Sony Xperia Z Specs: Advantages and Disadvantages

Another monster has came out to beat the others. While Samsung also releases its monster Galaxy S4, HTC with their One, and many others, so this must be the best time in a while to be a Sony fan. The year since parting ways with Ericsson has been one of filling in the blanks - fulfilling fans' wildest dreams was not too high on the agenda. This is not to say that the brand's loyal followers were let down over and over again. It's just that they had to teach themselves patience. Well, those who did have their reward at last.

The Xperia Z is a burst of confidence and inspiration that will rally the troops and send a warning to the opposition. Another message is delivered too, loud and clear: Ericsson is no longer a haunting shadow. Sony has moved on.

The Sony Xperia Z is stuff geeks' dreams are made of, it's designed and built to the highest standard and has raw processing power to spare. IP57-certified - on top of that - for dust and water resistance, it's tougher than most competitors. High-end smartphones aren't quite fit for the beach or white water rafting, but the Xperia Z won't be at odds with your active lifestyle.

Sony Xperia Z Specs:

Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support; 3G with HSPA; LTE
5" 16M-color 1080p capacitive touchscreen with 441ppi pixel density; Bravia Mobile Engine 2
Android OS v4.1.1 Jelly Bean with custom UI
Quad-core 1.5 GHz Krait CPU, 2 GB RAM, Adreno 320 GPU; Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro chipset
13 MP autofocus camera with LED flash and geo-tagging, HDR
1080p video recording @ 30fps with HDR mode, continuous autofocus and stereo sound
2.2 MP front-facing camera, 1080p video recording
IP 57 certification - dust resistant and water resistant
Wi-Fi a/b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct and DLNA; Wireless TV out
GPS with A-GPS, GLONASS
16GB of built-in storage; microSD card slot
Non-removable Li-Ion 2330 mAh battery
MHL-enabled microUSB port
Bluetooth v4.0, NFC
Standard 3.5 mm audio jack
Accelerometer and proximity sensor
Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
Glass front and back panels

Main Advantages

Sony has managed to extract more performance from the four Krait cores than any manufacturer to use this chipset. The Adreno 320 GPU does equally well - it manages playable frame rates using a real-world 3D engine at FullHD resolution. It's hardly a surprise then, that the overall user experience with this one is smooth as butter.

The Sony Xperia Z also comes with the second version of the company's Mobile Bravia Engine, which should improve its performance for video playback and image browsing. Thanks to that and the immense resolution, the Xperia Z has easily the best smartphone display the Japanase have produced so far. It is also the least reflective so far, which helps it perform much better in bright sunlight. Here's how it did in our dedicated sunlight legibility test.

On top you get another plastic lid with the 3.5mm audio jack hiding underneath. While the cover prevents dust and dirt accumulation (in addition of keeping water out), it does have a somewhat negative effect on its accessibility.

The smartphone has a large 2330 mAh battery to rely on, but the quad-core Krait CPU and the 5″ 1080p display are known to consume quite a lot of power. The fact that the battery isn’t user-replaceable puts even more pressure on the Xperia Z to do well here, and we were as curious as you are to find out if that’s actually the case.

Here is the test result done by GSMarena

Main Disadvantage

Low contrast display with below-par viewing angles
the screen is by no means perfect. First of all its viewing angles aren't really great. They are a step forward compared to the Xperia T, but a very minor one. In that area Sony still has a lot of work before it catches up with the competition.

The display has rather poor contrast for a flagship unit and not really inspiring colors. As testified by the measurements in our dedicated test it comes nowhere near the standard of its main competitors and it even fared worse than its predecessor.

Non user-replaceable battery

Unfortunately Sony Xperia Z even come with the great amazing battery, but it hardly can be removed by users. If we want to change or remove the battery, we should go to the service.

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How To Update LG Nexus 4 E960 to Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean Manually

LG Nexus 4 E960 is the next generation of Nexus smartphones which in this time made by LG and Google. It has announced to bring such great features on it that we could difficult not to see the device. Come with the latest Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, now we have some methods to manually update the device into the Android 4.2.2 Jelly bean version.

