The Galaxy Reverb is a budget phone on a budget network, the kind that we generally expect to be released, promptly forgotten, and never, ever updated to a later version of Android. But lo and behold, several Virgin Mobile customers on both Reddit and Android Forums are reporting that their phones are receiving over-the-air updates to Jelly Bean 4.1.2. One poster stated that he'd spoken with a Virgin representative who said the the OTA was scheduled for May 22nd, but at least a few seem to have been updated early.

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Suddenly, A Wild Jelly Bean 4.1 Update For Virgin Mobile's Samsung Galaxy Reverb Appears [Update: Official] was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

QWERTY phones might be few and far between but they haven't died out completely. If you have a Motorola Photon Q and you're on C Spire, you might want to open your Settings menu and check for updates. The round sugary goodness of Jelly Bean is on its way.

The update brings a bunch of improvements in its wake:

Enhancements:

• Google Now
  Added feature that generates real-time notifications throughout the day with relevant, contextual information such as weather, traffic, calendar. To access Google Now, press and hold the phone's search key.
• Voice Search
  Enhanced Voice Search to recognize questions asked in colloquial language, such as "Do I need an umbrella today?" Some questions may receive a spoken answer, while others will trigger a Google Search.

• Motorola Officially Announces Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Update For DROID RAZR And RAZR MAXX
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• Motorola RAZR i Android 4.1 Update Now Rolling Out In The UK

C Spire's Motorola Photon Q Jelly Bean Update Rolling Out (Build 9.8.2Q-122_XT897_FFW-7) was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

AT&T announced on its official blog that the LG Escape will be receiving an update to Android 4.1, and that said update should be headed to devices starting today. The first release of Jelly Bean includes things like expandable rich notifications, Google Now, and possibly some Project Butter smoothness enhancements (all LG handsets I've seen have them, at least).

AT&T's DriveMode app is also included in the update, so there'll be another piece of carrier bloat (arguably of the less than useless variety) in your app drawer.

AT&T Consumer Blog

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AT&T Announces LG Escape Jelly Bean (Android 4.1) Update, Rollout Starts Today was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

Verizon has just announced the Jelly Bean update for the Motorola DROID Bionic, bringing Android 4.1.2 to a handset many thought would never make it past Gingerbread. Motorola has been on an update spree the last few months, and the decision to bump the Bionic to Android 4.1 was made official by Motorola back in October 2012. The version number for the Jelly Bean update is 98.72.22, and it will begin rolling out in phases on April 15th.

The update brings Google Now, rich notifications, the stock Android keyboard, some Project Butter enhancements, and the standard bug fixes and improvements.

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DROID Bionic Jelly Bean Update (Android 4.1.2) Announced On Verizon Site, Rollout Starts April 15th was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

Well, it's that time again – time for the monthly update to Android's Platform Distribution Numbers. Each month, Google publishes the latest figures, letting developers know what versions of Android are currently dominating active devices.

This month, we're seeing a familiar pattern – Gingerbread is continuing its slow descent, hitting 39.8%, down from 44.2% this time last month. Meanwhile the latest and greatest – Jelly Bean – accounts for exactly 25% of the overall distribution, meaning it's finally hit one quarter of all tallied devices. That, for those interested, marks a nearly 9% jump from last month's 16.5% figure.

Ice Cream Sandwich is still strangely climbing, hitting 29.3% up from 28.6% in February.

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Google Releases Android Platform Distribution Numbers For March With New Collection Method – Gingerbread Down To 39.8%, Jelly Bean Hits 25% was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

Released last fall, Samsung's Galaxy Express is a plucky mid-range handset with – for those who don't know – a 4.5" Super AMOLED display (constrained by an underwhelming 480x800 resolution), a dual-core 1.5GHz processor, and a gig of RAM.

If you happen to be carrying around a Galaxy Express, listen up – AT&T, in a post to its Consumer Blog, announced today that an Android 4.1 update has begun rolling out to users, bringing with it everything you'd expect, from Google Now and rich notifications to Samsung-specific enhancements like Easy Mode, Blocking Mode (to keep unwanted calls and texts at bay), and a lock screen news ticker.

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AT&T Announces Jelly Bean 4.1 Update For The Samsung Galaxy Express was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

In addition to the OS upgrade, the latest update also provides some improvements to other areas of the phone. Here's the full changelog:

PadFone Firmware: V10.2.1.9 (Android 4.1) improvement:
1. OS upgrade to Android 4.1.1
2. Improve dictionary function
3. Improve Camera preview function
4. Improve Scrapbook function
5. Improve File Manager application
6. Improve Volume Key problem
7.

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ASUS Releases An Update For The PadFone With Jelly Bean 4.1.1 And Other Improvements was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

• Touch performance improvement
• A simpler user interface for complex features such as WiFi-Direct and Miracast combined
• Multimedia file transfer through Android Beam
• Lock front key feature for QuickMemo
• A memo scribble feature
• Notification bar enhancements
• Google Now support
• Offline Voice recognition and typing
• Quick Translator
• Exchange task sync support

The update appears to be available only as an OTA, so just keep watching for the notification.

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Bell, Rogers, And TELUS Pushing Jelly Bean 4.1.2 Update To LG Optimus G; SaskTel Trailing Close Behind was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

Even though Verizon is not known for having a speedy update approval process, owners of the Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 and Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 are finally about to win the Jelly Bean lottery. The OTAs will bring each device up to Android 4.1.2.

The full list of changes is pretty significant for both tablets. Naturally, a bump from ICS to JB will bring Google Now, offline voice typing, expandable notifications, and several other enhancements and bug fixes. Additionally, each tablet will receive a number of improvements to Samsung's own software:

Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 (pdf)

• New: All Share
• New: Pop Up Play
• New: Group Cast
• New: Floating Keyboard
• Changes to Mini Apps
• Changes to Status Bar layout
• Sync & Connect email updates
• Movies purchased from the Google Play store can be viewed
• Backup Assistant & Media has been improved
• Faster and Smoother screen transitions
• Free Style Widget
• Automatic widget size adjustment

Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 (pdf)

• Changes to the Notification Panel
• Added lock screen icons
• VPN Client has been moved to the Settings Menu.

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Jelly Bean (Android 4.1.2) OTA Approved For Verizon Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 And 10.1 was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

US Cellular's variants of the Galaxy S III and Note II are slated to receive OTA updates to the MB1 build, which includes a bump to Android version 4.1.2 for the GS IIII (the previous Note II update here, previous GS III update here).

The Galaxy S III's release notes indicate only two changes: the aforementioned increase in OS version, and a fix for audio when playing streaming media (this may fix a long-reported issue with Netflix playback on the device).

The changes built into the Note II's update (build R950VXAMB1) are unknown, as it was already running Android 4.1.2.

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US Cellular Galaxy S III And Note II Being Updated To Software Build MB1 was written by the awesome team at Android Police.