Jelly Bean update announcement coming ‘soon’ from Samsung

Do you guys remember when Google dropped the announcement of Ice Cream Sandwich? It wasn’t all that long ago and until more recently most devices that were said to ‘be getting the update’ are still impatiently waiting. It also took forever for the manufacturers to even consider saying anything about any of their devices getting the update. It looks like they aren’t going to be taking their sweet time tossing out that information with Jelly Bean. That doesn’t mean we will see updates on all available devices before the end of the year though. Samung has stepped up to the plate already and has at least made a statement to let us know they are working it out.

Samsung will soon announce which additional devices are eligible for the Jelly Bean update. As the world’s largest smartphone manufacturer, Samsung leads the Android community with best-in-class devices like the Galaxy S III, and is creating new device categories with products like the Galaxy Note. Samsung has delivered the most Nexus-branded lead OS devices and we are pleased that Google will be bringing Samsung Galaxy Nexus and Nexus S customers the first experiences of Jelly Bean on a handheld device.

The devices mentioned are pretty much no brainers, but good to see in print. Lets face it, Jelly Bean was only announced 48 hours ago and the source isn’t even available yet. That doesn’t mean the OEM’s don’t already have it and are testing it against some of their newest products. Of course it all gets a little trickier when the HAVE TO keep their individual UI’s in place and functioning well. Silly manufacturers. We wonder how many of them will skip ICS and go straight to Jelly Bean. Not that it matters to many of us, that is what we have a great developer community for.

Source: PocketNow via Tmonews