Note: everything below is working from the assumption that you’re running stock Android and not a custom ROM. If you have a custom ROM installed, you’ll have to find an updated version of that ROM to get Android 4.2.2 on your device. Otherwise you’re going to have to download your stock image from Google and install the factory image fresh (which will erase everything).

Method 1: Easy

The first thing that rooted users should try is :

1. Please going to Settings >> Apps >> All and scrolling to find Google Services Framework.
2. Tap the “Clear Data” button and confirm by tapping “OK”. From there, use the back button to get to the main Settings screen.
3. Scroll all the way down and tap About Phone, then tap System Updates.
4. You’ll see the “Check Now” button to have the device check for updates, and you should notice that the last time the device will be reporting it checked was back in 1969 (which I like to pretend is an artifact of time travel).
5. Tapping “Check Now” should result in beginning the download of Android 4.2.2 and update process for many. It will ask you to confirm that you want to install the update.

Most root users already know that updating the device will remove your root. There are a few ways around this. Clockwork Mod recovery can not only protect itself from being over-written, it can also attempt to retain your root for you. For my own devices, I prefer to use OTA Rootkeeper by Project Voodoo. As long as the update doesn’t format or overwrite the /system partition, OTA RootKeeper helps to maintain a working root (including backing up your su binary).

Method 2: Slightly Harder

If you can’t get the update over the air, your next best bet is to flash the update from your recovery. This involves downloading the update, moving the update to your device, then booting your device to recovery and initiating the install.

1. The first step is finding the Android 4.2.2 update. You can download the Nexus 4 update here.
2. Download these to your computer, transfer them to your device in whatever manner suits you best, and reboot into recovery.
3. For those who aren’t used to it, booting to recovery is pretty simple on a Nexus: you power down the device, and then power it up while pressing (and holding) the volume up and down buttons.

You boot to a screen with a big (green) colored arrow pointing to where your power button is, and Andy the Android in the background. From here, you can use the volume up and volume down to choose different boot options. Boot to recovery by pressing volume up or down until the arrow is red and says “Recovery mode”, then pressing the power button.

Once in recovery, you’re going to want to find the option to install from a zip. This should require you to specify a zip, which is the file you saved to your device. Install the Android 4.2.2 update from that zip file, then reboot your device. The update will run its final steps before you boot to the lock screen and can enjoy the Andriod 4.2.2 goodness.

Method 3: Kinda Hard, Using ADB

This method assumes you have adb installed. This also assumes you’re updating from 4.2.1 and not an earlier build. If you’re not sure or you have adb installed, you can probably find a good set of instructions here. As always, use at your own risk. This method has also been covered before.

1. Plug the USB data cable from your computer to your device. Be sure you have the Android 4.2.2 update file for your device– again, grab the Nexus 4 update here.
2. Once the file is downloaded, move it to the same folder where ADB is located. Using the steps described above in the previous method, boot into recovery.
3. Within the recovery mode menu you should find the option to “sideload” or “apply update from adb”.

At this point, you must open a command-line window on your computer to run the adb commands. You may need to change directory to your ADB folder. These are the commands that you will run for your device:

Nexus 4:
adb sideload de8b8d101614.signed-occam-JDQ39-from-JOP40D.de8b8d10.zip

After you run these commands, you’ll see a progress bar as the update loads onto the device. The progress will reach 100% and then you’ll see the device installing the update. The update will finish, at which point you can reboot the device from the recovery menu. As Android completes booting up it will run the final install processes, and then you should be at your lock screen.
Once the update completes, enjoy Android 4.2.2!

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Huawei Ascend Mate Reveals 6.1" Quad-Core Android with a 1080p Resolution

Currently, another call from Android devices sounded from Chinese manufacturer. Richard Yu Huawei Chairman of devices showed off the Ascend Mate - a 6.1" quad-core Android smartphone with a 1080p resolution At a Huawei store in Guangzhou, China.

The device is said to be powered by a quad-core K3V3 chip clocked at 1.8 GHz, and offer a 4000 mAh battery, 9.9 mm frame and a screen with the impressive 361 ppi density. Richard Yu shared that the display is of the LTPS type, meaning low temperature polysilicon.
 
