It appears that whilst Sony has made great steps to ensure that their 2011 line of Xperia handsets will get Ice Cream Sandwich(except you Xperia Play) the news is not so good for getting Jelly Bean on your 2011 model Xperia Handset. John Cooper the UK Product Manager for Sony Mobile, has been answering people [...]

According to the Vodafone blog the Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade for the Sony Xperia Arc and the HTC EVO 3D have both passed testing and are awaiting rollout by their respective manufacturers. The upgrade will see both the Sony Xperia Arc and HTC EVO 3D go from Android 2.3.4 (Gingerbread) to Android 4.0.4 (Ice Cream [...]

The latest Vodafone Software update blog has a listing that should excite Motorola Xoom owners, they will finally receive their long awaited update to Ice Cream Sandwich on the 30th of July. Xoom owners have been waiting patiently since Ice Cream Sandwich was announced back in October last year and then when Motorola advised the [...]

When HTC put out a schedule for the release of Ice Cream Sandwich to its lineup of phones back in May, I saw a fair bit of excitement from readers about the upgrade coming to the HTC Desire HD. There has been some back and forth in the last week or two with various sources [...]

Asus has never been one to rest on their laurels when updating their devices to the latest version of Android and it looks like this will be the case with Jelly Bean as well. Whilst they have not confirmed that the original Transformer or Eee Pad Slider will get the update I think that based [...]

We’ve received an official statement from HTC regarding the Android 4.1 “Jelly Bean” update for the HTC One XL, One X and One S. No other devices are mentioned by name, however there’s nothing to say there aren’t more updates planned for existing devices such as the One V. “We know HTC fans are excited [...]

Telstra’s software updates page states that HTC is indeed working on Android 4.1 “Jelly Bean” updates for the 4G-capable One XL and the newly released One S. There is no confirmed date for the release of these updates, however we know they won’t be rolling out within the next month if HTC’s track record is [...]

Hold the phone folks, the Vodafone rollout of Jelly Bean to the Nexus S has been halted. Vodafone has just advised me that they have had to halt the update, according to the blog there are some issues. The full statement : Important news We’ve just been advised that due to a software issue, the [...]

Google have posted the official changelog for Android 4.1 “Jelly Bean” which we recommend you have a read of as it’s quite interesting. Google refers to Jelly Bean being “faster” a handful of times and also points out that a lot of the stock apps have new 7-inch interface designs. Does this mean that Android [...]

We love to talk with Australian carriers regarding Android updates and so far Vodafone has been an excellent communicator in regards to what is happening with updates for their phones. When I reminded Vodafone yesterday that I still had my Nexus S and that the countdown to the Vodafone OTA update would begin when the [...]

Sony have begun rolling out the Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” update for the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc globally. Included in that roll-out is the Pearl Blue version (1246–2425) from Optus — the update was officially pushed out last Monday according to Sony, so you should be seeing it soon. To download and install the [...]

Vodafone have let us know via a Tweet (seen below) that Samsung are preparing Android 4.1 builds for the Nexus S and Galaxy Nexus on Vodafone. This is welcome news for users of either (or both) devices who haven’t rooted their way to custom ROMs already running Android 4.1. There’s no time frame for a [...]

Samsung have today pushed out a maintenance update to its flagship Galaxy S III which is said to improve stability and overall performance for Android 4.0.4. We heard back from users who have received the update — which has rolled out to Optus, Telstra, Virgin and generic Galaxy S IIIs so far — who have [...]