Jelly Bean for Galaxy S III coming soon… or in coming months

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Samsung in August “confirmed that an update should be headed to your device here ‘very soon’ containing none other than Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.”

Today Samsung said it “continues its commitment to bringing the latest innovation to market with the rollout of Android 4.1, Jelly Bean, the latest version of the world’s most popular smartphone operating system, to all Galaxy S III smartphones in the U.S. in the coming months.”

So Android’s top selling device still isn’t using its latest operating system? How can that happen?

Meanwhile Apple released iOS 6 and the iPhone 5 in September. They’ve sold millions of iPhones and 100 million devices were updated to iOS 6 in the first weekend. That’s how an update is done.



  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Sebastian-Paul/1186812355 Sebastian Paul

    Other interesting stuff in that news.

    I wonder where Samsung got the idea for “Blocking mode”, the ability to block incoming calls for a set period of time.

    (Yes, this has been done before Apple, but please explain why these features haven’t been available in Touchwiz when the Galaxy S 3 was released in June, but have only been implemented, after Apple added them in iOS 6?!?!)

  • Nat5150

    Anyone else expecting them to announce it won’t be coming after all sometime between now and the end of the year?

    I just installed iOS6 on my 3GS, a nearly 3-1/2 year-old phone. I’m pretty sure it started on iOS3. That’s 4 OS generations it supports.

    But let’s make fun of the people who wait in line for that kind of support.

    • rj

      On the other hand, iOS 6 doesn’t run on the original iPad, which means some buyers only got about 18 months of support. Disappointing for a $500+ device.

      • Jasper

        Disappointing by Apple’s standards, not by the standards of any of the rest of the industry. And it’s a 1.0 product — they make those without the full economies of scale, without often knowing what it will turn out the device really needed. In this case, they underprovided it with RAM to hit that amazing $499 price point that nobody was expecting it to have — and if it hadn’t been a that price point, the iPad ecosystem as a whole would have been much slower to get off the ground.

        I regret neither my iPad 1 (currently being used by my grandmother) nor my iPad 3.

  • http://www.johncblandii.com John C. Bland II

    Yeah, sucks. That’s the problem with layers on top of Android.

    Touchwiz is nice in numerous areas but I terribly dislike waiting for updates.