Motorola Mobility has announced that the DROID RAZR HD and DROID RAZR MAXX HD will be the next smartphones to receive an Android 4.1 Jelly Bean upgrade.
The American smartphone maker, a firm acquired by Google this year, will roll out the software upgrade to customers in stages starting next week.
U.S. telecoms carrier Verizon Wireless, which also offers the Motorola DROID RAZR M, said the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean OS upgrade will push to the DROID RAZR HD and DROID RAZR MAXX HD in phases starting …

HTC has unwrapped on Monday, November 12, a road map for the release of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean to its devices.
The Taiwanese phone maker said the HTC One X and HTC One S are upgradable to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, whereas devices with 512MB of RAM or less are not. The move means HTC One V and HTC Desire C owners are stuck to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich for life or until the firm finds a way to address the memory issue.
“We work hard to ensure each of our products has the optimal user …

Samsung has unveiled the Galaxy S III mini, a compact version of the flagship smartphone Galaxy S III.
The Galaxy S III mini brings the high performance, intuitive ease-of-use and nature-inspired design of the Galaxy S III to an elegant, compact smartphone with a 4.0-inch screen. It can be an optimal choice for consumers who are looking for more practical smartphones.
“The Galaxy S III introduced a new concept of smartphone that has proven hugely popular around the world. We’re now …

Asus has announced that its Transformer Pad Prime and Transformer Pad Infinity tablets will receive an Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update soon.
The Taiwanese tablet maker revealed the good news through its Facebook page, but remained tightlipped on a specific release date.
Given Asus’ excited Facebook status update, we assume the update will roll out in the coming weeks.
“Hooray! We are pleased to announce that we will soon be rolling out the Android 4.1, Jelly Bean update for both the …

Google now claims to have activated more than half a billion devices running on its Android mobile operating system.
The company revealed the data a few hours before Apple launched its new iPhone 5, with Android product manager saying this is a “big day” for the little robot.
“Today is a big day for Android,” he said in a post to Google+.
“500 million devices activated globally, and over 1.3 million added every single day.”
For a while now, the number of …

After its launching event at last month’s IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin, the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 smartphone now has a price and release date to offer.
Clove, an online mobile phone retailer in the UK, has unveiled a £546 SIM free price for the 16GB Samsung Galaxy Note 2 smartphone-tablet hybrid.
The 32GB and 64GB have no pricing details yet, which means longer waiting time for these models.
Clove announced that the 16GB version will arrive in the UK starting mid-October, but …

Ainol Electronics, one of the most famous Chinese tablet and media player manufacturers and one of the OEM suppliers to other companies that offer such products, announced an update for its line of tablets: the Ainol Novo 7 Crystal model.
Based on Amlogic 8726-M6 hardware solution that provides a Cortex-A9 core clocked at 1.5 GHz and an ARM Mali-400 graphics processor, both dual-core versions, Novo 7 Crystal offers an IPS screen with a diagonal of 7 inches and a resolution of 1024 x 600 …

Asus will be rolling out an Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update to its Transformer Pad TF300 tablet.
The Taiwanese tablet maker announced the good news on its Facebook page and said that the Jelly Bean software update will first arrive in the US, but did not include a specific date.
“We are pleased to announce that we will be rolling out a major software update for the Asus Transformer Pad TF300, which will bring Android 4.1, Jelly Bean to the device for the first time in North America,” …

Samsung has released a teaser video of its next-generation smartphone/tablet hybrid device, the Galaxy Note 2, to confirm its launch at IFA 2012 in Berlin next week.
While the Korean tech giant has yet to announce officially the upcoming launch of the Galaxy Note 2 during the IFA conference, the 38-second video clip follows popular German film director Wim Wenders as he discusses when “magical moments come alive”. In between his talks were close-up shots of the Samsung S-pen, a …

HTC has rolled out an Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) update for its flagship smartphone, HTC One X.
“As part of our on-going commitment to ensure customers are receiving software updates that improve their user experience, we are pleased to announce our next upgrade for the HTC One X will be released on August 10th,” the company said in an official statement.
Alas, the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean that all HTC One X users hoped to see is still in the works, and the upgrade to Android …