Verizon Wireless support has confirmed an upcoming software update for the Samsung Galaxy S III Android smartphone. The nearly 130MB VRBMD3 upgrade includes significant new enhancements, including Multi Screen, Multi Window, S Beam’s Auto Share Shot, the Best Shot camera option, a Smart Switch tool, Paper Artist and more. There are also some bug...
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The photos and video within this post purportedly show a Google Nexus 4 running an upcoming Android 4.3 Jelly Bean update (Build JWR45B). The Nexus smartphone with the unreleased firmware was spotted hiding out at the TG Fone shop booth at Thailand Mobile Expo 2013. We get a close look at the about section...
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Verizon Wireless has finally released a significant upgrade for its variant of the Samsung Galaxy Note II. The JZO54K.I605VRAMC3 update brings the Galaxy Note 2′s software version to Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean and comes with a long list of new features and enhancements. This includes better app support for Multi Window View, a notification...
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Sprint Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE users rejoice, your Android 4.1 Jelly Bean upgrade has arrived! The 9.8.2Q-122_XT897_FFW-5 update delivers popular Jelly bean features and additional enhancements/fixes to the nearly 10-month old smartphone on the Now Network. The upgrade should be pushed out in phases over the next few weeks. Users can also try...
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As promised, Verizon Wireless will soon upgrade the Motorola Droid Bionic to Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean. The 98.72.22 OTA software update will be pushed out in phases beginning Monday, April 15. Jelly bean introduces significant new features to Big Red’s original 4G LTE handset, including expanded notifications, a smarter keyboard, more intuitive voice searching...
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The LG Optimus G Pro, which released in Korea in March, will soon get a “Value Pack” software upgrade on April 12th. The update will add new and improved UX features, which include Smart Video, Pause & Resume Recording and Dual Camera. Smart Video integrates eye recognition to automatically play or stop video without...
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Facebook Home will be released on Google Play for select Android devices on April 12, but the folks at Modaco have already leaked out a pre-release APK for eager users who can’t wait till the end of the week to test out the new software. The early build of the social media-driven home and...
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Facebook Home was announced today as a new home and lock screen replacement for Android that’s geared around the popular social media network. As we mentioned earlier, the UX will be available for free on Google Play on April 12th, but which devices will support the new software? According to Facebook, Home will only...
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Today, Asus started rolling out the Android 4.2 Jelly Bean upgrade to the Transformer Pad Infinity (TF700) tablet. While Asus did not reveal a proper changelog for the software update, which was announced in a brief message on Facebook, Android 4.2 should enhance performance and stability, as well as introduce several new features, which...
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Sprint has made a firmware upgrade to Android 4.1 Jelly bean available for the 18-month old Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch smartphone. Unlike most updates, which are pushed over the air in phases, the GB27 software update is only accessible to the user as an over-the-wire download on Samsung’s support site. Epic...
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Along with the new wallpapers and ringtones, the Samsung Galaxy S4 ROM dump also made the new S Voice app available for download. It’s supposedly working well on the Galaxy S III, Galaxy Note II and Nexus 4, though there have been reports of some issues with AOSP-based ROMs. S Voice is based on...
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After briefly taking time out to attack the Samsung Galaxy S4, it looks like HTC is back to focusing solely on its own flagship Android smartphone. The Taiwan-based handset-maker posted a short video advertisement promoting the HTC One and its new BlinkFeed software. BlinkFeed streams all your favorite content, including news, social networks and...
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Verizon Wireless posted the full changelog for the Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean OTA update that should already be rolling out in phases to the Galaxy Nexus. As expected, the JDQ39 upgrade introduces significant, new features like Photo Sphere, Notification Panel enhancements, LockScreen Widgets and Gesture Typing to Big Red’s LTE variant of the Galaxy...
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In this video, Samsung demos S Translator, Air View, Dual Camera and Sound & Shot on the Galaxy S4 Android smartphone. All of those software features were highlighted during the Galaxy S4 press conference, but now Samsung gives a more intimate look in this 3-minute long promo clip. It’s too bad Samsung didn’t take...
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Following recent upgrades to the Droid Razr and Droid Razr Maxx smartphones, Verizon Wireless has officially started rolling out the same Android 4.1 Jelly Bean firmware update to the legacy Motorola Droid 4. The D4 was previously on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, so users should notice significant improvements and enhancements. The 98.72.18.XT894 software...
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