Prior to Richard Yu's demonstration of the Ascend Mate Huawei's Senior Vice President Yu Chengdong confirmed the company is working on such a device.

The Ascend Mate should make an appearance at CES, alongside the 5" Ascend D2, and should cost around $480 (¥3000).
It remains to be seen what version of Android the Ascend Mate will be running but Jelly Bean is a safe bet.

So for those who want to get this phablet on their hands and try to use another big-screen phone should wait for a moment. Let's check it out from this video.

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How to Flash Samsung Galaxy Note 2 Jelly Bean Using Android Revolution HD [ROM]

Download Android Revolution HD 3.0 [ROM] for Samsung Galaxy Note 2 with Android 4.1.1. Thanks to XDA-forum members who are always making progress on developing such a great development for the Android users. On this article i will explain a little new ROM for the Samsung Galaxy Note 2, as the latest and the successor of Note 1.

As we already know that Samsung Galaxy Note 2 is released with the latest Android OS 4.1.1 Jelly Bean coming with great features and performances. There are already few devices that prepared to taste this Jelly Bean. Furthermore, for those who want to get more great performances can use this ROM which is already available for downlod on the link below.

Android Revolution HD 3.0 for Samsung Galaxy Note 2 is very fast than the original os, it is look stable and many more advantages you can get from this ROM once installed on your Note 2. These are some comments from the users who already tried the ROM on their Note 2:

Users experience with Android Revolution HD

"My phone is now perfectly smooth, fast, stable. I do not expect much more from my phone!"

DarkAdrien

"This release is amazing! ROM feels super fast! Great job Mike & the team! (...) Never noticed any lag. 1 word: brilliant."

Selec1

"Feels a lot smoother in use - scrolling, swiping between sense screens. Much nicer feel. This is a real good one, Mike. Many thanks "

dsm52

About the ROM

System details:

• Android 4.1.1 (Jelly Bean) - latest official Samsung N7100XXALJ3 firmware
• This is improved version of stock ROM - no visual changes!
• Very fast, clean & stable!
• Multi-language (WWE)
• Full Arabic and Hebrew languages support! (ICS feature)
• For Samsung Galaxy Note 2
• Thanks to Samsung for the base firmware

Included kernel details:

• Stock kernel (the most stable)
• Possibility to choose Perseus custom kernel in AROMA installer

ROM details:

• Removed software (CPU) rendering - full Exynos 4 Quad (GPU) rendering
• Fully optimized and tweaked
• ROOT (su + SuperSu Permissions - Thanks to chainfire)
• Unsecured boot.img
• Newest BusyBox
• RAM optimizations
• System signatures check enabled for system security and safety
• Improved virtual memory management
• Speed optimizations
• Enabled GPU UI rendering
• Data, cache and system partitions mounting tweaks
• Bloatware applications removed
• All /system applications updated to latest available
• All /data applications updated to latest available
• Improved camera performance
• Improved CPU governors performance
• Most optimal system scheduler
• Disabled kernel debugging for better performance
• Zipaligned (Improved RAM management)
• Zipalign on boot (for user applications on data partition)
• Fully de-odexed
• init.d scripts (BusyBox run-parts) support
• Auto init.d permissions set on boot
• sysro/sysrw commands support
• Excellent battery life!
• Improved EXT4 performance
• You can replace Samsung boot animation with any custom one (or use ICS default)
• OpenVPN support
• Most up-to-date system files permissions
• Adobe Flash Player support for Jelly Bean
• Support almost 24h a day
• ...and many more!

You need:

• Samsung Galaxy Note 2
• Custom Recovery

How to flash:

• Download ROM and place it on your virtual SD card
• Download "Super Wipe" script & place it on your SD card (optionally if coming from earlier version of my ROM, obligatory if coming from stock or other custom ROM)
• Boot your phone in recovery mode (vol up + home + power)
• In main menu, select "install zip from sdcard"
• Select "choose zip from sdcard" and browse to the location of "Super Wipe" script
• Once again select "choose zip from sdcard" and browse to the location of Android Revolution ROM
• After flashing process is complete, reboot the device

Changelog

Android Revolution HD 3.0

--- release date: 23 October 2012 ---

• Updated modem
• Multi csc - LJ3 set to EUR (Thanks to ::indie::!)
• Other minor changes and fixes

- Super Wipe or Wipe inside AROMA (saves your internal SD-card) is highly recommended due to new base!

