blessed with a taste of Jelly Bean. Starting tomorrow between the hours of 9AM – 10AM PT, Sony will begin rolling out Android 4.1.1 to its second-gen slate in the US, Canada and Latin America. While release details are scarce, the company stated that it will issue a changelog alongside the update. Though Jelly Bean is likely on its way to becoming yesterday’s news, at least Sony is keeping its promise and that’s gotta count for something, right?

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Pebble has been on a rapid cadence with smartwatch updates to justify those crowdfunded dollars, and it’s not letting up just because watch shipments are well underway. PebbleOS 1.10 has arrived with support for custom watch faces built using the matching (and newly available) SDK. The revamp will be especially helpful for iOS users — we see several fixes for crashes, permissions and power in store. Everyone gets options to disable backlighting and vibrations in certain conditions, too. As such, there’s every reason to fire up the Pebble app for an upgrade, even if it’s just for some visual variety.

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There has been some talk surrounding the 1308 firmware which arrived in Europe recently, targeting the Nokia Lumia 920 mostly, but do bear in mind that the Nokia Lumia 620 is also a part of that particular update, and it seems that a global rollout has already happened as the Internet has been abuzz with word from owners of the Lumia 620 that they have begun to receive this 1308 firmware update Over The Air (OTA).

How did we come to the conclusion that this is a global rollout? For starters, we have received word from Germany all the way to India and even Malaysia, where Lumia 620 owners have reported that they are receiving the firmware patch that is touted to improve overall performance. Among the other fixes on the Lumia 620 include better touch screen functions, corrections in multi-touch actions, improved voice quality with Bluetooth headsets, enhanced camera performance, and a more stable system among others.

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Life is not all a bed of roses for some folks, and the same adage too, can be applied to the world of smartphones. Having picked up the latest firmware update at the end of last month, the Nokia Lumia 920 has since seen handsets on the AT&T network run into firmware update issues, and folks who lived across the pond, too, managed to enjoy the Lumia 920 firmware 1308 update sometime last week as well.

There seems to be a rather major issue when it comes to connectivity, and this particular problem – an important one considering how data hungry we all are these days, will show up in a variety of ways, ranging from missed to dropped calls, in addition to being just plain slow where data speeds are concerned. In a nutshell, the whole lot of Lumia 920 owners who have updated their respective handsets to the latest firmware update have been disappointed, and at least Nokia is aware of the issues, and are working to resolve it as soon as possible, even taking the trouble to stop distributing 1308 to AT&T users.

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