Sony announces 4.3 Jelly Bean will come to Xperia Z devices

                Sony has confirmed that the latest version of Jelly Bean will be coming to the Xperia Z, Xperia ZL, Xperia ZR, Xperia SP and Xperia Z Ultra. For now, the only tablet that is confirmed to be getting Android version 4.3 Jelly Bean is Xperia Tablet Z.  

            

           Android version 4.3 Jelly Bean may have only been revealed by Google few day ago in Nexus Range, but Sony isn’t wasting any time at all. The company has released a software roadmap for Xperia devices that will be taken into the 4.3 Jelly Bean fold. 

           The smartphone manufacturer has admitted that the Jelly Bean 4.1 rollout for Xperia 2012 products had not been “as succinct or as timely” as the customers might have expected. Sony has written quite a lengthy, informative piece about how it tries to improve and refine its efforts to bring users new Android versions in a blog post.

           

          The rollout of Android version 4.3 for Sony phones will depend on the carrier and market you are in, but the Japanese company says that it is keen on bringing the latest iteration of Android to customers as quickly as possible.

             The company is currently working on making Android version Jelly Bean 4.2 available for Xperia Z and Xperia ZL. Starting early August, Sony will be rolling out the update for the Xperia ZR and Xperia Tablet Z. The company has some more good news – Sony will be looking at pushing some of its other devices running Android version 4.1 Jelly Bean to version 4.3 directly. 

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New iPhone 5S photos leak appear

New iPhone 5S photos appear, specs hint at 12 MP camera, higher CPU clock, quad-core GPU

           

          Parts for the iPhone 5S have leaked quite a few times before, and now we have another batch of what seems to be chassis waiting to be stuffed with internal silicon.

          The more interesting part here are the claimed specs accompanying them, which say that we'll get a 4" 2272x1280 pixels IGZO display accounting to whooping 652 pixels per inch<ppi>, meaning high brightness at frugal battery consumption, the same A6 SoC like in the iPhone5, but clocked higher, and a quad-core PowerVR SGX544MP4 GPU, instead of the tri-core unit we have now.
         

          The source also confirms 2 GB of RAM, NFC at last and the elusive fingerprint scanner we've been hearing about for a while, linked to mobile payment system of sorts, though we have to see the two gigs of RAM listed officially to believe them. As for the camera, it gets downgraded a bit in terms of resolution from the last leaks, claimed to be 12 MP instead of 13 MP now, but a dual LED flash system is confirmed. 

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