Downloads

(Remember to check MD5 Checksum before flashing)

Android Revolution HD 3.0

--- MD5 Checksum: 2221BA4474B77E5DDC19676DA3BFC7CD ---

Super Wipe

--- This script will erase and format your data (including Internal SD Card), system and cache partition ---

--- Your External SD Card will remain untouched FAT32 and it's recommended to leave it like that ---

--- Your Internal SD Card (/data/media) will be wiped ---

--- You need to copy ROM .zip file to your External SD Card before using Super Wipe ---

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How to Update Sony Xperia Mini X10 to Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) Using Alpha 2

Apparently the developers can't wait for the official of Sony Mobile to announce the release of official update for the Sony Xperia Mini X10. Ufortunately there is no oficial update for the device on the Jelly Bean. Therefore, here is the unofficial tutorial to update your Xperia Mini X10 to Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) Using Alpha 2.

What we may need to know is the latest Android OS 4.1 Jelly Bean is working great on the device even though there are still many features can't working perfectly, but the Alpha is still under development. So, for those who curious to taste the feel of Jelly Bean on their Mini X10, just follow the tutorial below.

This is not an official ROM and hence you need to wipe data to get this working on your device. Wiping data helps you prevent low memory issues and force closes. Before you wipe data on your device, make sure you backup all important data using the steps given in the Prerequisites section.

Before you proceed with the installation, make sure you have rooted your phone, installed ClockworkMod Recovery and unlocked the bootloader.

Working features:

Display
Touchscreen
Bluetooth
HW Acceleration
Usb (Storage and Adb)
Charging
Sensors
Vibration
GPS
Lockscreen
SuperUser
Gallery
Take Screenshot
Hardware Keys
New Adreno200 Libs
Terminal
GSM
Data
Lights
WiFi

Not Working features:


Music playing
Ringer
Notification
In call mic
FM Radio
Camera
Mic
Project Butter
HW video encoder/decoder
Audio/Video Playback
More

Warning

• The instructions in this guide are intended for use with the Sony Xperia Mini X10. Applying these instructions on another device or model may produce undesired outcomes.
• The information in this guide is provided for instructional and educational purposes only. There is no guarantee that these instructions will work under your specific and unique circumstances.
• Use these instructions at your own risk. We shall not hold any responsibility or liability for whatever happens to you or your device arising from your use of the info in this guide.
• Read and understand the whole guide first before actually performing the instructions.

What you need to prepare:

• Before installation of Jelly Bean on your Sony Xperia Mini X10, it is better to back up your phone to keep your files and data setiing on your phone save. Make sure you have rooted your Sony Xperia Mini X10 and xRecovery is installed on your phone. The back up process we use now is using the tutorial below using xRecovery from the files above. For the tutorial to back up your Sony Xperia Mini X10, follow the link here
• Make sure that your battery has a charge of at least 80% to prevent your device from shutting down in the middle of the update process. After you backup your phone, now follow the steps below carefully to avoid any unwanted thing to your phone:

Steps to upgrade the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean on Sony Xperia Mini X10

• Download the ROM zip file and Kernel ftf file from here and here 
• Connect your phone to the SD card and copy the ROM zip file from the Computer to your SD card, preferably in the root folder and not within any folder deep inside.
• Having USB Debugging enabled and the necessary drivers installed, place the ftf kernel file in the firmwares directory.
• Use the flashtool to flash the ftf file to your device.
• After flashing the kernel, turn off your phone and boot it into recovery mode You can use the commandadb reboot recovery to reboot into recovery mode.
• In recovery mode, wipe all data, cache and dalvik cache.
• Go to “install zip from SD card”>”Choose zip from SD card” and select the ROM zip file.
• Go back and select “Reboot system now”.
• To get Market and other Google apps working, you can flash Gooogle Apps zip file which can be obtained from goo.im/gapps

Congratulation, now your Sony Xperia Mini X10 has been updated to the latest Android Jelly Bean, feel free to leave the comment below.

