Jelly Bean - Android 4.1

Syph said:
I own the Motorola Xoom but it's yet to get ICS, let alone Jelly Bean, in the UK.
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It really is very simple to flash a wifi Xoom with a stock US firmware (various guides on XDA, Xoomforums etc) and update to ICS. You can select UK English for everything, prices are in pounds on the market and ICS is so smooth it feels like a new device. It does invalidate your warranty but you can always flash back to a UK stock firmware for warranty purposes.

If you have a wifi Xoom I really don't see any reason to still be stuck on official EU Honeycomb waiting for Motorola to pull their finger out, especially with Jelly Bean out so soon.
 
BoomAM said:
It doesn't say that it IS sorted. Just that it supports it.
The phone was never the limiting factor, it was always the sync to GoogleMail that made them low res.
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I know that it wasn't the phone that made it like that. Well if it supports it then surely they have sorted it? If not what was the point in introducing it?
 
Haha, awesome, my phone's just asked me if I will want to know the traffic/driving time to 'Work', idenitified in Huddersfield - that's some clever shizz. Shame I lost my job a few weeks ago! :( :D
 
So, for the S3, will the Google voice search thing replace S-Voice or do we think Samsung might disable the Google one?

Am I right in thinking that the Google Voice is only on Jellybean and not on ICS?
 
Richie said:
So, for the S3, will the Google voice search thing replace S-Voice or do we think Samsung might disable the Google one?

Am I right in thinking that the Google Voice is only on Jellybean and not on ICS?
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From that video above lets hope Samsung drop S-Voice.. (or maybe if they can customise the In built system to expand it somehow)

I'm amazed to see JB stand up and in those simple use cases out perform Siri..
 
As I just said in the Nexus thread about the new voice stuff:

Yep, that is really, really good. It sounds excellent as well. Though he didn't compare composing messages (in the car for example), and it seemed to struggle a bit with reminders, thinking they were an alarm.
 
Last year, Adobe announced that it is going to stop the development of mobile Flash Player for Android. Adding further nails in that coffin, Adobe has now announced that Flash Player won't be supported in Android 4.1. A prime example of this is the new Nexus 7 tablet, that ships without Flash support.

Furthermore, Adobe has announced that it will cease new Flash Player downloads from the Google Play Store, starting August 15. This means you will no longer see the Flash Player in the Play Store if it is not already installed on your device. Devices that already have the Flash Player installed will continue to receive minor updates and bug fixes post August 15.

Since the Flash Player is not supported in Android 4.1, Adobe is urging users to uninstall it before updating to Android 4.1, as it will not work properly. Also, any future updates to the Flash Player will not work under Android 4.1.

So it seems the era of Flash on Android has come to an end. What was once touted as a key selling point for Android devices is now being killed by its own maker. It doesn't help that Google too wants to distance itself from this archaic technology, as seen by the lack of Flash support in Chrome for Android even under Android 4.0.

It goes without saying that Apple has been instrumental in bringing this change. Sooner or later everyone was going to realize that the emperor was wearing no clothes. It's just that Apple was the first to point this out. Hopefully, the web developers will now finally wake up and adopt more modern technologies such as HTML5 for creating web content.
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Bye bye Flash.
 
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