This was a big week for Android updates, with all three carriers releasing Android 4.1 updates to their flagship Android phones — the HTC One X and the Samsung Galaxy S III. But often, these updates are rolled out progressively and you may have to wait a couple of weeks for the update to reach [...]

In Telstra’s most recent public announcement of software updates, they’ve informed users for a range of devices that major updates for their devices are expected to be rolled out before the end of this year. The Samsung Galaxy S II 4G “Ice Cream Sandwich” update is expected to see Telstra approval on November 26th, with [...]

To coincide nicely with the recent release of the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 here in Australia, the upcoming Android 4.1 update for the device has already found its way onto the internet in the form of a leak. The updates themselves — received exclusively by SamMobile — are seemingly early beta builds for internal testing, [...]

Vodafone has published their weekly software update report, and the Galaxy S III is indeed a worthy mention — as we reported a little earlier today. Vodafone have confirmed that Samsung will be submitting the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update for the Galaxy S III soon. “Manufacturer preparing update for submission to Vodafone for testing.” [...]

Another interesting tid-bit to come out of Telstra forum post today, is that Samsung have confirmed what we kind of already knew: the Galaxy S III will be getting Jelly Bean. What this does mean is that Samsung will soon be passing that update over to Telstra for testing and then onto the end-user. “The [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Pre-orders for Google’s tablet, the Nexus 7, are now open and in some countries they’ve been halted due to excessive demand. So we’re wondering how many of our readers have already pre-ordered one and which version they went with (8GB or 16GB). Let us know using the poll below — in the comments you can [...]

Given that I have a spare Galaxy Nexus hanging around for this exact purpose, I decided to flash an Android 4.1 Jelly Bean ROM onto it and see what I thought. From the outset: I’ve only had this ROM installed for 5 hours max, so my thoughts aren’t all that in-depth, I just wanted to [...]

The awesome team at Gizmodo Australia have come across a training document for Google’s upcoming Nexus 7 tablet which is to be manufactured by ASUS and announced at Google IO later this week. Before we even get into the specs, Giz reports that the Nexus 7 will launch here in Australia in July — a [...]

Google itself has outed the existence of a 4.1 version of Android named Jellybean via their own Devices section of the Google Play store. They are offering the HSPA+ Galaxy Nexus for $399 as they have been for a while and in the description as you can see from the screenshot, the description states “soon [...]