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The last few days brought great news to Samsung Galaxy S III owners. Three official Jelly Bean ROMs leaked in quick succession, with the latest having yesterday as its build date. And seeing the kind of interest those leaks are enjoying, we’re guessing many of you are wondering if it’s time to jump ship to ICS. Whether or not to leave your stable ROM for a beta version of a more functional and cooler looking one has always been a tough decision, but here’s hoping we’ll help you with it by giving you more details on what you are getting and at what cost. The build version Let’s start with the downsides of the beta release. In fact the latest leaked ROM (build number XXDLH6) only has one major issue, and it’s a rather big deal. We flashed it on two different Galaxy S III units and both of them had issues with their Wi-Fi connectivity. It refused to work with some hotspots and it was painfully slow on most of the others. Unless you have a data plan that you can fall back to this is quite...

The world’s thinnest smartphone will be come soon. It is dubbed the Oppo Find5 X909 and will have only 6.9mm thick. Running on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean OS, the Find5 X909 would boost by a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro APQ8064 quad-core processor, which is found on the Xiaomi MI-2 phone. The Oppo Find5 X909 smartphone will brings a 4.5-inch touchscreen HD display, a 12MP camera on the back, and a front-facing 2MP camera. New X909 phone should equip with 2GB of RAM, 16GB/32GB of onboard storage, and a 2,500mAh battery. Release date or price of Oppo Find5 X909 Android smartphone is unknown at moment. View the original article here

Posted in: Android, Tablets 19 hours ago by Prasad We first saw the Acer Iconia Tab A110 couple of months ago in June. Back then it seemed like a really good tablet for the $200 price tag but we haven’t heard from it since, especially after the launch of the Nexus 7. Now it has surfaced again, this time courtesy of an online UK retailer Ebuyer. What’s more important is that now it seems to be running on Jelly Bean. The images show a striking resemblance to the Nexus 7 UI, down to the placement of the keys below the display and the notification bar on the top, something that you will find only on the Nexus 7 in the Android tablet world. Not that it’s a bad thing. Other specs remain the same as before. You still get a quad-core, 1.2GHz NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor, 7-inch, 1024 x 600 resolution display, 8GB internal memory with microSD card slot and HDMI out. There is no mention of the price this time but hopefully Acer will stick to the sub-$200 price tag that they previously promised. So...

Posted in: Android, Mobile phones, Mobile software About an hour ago by Prasad The opensource nature of the Android OS means new updates are often found running on older phones before they officially hit the newer devices. Keeping with that tradition, today we are about to see the very latest version of Android running on the very first commercially sold Android phone. Yes, you are about to see Jelly Bean running on the T-Mobile G1. This hack was put together by the folks at SoCal Devs and they have details on how to go about doing it on xda-developers forums. While it’s not exactly Project Butter (more like Project Stutter) nor is it particularly stable, the phone does seem to be able to run it somehow. If you still have this phone lying around you can try this hack and have some fun with it. Just don’t expect to be able to use it on a daily basis. Source View the original article here

Posted in: Android, Mobile software 9 minutes ago by Prasad One of the key features in Android 4.1, Jelly Bean is that it automatically encrypts paid applications with a device specific ID, which ensures an app downloaded on once device can only be used on that particular device. This was created to combat the rampant piracy that has been seen on the Android platform. Unfortunately, while the idea is excellent, the execution is not, as several developers and users of paid apps have found out. The problem exists with the way the encrypted applications are downloaded and installed. In Jelly Bean, Google Play Store installs the application in the /mnt/asec folder (which is encrypted) instead of the /data/apps folder. When the OS boots, a service cache is generated for all the installed apps. Unfortunately, this process happens before the /mnt/asec folder is mounted, because of which the the OS cannot find the settings and other user profile data for the app, which causes the paid apps t...

Posted in: Android, Mobile software July 29th, 2012, 13:03 by Kyle Google updated its Factory Images for Nexus Devices page with the stock Android 4.1 Jelly Bean ROMs. There, you will find every ROM from Gingerbread up to Jelly Bean for your Nexus in case you want to return your gadget to the original state. The posted Jelly Bean ROMs cover the GSM Nexus S, GSM Galaxy Nexus and the Nexus 7 slate. You can find them right here. Source • Via View the original article here

Posted in: Android, Mobile software July 26th, 2012, 12:24 by Peter Flash may get a lot of hate, but it’s still a pretty big part of the Internet and a lot of people weren’t too pleased when Adobe announced they won’t release a Flash Player for Android versions past ICS. If you’ve already made the jump to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and miss having access to non-HTML5 parts of the web, then XDA-Developers has your back. There’s nothing complicated that you need to do – just download the Flash Player APK (you’ll find a couple of links at the XDA forum thread), install it with a file manager and make sure plug-ins are enabled in the browser. Yep, that’s it – of course, you can’t really count on support and bug fixes from Adobe and they’ll even remove the Player from the Play Store after August 15. Thanks, Karlo Vranjes, for sending this in! Source View the original article here

HTC just confirmed that a majority of its recent smartphones will get upgraded to Android Jelly Bean. The handsets mentioned include the HTC One X, HTC One XL and HTC One S. This is great news for owners of HTC devices seeing that almost no other manufacturer has committed to an upgrade path for their phones. HTC’s global online communications manager Jeff Gordon had this to say: “We know HTC fans are excited to get their hands on Google’s latest version of Android. At this point in time, we can confirm that we have plans to upgrade our HTC One X, HTC One XL and HTC One S to Jelly Bean. Please stay tuned for more updates regarding device upgrades, timing and other details about HTC and Jelly Bean.” Android Jelly Bean brings several major improvements to the popular OS including what is called Project Butter which should help in making the user interface more fluid by ensuring everything works at a smooth 60fps. [Via - Electric Pig] Dhruv Bhutani is a tech enthusiast who tries to keep...

Google has now made the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean available for Nexus S users via an over the air upgrade. The download weighs in at about 114MB and has been restricted to being a WiFi only download. Google has also listed carriers like T-Mobile , Rogers, Vodafone and Three among others as some of carriers who are rolling out the update on their networks.  Android Jelly Bean includes additions like : Project Butter which makes Calendar, People App, Dial pad and Chrome browser fasterBetter notifications for Calender events, data usage, SMS and MMS and GmailSwipe from the camera viewfinder to quickly review photos, pinch to zoom out to view images in filmstrip modeGesture Mode for blind users to reliably navigate the UI using touch and swipe gestures with speech output Dhruv Bhutani is a tech enthusiast who tries to keep a tab on the latest and greatest in the mobile and telecom sector. He is currently using an iPhone 4S and a Nokia Lumia 800. Catch him on Twitter @DhruvBhutani , you can ...