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How to Setup Google Now on Android Phones

Many thanks to Androidauthority that always develop and show good tutorial on the site related to Android phones. However, now we have something new to show you about how to setup, configure, and using the Google Now on Android Phones especially on Jelly Beans phones, but we may use it also on other ICS phones with some rooting tutorial.

There’s some confusion out there in the Android world. Google Now is not Android’s “Siri killer”, that’s Voice Search (which you can get to and use from within Google Now). Google Now is much, much more than an application that listens to queries and spits out answers. I’m not even sure we can call Google Now a virtual assistant either. Google Now is about automating your life and in return, making your life easier. Google Now does that by providing a vast amount of information, pertinent to you, at your fingertips. There’s just one catch though. Those of your that often go full tin foil hat mode really won’t be able to fully enjoy Google Now to its’ full potential. So take off your head gear and let’s get started.

[Google Now] tells you today’s weather before you start your day, how much traffic to expect before you leave for work, when the next train will arrive as you’re standing on the platform, or your favorite team’s score while they’re playing. And the best part? All of this happens automatically. Cards appear throughout the day at the moment you need them.

How to setup Google Now

1. Launch Google Now from either your lock screen by swiping up towards the ‘Google’ icon or by swiping up from any of your soft keys. You can press in and swipe up from the back arrow, home key, and recents key.

Note: If you haven’t launched Google Now until…now… you’ll need to tap through the welcome screen setup.

2. Go ahead and scroll down the to very bottom and tap the 3 dots (menu button) in the bottom right corner. This will launch the Google Now / Voice Search settings. Tap Google Now to customize your Google Now cards.

Note: You can also view Sample Cards and configure them from the Google Now home screen. Scroll all the way down to the bottom and tap “Show sample cards”.

3. Most of you will probably need to leave these settings set to default until you get a better feel for Google Now and what information you wish to have at your fingertips, without having to dig through your phone.  

Now that you have your cards setup, you need to populate them with some data. You can do that by using Voice Search. You can tap the microphone icon and search for your favorite sports team, weather, restaurant, flight numbers, or anything related to the sample cards provided for you.

For example: “What’s the weather today?” “Do the Yankee’s play today?” “I’m hungry for Chinese food”. You get the idea.


To fully get the most of of Google Now, you’ll need to setup a few more tasks revolving around your location. Location settings :

1. Head back into the Google Now settings and tap Privacy accounts. By default, all of these settings should be enabled.

2. Tap Manage location settings. This will take you into Maps settings. For best results, you’ll want location history enabled.

3. After Google Now can identify your home and work address correctly (instead of your favorite place to hangout) launch Maps. Now select Location history. From here you’ll have the option to configure your home and work locations. (Yes, I work more than 21 hours a week on average. My building at work doesn’t provide the greatest GPS window.)

Now you have Google Now setup and ready to show you some cards. You should start seeing cards immediately for weather, distance to work / home, and possibly other locations. If you’re near a bus station you may see that data populate right away as well. As mentioned earlier, you’ll want to start using Voice Search and searching for other card related items to let Google Now know you’re interested. After you start putting information into Google Now, you’ll start to see cards show up in your notifications. Just tap on them to view them or at anytime you can swipe up from your soft keys or home screen.

Tips and Tricks

Once you close or swipe away a card in Google Now or from your notifications, it isn’t gone, don’t worry. It will come back the next time data for that card changes. For example: if you swipe away your weather, it won’t come back until your location changes or your weather information changes.

You can force cards to reappear by tapping the menu icon at the bottom of Google Now and tapping the refresh button. If you’re still having problems, you can always go into Google Now settings, flip the toggle switch off, reboot, and then re-enable Google Now. You shouldn’t have to do this though.

Add locations to your Calendar events. Google Now will then give you a notification when you need to leave to arrive on time.

If you’ve used Latitude to Check-in to many businesses in your area, you may start to see those show up in Google Now. If you just swipe those away, they’ll keep coming back. When these cards are shown, you have the option to no longer track those places by tapping the settings.

Enabling Web History drastically improves the functionality of Google Now. You can control these settings at www.google.com/dashboard.

