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Just a few months ago, LG France accidentally confirmed its LG Optimus G would be receiving Android 4.4 KitKat some time in October, although if you’re an owner of the 1-year-old Android smartphone, you’re probably well aware KitKat has yet to come your way. In fact, November came and went and still no Android 4.4 KitKat, but December looks like it’s the sweet month as the latest version of Android has started to roll out for the LG Optimus G. (more…)
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Sprint introduced the Android Jelly Bean for a variant of the LG Optimus G in March this year, and it seems that rival mobile carrier AT&T is going to follow in their footsteps as well, serving up a nice dose of Jelly Bean goodness for the LG Optimus G. Of course, there was no official fanfare or announcement made, although there were owners of the LG Optimus G who ride with AT&T and they have shared a fair amount of tips as well as screenshots like the one you see above, showing that this is no belated April Fool’s joke, but rather, the real deal itself.
Looks like the weather report for today should read something like this, “We expect clouds and thunderstorms, with plenty of Jelly Beans dropping from the sky.” How come? Well, earlier today we brought you word that not only did the HTC One X over at AT&T pick up the long awaited Jelly Bean update, so too, has Motorola declared that their Droid RAZR as well as Droid RAZR MAXX, will be on the receiving end of the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update. Fast forward to now, and we have word that Sprint’s LG Optimus G too, will finally be getting the Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean update.
Folks living in Europe tend to get the shorter end of the gadget stick, but from time to time, there would be exclusive releases of a device that hits Europe before it arrives Stateside. This time around, the LG Optimus G has been announced to arrive in Europe later this month, never mind the fact that the more advanced LG Optimus G Pro has already been announced for a South Korea release earlier this week. Well, the LG Optimus G was first introduced in select markets at the end of last year. I suppose it was more of a show of whether markets would be receptive to the Optimus G or not, as this smartphone will debut in Sweden this month, with other European markets such as France, Germany and Italy to follow thereafter.
The LG Optimus G is rightfully LG’s most premium and powerful 4G LTE smartphone to date, although we are quite sure that this situation will change sometime down the road, but it is not the time yet. In fact, LG has announced that they will start to roll out the smartphone in more than 50 countries later this month – although folks in North America, Korea and Japan have already managed to get hold of this LTE device, other LTE markets will soon be able to get an idea on what the brou-ha-ha is all about. .
The LG Optimus G, 
While the LG Optimus G might be the first Android smartphone to offer a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro processor, the “downside” was that it came with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich versus Android 4.1 Jelly Bean which we think could have made the experience even better, partly in thanks to Project Butter. In any case if you own an LG Optimus G, you might be interested to learn that it seems that in South Korea, LG has begun to roll out the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update for owners of the handset. LG did initially promise that the update would roll out before the end of 2012, but considering that we’re only two weeks into 2013, we guess that the delay wasn’t too bad. There’s no word on when the US will be getting their Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update, especially since Optimus G handsets locked to carriers will probably have to wait for carrier approval, but hopefully it won’t take too long now that it has already begun its rollout in its home country of South Korea.
