The Google Play Store has outed the imminent release of Jelly Bean, an upcoming Android update. When a user purchases the Galaxy Nexus from the website, the device is listed as “the latest smartphone from Google, soon the first phone with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.”
This discovery was made by an XDA forum commenter and first reported by Droid Life. It suggests the Jelly Bean update is coming soon, so it seems increasingly likely that Google will unveil the new version next week at its Google I/O conference in San Francisco.
The Android roadmap tends to be opaque, with little information about upcoming updates made available in advance. Rumors that surfaced earlier this year indicated that Jelly Bean could be launched as early as the second half of 2012 and could incorporate Google’s Chrome Web browser (currently in beta on the Android platform).
from Ars Technica http://arstechnica.com