Lastly, the more you use Google Now, the better it becomes. Enjoy!


Thanks to androidauthority

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Samsung Galaxy S II and S III Get to Join Android 4.1 Jelly Beans Now

Several days ago, Google has announced the new version of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean which will be available on Galaxy Nexus 7 officially. However, XDA developers have also been hard at work porting this newesr version of Android to their favorite smartphones, including to the HTC One X, which can be upgraded to this Jelly Bean yesterday.

Now, the member of xda-forum also working hard to put the Jelly Bean into Samsung Galaxy SII and Samsung Galaxy SIII. They have succeed to put the system into the devices but there are several buggies on the devices waiting to get impoved yet. Even the ROM is alpha, but its ok to try on your device but you have to know that it might damage your device.

Nevertheless, both ROMs are stable enough for you to flash and enjoy them on your devices, if you are into custom ROMs. Here’s a video an XDA member has made showcasing how the Galaxy S II handles Jelly Bean. It indeed looks awesome the device using the latest version of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.

For those who want to try to upgrade to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, the guide from here.

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Android 4.1 Jelly Bean New Features You Should Know

The presence of Android Jelly Bean from Google has been attracted the Android users of its new features and performance. This really exciting when we know that some features may be a little similar to what belong to Apple, including the siri, which is an digital assistant application to help us to do our daily activities.

Indeed, this Jelly Bean has been announced officially as the Google itself makes a statue of its Android. Furthermore, even though Jelly Bean is open source this also means Google can’t make money off it, at least not directly.

Moreover, the company does not control software updates, which is why we currently have a pretty fragmented Android ecosystem and that can be annoying at times for end-users and developers. Since OEMs and carriers are in charge of software updates and since they’d rather sell new devices instead of updating the old, we’re not surprised to see Ice Cream Sandwich, Google’s Android 4.0 update that was released in late 2012, only available on around 7% of available Android devices.

We can only hope that Jelly Bean will have a much better faith than its predecessor, and that it will soon be available on current ICS handsets. What’s worth noting is that Jelly Bean seems to be rather an incremental update (Android 4.1) instead of a major refresh (Android 5.0), which must mean that most devices that are running ICS or are upgradeable to ICS would also support Jelly Bean later down the road.

According to a conference that was held on San Fransisco, United States, here are the main new features of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean:

Better performance: “Project Butter” describes a new Google initiative to offer Android users a faster, more responsive OS starting with Jelly Bean by optimizing hardware usage, improving overall user experience and prolonging battery life.

Home screen and widgets: in Jelly Bean users will be able to better customize their home screens as the OS will help them neatly place widgets by making the most of the available space on cluttered screens.

Text input: Google revealed it has updated both its touch-based and its voice-based typing (dictation) features in Jelly Bean. The stock keyboard comes with a refined dictionary and predictive text support, while the dictation feature is also available offline.

Accessibility: Jelly Bean will offer several gesture- and voice-based features that make Android more accessible to visually challenged users.

Camera:  the camera app has been slightly updated to offer faster image access.

Android Beam: the app now supports NFC-based picture and video sharing with other NFC-enabled devices as well as NFC-based connectivity with Bluetooth devices

Notifications: the app has been updated to better serve the needs of mobile device buyers. The new Notifications area now lets users do more things right inside the Notifications screen without having to switch to the app that pushes notifications in order to perform certain app-specific tasks.

Google Now: one of the main features of Jelly Bean, Google Search has been redesigned from the ground up. The search offers a new user interface, advanced voice-based search and a Google Now feature. Instead of displaying regular web results, Google Search now displays cards with information and images, both for typed and voice-based queries, although regular Google Search results are also available. The search engine has been upgraded to employ the Knowledge Graph technology, which understands what the users are actually looking for. Finally, Google Now takes into account all the data Google has about you to offer tailored, automatic responses based on Search and triggered by daily activities.

Maps: while Google did not mention Google Maps during the Jelly Bean section of its first keynote, we’ll remind you that the company held a special media event ahead WWDC 2012 to demo its next Google Maps update which will offer 3D maps and Google Maps offline support.

Google Play: over 600,000 apps that work automatically on most Android devices without the need of further customization.

