Jelly Bean coming to European Samsung Galaxy S III, 15 other devices on the List

While catching news of the next big phone, tablet or event is fun, for many it is a bitÂ impracticable. A lot of people just upgraded their devices in the last few months or aren’t ready for an upgrade just yet. The next greatest thing then is a bump in your devices software. While many choose to root their device and flash a custom ROM, there are still plenty of users out there that don’t, for one reason or another. For those people out there like that, you will be happy to hear the following news.

Samsung has begunÂ releasingÂ the highly desired Jelly Bean (Android 4.1) update to the Samsung Galaxy S III in Europe. First on the list is Poland. Samsung even confirmed the roll out for everyone. Of course the roll out will be gradual and based on carrier approval and tweaking. Which means that they can’t, or won’t, be able to offer a timeline for when your market and device will see the official update. On the bight side though, Samsung said the Galaxy S III would see Jelly Bean in October, so they beat out their original target date.

We have seen a few leaks for a Jelly Bean update floating around for the T-Mobile Galaxy S III. From what we have heard from people playing about with it, it is pretty much ready to go. Let’s hope T-Mobile doesn’t drag their feet and pushes it out as soon as it is good to go and not wait around.

Samsung also offered up a list of devices the will ‘soon’ see Jelly Bean updates as well.

Galaxy Tab 2.7.0
Galaxy Tab 2 10.1
Galaxy Note 10.1
Galaxy S II
Galaxy Note
Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus
Galaxy SÂ Advance
Galaxy S II LTE
Galaxy Music
Galaxy Chat
Galaxy Ace 2
Galaxy Beam
Galaxy Ace Plus
Galaxy Mini II
Galaxy S Duos

We would imagine that the updates will start to trickle out sometime after the Note II launches though. Historically, updates to devices don’t get push out before a new device that sports it stock gets into the wild. Gives customers more incentive to update. At least, here in the states anyways.

There is one statement that I don’t quite understand though. They mention that the update for the S III will make other improvements to current Samsung software, especially the Pop Up Play feature. Adding in the ability to resize the video window. I just got a T-Mobile S III and I can already do that. Yes, I am stock out of the box with nothing done to it yet. Looks like I have some investigating to do.

Source: TechCrunch