It’s been less than a week since Google released the source code for Android 4.1 Jelly Bean — and independent developers have been hard at work, bringing Google’s latest software to existing devices including the Acer Iconia Tab A500 and Amazon Kindle Fire. Now there are early builds of Jelly Bean for a few more […]
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Hashcode’s Jelly Bean update for the Kindle Fire: Now with Netflix
Want to run Android 4.1 Jelly Bean on an Amazon Kindle Fire? You can. It’s an unofficial software update that’s not supported by Amazon — but once you’ve applied the update you can install the Amazon Kindle, MP3, and Appstore apps and use them alongside Google apps such as the Play Store, Gmail, and Google […]
How to install Android 4.1 Jelly Bean on the Kindle Fire
The Amazon Kindle Fire ships with a custom version of Android 2.3 Gingerbread designed to run apps and access digital media from Amazon’s content store. But users have been hacking the Kindle Fire since the day it was released, convincing the $199 tablet to run a range of software including CyanogenMod 7, MIUI, and CyanogenMod […]
Android 4.1 ported to the Acer Iconia Tab A500 (unofficially)
The Acer Iconia Tab A500 is a tablet with a 10.1 inch display and NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual core processor. It sells for about $399, but you can pick up a refurbished model from Overstock.com for just $290. While the tablet first shipped with Android 3.0 Honeycomb last year, Acer offers an over-the-air Android 4.0 […]
Google releases Android 4.1 Jelly Bean source code
Google is releasing Android 4.1 Jelly Bean source code to the Android Open Source Project today. This will allow device makers to bring the latest version of Android to their phones and tablets. It will also make it a lot easier for independent developers to design custom firmware based on Android 4.1 for existing phones […]
CyanogenMod 10 to bring Android 4.1 Jelly Bean to dozens of devices
CyanogenMod is a custom operating system based on Google Android. It’s designed to run on dozens of phones and tablets, and CyanogenMod 9 is due out any day now. That’s the version based on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. But Android 4.0 is old hat, now that Google is getting ready to release the source […]
Acer Iconia Tab A500 gets buggy, unofficial Android 4.1 build
Google plans to release the source code for Android 4.1 Jelly Bean in mid-July. But some people don’t want to wait that long to start running the software on their phones and tablets. Some folks have already ported the version of Jelly Bean running on the phones Google distributed to developers this week to run […]
Android 4.1 now available for Galaxy Nexus, HTC One X (unofficially)
Google handed developers about 6,000 Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphones loaded with a pre-release build of Android 4.1 yesterday. But the official over-the-air update for all the folks that already bought Galaxy Nexus phones isn’t due out until mid-July. If you can’t wait that long, some of the lucky folks who got their hands on the […]
Android 4.1 coming to Motorola XOOM, Galaxy Nexus, Nexus S in July
Google has introduced Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, the next version of the company’s mobile operating system. It features improved search, voice search, text input, and camera features and the software development kit will be available today. Starting in mid-July Google will release the source code for Android 4.1, and the company will also release over-the-air […]
CyanogenMod 9 RC1 (Android 4.0) arrives, Google Android 4.1 on the way
Google is expected to introduce Android 4.1 Jelly Bean at the Google I/O developer conference later this week — and the company has already added a Jelly Bean statue to its dessert-themed sculpture garden. While we don’t know what new features the update will bring, there’s evidence that the first smartphone to get the update […]