Other features: not all the Jelly Bean features have been demoed on stage and we expect to learn more as we move forward.

Currently the main device that will be planted with this Jelly Bean is the tablet Galaxy Nexus 7 that will be made by Asus. But, it can already be tasted on HTC One X using Android 4.1 Jelly Bean even there some issues from the developers.

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HTC One X already can be Upgraded to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean (Unofficial)

After the interesting news considering the official Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, which later known to put on Galaxy Nexus, now HTC One X also able to taste the latest Jelly Bean. According the XDA-forum, this update is based on the images of the Galaxy Nexus and it still has many issues waiting for the later development.

The current issues of the HTC One X using the Jelly Bean, are:

• Wifi
• Audio
• Camera
• Probably more

Some member said:
"I've started to port the Galaxy Nexus image instead. The new version is a lot more stable, and I guess I've had a bit of a change of heart with regards to updating. This version is more complete and comes with all of the updated gapps, which means we get all of the awesome stuff that was shown at IO".

Still, it’s amazing how quickly a new Android can be ported to a new device based on a completely different chipset. Check out this video to see Jelly Bean running on the One X:

If you want to try this unofficial update of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean on your device, download the file below and follow the instruction on the forum to avoid any unwanted things to your device.

DOWNLOAD

Remember to flash the boot.img in the zip.

Notes: When you're going through the setup, the waiting page (After you select language) takes a while, sometimes it fails and resets to the start of setup.

Source - Via

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Android 4.1 Jelly Bean is Officially Announced by Google, Let’s Take a Look Inside

Android currently becomes more advance and step ahead from another operating system in Smartphone. Google finally announced the next version of Android OS carrying the name Jelly Bean, Android 4.1, to include several new features and performance updates.

After Android OS masters the market of Smartphone around the world to include the famous Ice Cream Sandwich, including Samsung, HTC, and other mobile phone, now they really want another wins from Windows Phones.

Features and Performances under the name project Butter

Firstly, Android 4.1 Jelly Bean focuses on its performance, which is specifically improving UI responsiveness of the system. Google has dedicated a whole project codenamed Butter to improving Android performance. By making the vsync of the screen at a constant 60 frames per second, it makes the UI smooth as, you've guessed it, butter.

It even goes as far as to anticipating where your finger is and start drawing from that point to make the UI appear even smoother. Google showed two Galaxy Nexus smartphones, one running Ice Cream Sandwich and the other Jelly Bean to demonstrate the huge difference that Project Butter makes. It's really quite impressive.

Keyboard and voice input updates

Looking at the the keyboard typing of Jelly Bean is also improved to better and more accurate predictive input and extended dictionary. On top of that, Voice Typing in now available offline. This means that it no longer requires data connection to work and its performance won't be affected by its slow speed. On the demo it worked pretty well by fixing a misheard word (from Known to Though. Accessibility has also been improved adding new gestures and external support for Brail input.

Camera 

Taking photos got more intuitive as well. Jelly Bean brings new UI and gestures, so you can swipe sideways to access the gallery (yes, just like on the WP smartphones). You can then quickly delete images by swiping them off the screen.

Notifications

The notification bar has also seen its fair share of changes. It shows you a more prominent looking clock and allows notifications from various apps like Music, Pulse and Gmail to be expanded to give you more details without having to open the app.

Through an improved notification builder, apps can create notifications that use a larger area, up to 256 dp in height. Three templated notification styles are available:

• BigTextStyle — a notification that includes a multiline TextView object.
• BigInboxStyle — a notification the shows any kind of list such as messages, headlines, and so on.
• BigPictureStyle — a notification that showcases visual content such as a bitmap.

Google Search

The Google search has been significantly altered too. Natural language commands are now supported as Google is obviously ready to mount a serious challenge to Siri. When you initiate a search you get a minimalist design card. What’s really cool is when you swipe to the left it shows you a list of Google Search results.  Google Now is another new part of Google Search, which can show you public transport listings, flight information as well as sports results.

Availability

According to the source, Android 4.1 Jelly Bean will be available in mid-July with a developer SDK preview available right now on the Android Developers website.

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