Last year, we said that Android 4.1 Jelly Bean will be coming to Samsung’s line of Galaxy tablets, including the Galaxy Tab 2 7.0, the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus, the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1, and the Galaxy Note 10.1. Well, it looks like all Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 owners out there will finally receive their own fair share of the Jelly Bean goodness today. (more…)
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On Sunday evening, we reported that NVIDIA had launched Tegra 4, its next-generation quad-core chip with four ARM Cortex A15 CPUs, and a new massive GPU. At the same time, the company has announced the NVIDIA Shield, a “pure Android” portable gaming device that is designed to bring a unique mobile gaming experience. Shield has been built as a great game controller which happens to host one of the fastest next-gen mobile chip along with a 720p screen. Shield is obviously capable of running Android games like nothing else can, but that’s not it: using technology specific to NVIDIA, Shield can also stream games from a nearby PC and effectively brings “PC gaming” into your hands. I’ve spent some private time with the device here at CES, and here are my first impressions. (more…)
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Archos is coming up with a new product called Archos TV Connect, and the company said that it will turn any HDTV into an Android Smart TV that can use the “full Android eco-system”. The interaction will happen thanks to a special QWERTY remote, which also acts as a game controller. Maybe you won’t have to wait for OUYA after all.
The remote control understands gestures, so swiping work just like it would on a tablet or a smartphone. The Android OS is Android 4.1 (aka Jelly Bean), which is one of the most recent version that you can find in devices like the Galaxy Note 2 for example. (more…)
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The Toshiba Excite 7.7 is not the only tablet from Toshiba to receive the Jelly Bean update today, as the Toshiba Excite 10 too, is on the receiving end of the Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean update, and it will be done via Over The Air (OTA). So far reports available concerning the latest Jelly Bean update for the Excite 10 are few and far in between, but it is still being pushed out in stages to the AT300 and AT305. If you want to know whether your Toshiba Excite 10 has already received the Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean update, then just head on to your device by choosing Settings > About Tablet > System Updates, or you can also take a different route by heading toward Toshiba’s Service Station. If you are an Excite 10 tablet, have you already received the latest Jelly Bean update, and if you did, how do you find it so far?
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If you are a proud owner of the Sony Xperia T, then here is some news for you – the Sony Xperia T has started to receive the Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean update over Christmas, and this is not the only smartphone in the vicinity to enjoy such a firmware update as it was joined by a couple of Droids to boot. This is a pleasant surprise, considering the firmware update’s launch for their flagship Android-powered smartphone is totally unexpected, being a couple of months ahead of the original schedule.
So far, we have received reports that the international version of the Xperia T (model number LT30p) was the main benefactor of this release, in addition to the AT&T branded Xperia TL (LT30at), which we talked about earlier yesterday. Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean is said to offer a significant improvement in terms of your smartphone’s battery life, and of course, who can forget about the added smoothness in the entire user experience thanks to Project Butter. For Sony Xperia T owners who have yet to enjoy this particular update, you can just play the patience card.
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If you happen to be a contented user of the Motorola Droid RAZR and the Droid RAZR MAXX, here is some news for you that would up your contentment level to new heights. Of course, this only applies to those who are subscribers of Verizon, as there were reports trickling in that owners of either handset have already started to receive the Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean update from Verizon via Over The Air (OTA), making this a pleasant surprise this Christmas.
The update is said to be rather large in size, so you might want to do the needful and make sure that your smartphone is hooked up to a power outlet all the time, and falling back on your home’s Wi-Fi connection is a good idea as well, since you can never quite tell just how stable (or unstable) the cellular data connection is. Some of the improvements that accompany Android 4.1.2 would include Google Now and Project Butter, where the latter is more than welcome to make the user experience a whole lot more pleasant, especially when you take into consideration your ageing hardware.
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From today onwards, AT&T subscribers who own the Motorola Atrix HD ought to be able to be at peace with themselves after what seemed to have been an agonizingly long wait – their beloved smartphone will finally receive the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update, which means the Motorola Atrix HD would have joined the ranks of the Samsung Galaxy Note 2,the Samsung Galaxy S3 and the HTC One X+ where having the Jelly Bean update is concerned.
Needless to say, there would have been many new features introduced upon the installation of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, where Google Now would be one of the main ones, as it generates real-time notifications on weather, traffic, nearby transit systems, local restaurants and places of interest, flight information, and live sports scores.
This time around, the updated notifications will group together updates from the same application, while you can opt to expand or collapse any notification. The notification window itself has been empowered for you to view the full text of an SMS message, and a full photo via MMS if you so desire. Have you updated your Motorola Atrix HD to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean already? [Press Release]
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Each release of the latest version of the Android operating system from Google will always elicit different reactions for various folks. Users would ask phone manufacturers just when their particular model would receive the newest version of Android, if possible, and manufacturers would look to the carriers for an answer. Well, Google’s latest Android 4.2 Jelly Bean update is no exception, and it seems that somewhere along HTC’s news plumbing system, a leak has sprung up – thanks to a rather trustworthy leak source known as Football4PDA..
Apparently, the following devices from HTC will receive an update to Android Jelly Bean, and they are the HTC One X+ (Evitare), HTC One XL (Evita), HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE (Fireball), HTC EVO 4G LTE (Jewel), HTC One SV (K2), HTC One VX (Totem C2), HTC One S (Ville), HTC One S C2 (Ville C2) and the HTC J ISW13HT (Valente). Needless to say, some of the more notable names (in the past, anyways) like the HTC Desire range do seem to be missing, so no love lost there. Perhaps it is time you made an upgrade to your HTC device?
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The Asus PadFone 2 was first announced in October earlier this year, before making an appearance at worldwide markets shortly after that. Well, when the Asus PadFone 2 first hit the decks, it came with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich right out of the box, where of course one of the many questions that folks ask is this – would there ever be an Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update in the works? Good to know that the answer is in the affirmative, as Asus had already begun to roll out an Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean update to PadFone 2.
It seems that this update will be done OTA (Over The Air), meaning you will have to download it directly over to the PadFone 2. Just to recap on what the Asus PadFone 2 is able to deliver in terms of hardware specifications, we are looking at a 4.7” Super IPS+ HD display, LTE connectivity, dual band Wi-Fi support, Bluetooth 4.0 connectivity, a quad-core 1.5GHz Qualcomm processor, a 13-megapixel rear camera, a 2.1-megapixel front-facing camera, 2GB RAM, a choice of 16GB, 32GB and 64GB of internal memory, and a 2,140 mAh battery. Image courtesy of Engadget.
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Proud owners of the original Samsung Galaxy Note GT-N7000 will be happy to hear that Jelly Bean 4.1.2 has just been leaked via SamMobile. But before you jump up and down to celebrate, do note that this is a test firmware version, which means that it has a couple of glitches and that it cannot be accessed via KIES. SamMobile says that the N7000XXLSA Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean test firmware version is the first ever for the international device. (more…)
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