Motorola devices get Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update in Q1 2013

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Motorola has announced that it will continue to provide Jelly Bean updates in the first quarter of 2013. The company has updated its “Software Upgrade New” page with new info that will be of very much interest for Motorola device owners.

On the upgrade page Motorola has added new devices that will receive the Jelly Bean update in the following months. These devices include the Electrify M XT901 (U.S. Cellular), Canadian RAZR HD XT925, Australian RAZR M, and European RAZR i XT890. The specific release dates haven't been revealed, so we will have to wait for that info to become available.

The company has recently released Android 4.1 for the Atrix HD and rolled out Jelly Bean for its RAZR M and RAZR HD smartphones in November. The RAZR MAXX and DROID RAZR also received updates in December.

While it is nice to see new devices getting added on the software upgrade list, it is somewhat disappointing that Motorola has added only four devices. We hope that more devices will be added in the coming months including the PHOTON Q, Droid 4, Droid Bionic and several others.

Rumor: Verizon X Phone candidate discovered, to pack dual-core Snapdragon S4 Pro processor

by Chris Smith, 1 day ago

A new report says that Verizon may release in the future a Motorola handset similar to the XT1058 (rumored AT&T XFON), suggesting that a CDMA Google X Phone may be launched alongside a GSM version…

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MasterMuffin

If that’s real, I can now safely say that the X phone isn’t Nexus, but rather a slightly skinned Motorola phone (if that screenshot is true) because the “droid blast” icon doesn’t follow the design line of the other holo icons
Fievel

“Droid Blast” sounds like something you’d need to take Imodium to prevent from happening again.
- Justin Kos
  
  Makes me think of robots doing cocaine
etiggy

It was nice while it lasted, well, back to waiting for the next nexus in november.
chris pinkston

Love the way the render looks.
Ryan Behmanesh

The concept picture looks pretty sweet but the specs are a year old. If this is true, I’ll pass.
http://twitter.com/Space_0001 No name

Google should give Motorola chance with next nexus device or make multiple Nexuses with more then one manufacture.
Main problem in my point view with Motorola is slow update I hope after Google acquisition it will be faster I will skip this device if it is not Nexus and I will C if Motorola getting better in updating wise or not.
702Mike

Hate to kill the excitement here, but just by seeing the “droid blast” option we know it’s Verizon exclusive and that kills the possibility of it being a nexus. It would be cool to see software from all the different oem’s directly available for nexus devices or even all phones. For example, what if you like the build quality of a Motorola but the Samsung touch wiz software. Or you like HTC sense but want a removable battery and expandable storage options of Samsung Galaxy phones. This would also grant the ability to turn any hardware capable phone into a nexus style device as well.

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