JELLY BEAN is the latest Android Verson (4.1)...

It launched around july2012 last week..

Which Phones Will Get Android 4.1?

Nevertheless, some Android devices will have Jelly Bean out of the gate. Google-branded phones--the Nexus S and Galaxy Nexus--will have it, as will the company's new tablet, the Nexus 7, made by Asus.

Motorola's Xoom tablet will have the new version of the OS, too. Although the company hasn't made any statements about when Jelly Bean might arrive on its smartphones, like its Razr model, odds are that now that the company's mobile division is part of Google, it will be adopting Jelly Bean sooner rather than later. Google's $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola's mobile business was completed in May.

Samsung, which makes the Nexus phones for Google, will likely be quick to bring Jelly Bean to some of its phone models, especially its hot, new Galaxy S III. In a statement to Pocket-lint, the Korean handset maker said it will "soon" announce its devices deemed suitable for Jelly Bean.

As for handset makers HTC, Sony Mobile (formerly Sony Ericsson), and LG, Pocket-lint predicts that Jelly Bean will not arrive on their hardware any time soon. LG acknowledged to the website that it's too busy trying to implement Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) to focus much on Jelly Bean....

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Android 4.1 Jelly Bean is going to be quick and saves battery

As Dave Burke, Engineering Director puts it, Android Jelly Bean is going to be "buttery smooth". Android 4.1 has been updated to be "fast, fluid and smooth", using Project Butter.

We could get into technical details of Triple Buffering (GPU/CPU and Display in sync), improved frame rates (60fps across the devices) and touch anticipation, but in essence: this translates into a faster, smoother user experience.

Using Touch Input Boost, Android 4.1 boosts the CPU so that loading times are faster, and therefore uses less battery power.

Updates to Google Play also mean that now app updates are smarter. Rather than downloading and installing the whole installation file, apps only install changed elements, making them on average 66% smaller.

Android 4.1 Jelly Bean looks and plays nice

As the heart of the Android experience, it would be unfair if the homescreen had been ignored. Thankfully, it hasn't. Moving widgets between different homescreens is now more intuitive, with apps and widgets moving out of the way to accommodate. Apps also move around when resizing widgets.

As with every Android iteration, there comes another keyboard. Android 4.1 brings over a new adaptive keyboard that learns your typing and can predict the next word before you've typed it.

Jelly Bean also brings a new Arabic font, and 18 new languages including Persian, Hindi and Thai. Support for blind users is also improved, with gesture support, and Bluetooth supported for external Braille devices

Previously being the preserve of those with fast data connections, Google have shrunk the data for the Voice package so it fits on your individual Android devices too. It currently only supports US English, but local packages are in the works. 

Android 4.1 Jelly Bean loves NFC

Android Beam now comes with the ability to send photos and videos to other NFC enabled devices, and allows instant pairing with NFC enabled Bluetooth devices.

Google is obvioulsy impressed with this functionality, although we're not sure how that handling of videos and photos is going to be handled - we saw hide nor hair of Wi-Fi Direct compatibility on the Google Nexus 7, so it seems media will be sent via Bluetooth.

This means much slower download speeds - odd given the Samsung Galaxy S3 can manage the same NFC trick but do it all at a miuch higher transfer rate.

Jelly Bean Notifications are far more interactive

Notifications now provide more information, as well as becoming actionable. This means that a missed call notification allows you to immediately call back, calendar apps allow you to email everyone going or you can like/+1 other notifications right from your notification bar.

They also become expandable, with the top notification automatically being larger and showing more information, or by swiping down the screen with two fingers to enlarge something specific.

Google's recently launched Knowledge Graph feature on standard Google search has become mobile. A new clean simple UI provides "cards" of information showing you quick info, such as weather forecasts. Swiping away the cards brings up a full web search.

Using the improved voice typing feature (part of the new Google Now line-up in the browser), voice searching is quicker and more intuitive. Asking who the Prime minister of Japan is brings up a card, and speaks to you telling you its Yoshihiko Noda. Alternatively you can ask it to show pictures, starting an image search.