If you re a Verizon Galaxy S III user, then the carrier has the perfect holiday gift for you: the latest version of Android .
Galaxy S III smartphones on Verizon will be upgraded to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Friday.
[More from Mashable : Facebook for Android Just Got a Lot Faster ]
Jelly Bean brings a number of new features to the Galaxy S III including Google Now, Google s built-in digital assistant resembling Apple s Siri. Jelly Bean also updates notifications on the phone, allowing you to return missed calls and email from directly within the notifications window.
With Jelly Bean the camera on your Galaxy S III will also see an upgrade, adding a number of built-in Instagram-like filters to the camera app. Videos you record with your phone can be started and stopped as well, allowing you to create one continuous video clip with several different shots.
[More from Mashable: Amazon Launches Kindle Apps in China and Two Other Stories You Need to Know ]
The Jelly Bean software upgrade will start being pushed to phones Friday. Customers will also be able to manually download the upgrade through the settings menu on their handset next week.
Image courtesy of Samsung
BONUS: Samsung Galaxy S III Review
Samsung Galaxy S III The Samsung Galaxy S III is the most anticipated Android phone of the year. It's a powerful phone, with a quad-core processor and a bevy of wireless technologies, but some of its more forward-looking features need polish.
Click here to view this gallery.
This story originally published on Mashable here .
Blog List
-
Kaley Cuoco Shows Off Fit Physique In Skin-Revealing Yoga Outfit - By Suzy Byrne Kaley Cuoco leaving yoga class in L.A. on Monday. (X17online.com)Kaley Cuoco gave new meaning to hot yoga on Monday when she emerged from cla...
11 years ago
Popular Posts
-
Yahoo! editors have selected this video as a favorite of 2012. It first ran in Yahoo! Screen in June and eventually received more than 1 mi...
-
NEW YORK (AP) A surveillance video of the woman suspected of pushing a man to his death in front of an oncoming subway train was released Fr...
-
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Shares of video game makers and sellers fell Thursday in the aftermath of a mass shooting at a Connecticut elementary ...
-
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Two bank robbers who broke out of a high-rise jail in downtown Chicago hailed a cab and used it as a getaway car after...
-
As one of his last wishes before his death on Monday night, Democratic Sen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii asked that Democratic Rep. Colleen H...
-
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The man convicted of some of the cruelest war crimes committed during the break-up of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s ...
-
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) More than 200 Utah teachers are expected to pack a convention hall on Thursday for six hours of concealed-weapons traini...
-
(Reuters) - The owners of an Irish pub in northeast Florida said they were shocked to receive a citation for flying the Irish flag but have ...
-
(Reuters) - Wells Fargo & Co customers on Friday had trouble accessing the bank's Web site for a fourth day, as a federal regulator ...
-
WARSAW, Poland (AP) In Poland, speaking out in parliament is a privilege mostly reserved for lawmakers, but the opposition has skirted that ...
