SGS3 owners on Sprint, your JellyBean starts today

[Bateluer]

http://community.sprint.com/baw/com...g-galaxy-s-iii-customers-rollout-starts-today

Today, Sprint became the first U.S. wireless carrier to offer the Android™ 4.1.1, Jelly Bean, update to its Samsung Galaxy S® III customers. The update began rolling out today and adds a host of new and enhanced TouchWiz® features, offering a faster, richer and more responsive device experience.

The update is available as an over the air update. When your Galaxy S III is eligible for the update, it will automatically download. Once the download is complete, you will be prompted to install the update. Installation will take a few minutes, and your device will be disabled during the installation process. It will be ready to use when the process is complete.

Jelly Bean offers users a smoother, faster and more fluid experience with expanded feature functionality, including:
Google Now™ gets you just the right information at just the right time, like how much traffic to expect before you leave for work or when the next train will arrive as you’re standing on the platform. Google Now can be launched by pressing and holding the menu key from the home screen.
Expandable, actionable notifications allowing you to take action directly from the notifications shade.
Android Beam™ now lets you send photos and more.
Widgets work like magic as you place widgets on the screen, everything else automatically moves to make room; when they're too big, widgets resize on their own.

Samsung also added new capabilities to Galaxy S III, including:
Camera Enhancements:
New live camera and camcorder filters offer a range of new ways to spark your creativity. Warm vintage, cold vintage, black and white, sepia, color highlights (blue, green, red/yellow), and many more are selectable from the main camera screen.
Pause and resume while recording video allows users to string together multiple captured video clips from a party, birthday, or sporting event into a single file with no post editing required.
Low light photo mode takes advantage of Galaxy S III’s best-in-class High Dynamic Range (HDR) capabilities and offers an optimized mode for low light and indoor photos.
Pop Up Play Update easily resizes or pauses the Pop Up Play picture-in-picture video window, taking full advantage of Galaxy S III’s powerful processor and large 4.8-inch display.
Easy Mode is a simplified user experience option for first-time smartphone owners, providing large home screen widgets that focus on the device essentials.
Blocking Mode can disable incoming calls, notifications, alarms and LED indicators for a designated period of time.
Improved Usability with access to multiple keyboard options and the addition of the Swype® keyboard.

With the Jelly Bean update, Galaxy S III will also add support for some exciting new accessories.
AllShare® Cast Wireless Hub allows users to wirelessly mirror their phone screen to any HDTV or HDMI® display. It even supports licensed content playback of premium TV and movies.
NFC One Touch Pairing Support pairs Galaxy S III with supporting NFC Bluetooth® accessories in a single touch.

 

[bearxor]

Sprint and TMobile are usually very quick. I still didn't think it would happen before the end of the year though. It's only like, what, 2 or 3 weeks since the intl version?

Good job Samsung/Sprint!

 

[Oyeve]

Waits for tmobile version.

 

[Dari]

I've got to hand it to Samsung for being so quick. Others could learn from this...

 

[benzylic]

Awesome! Ordered the s3 last night for $75, be here tomorrow. Going from an optimus s with gingerbread to this will be glorious.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

do we need an OS update thread for every device out there? not to mention one per carrier too?

 

[bearxor]

Yes. And in two weeks there will be a brand new one with tmobile.

How else do you expect post counts to go up?

Do you think there should just be a JB update thread where the OP updates the first post and thread title everytime there's awesome new news? How is Bate supposed to hit 25k posts doing that?

GTFO with your logic man!!!

 

[grkM3]

do we need an OS update thread for every device out there? not to mention one per carrier too?

This is pretty big news as its the first official jellybean update in the USA other than the nexus

 

[Oyeve]

do we need an OS update thread for every device out there? not to mention one per carrier too?

Why not? Why do you care?

 

[abaez]

Where is 4.1.2?!!?!?!?

 

[Vdubchaos]

And what's the big deal about this again?

 

[Bateluer]

And what's the big deal about this again?

See post #8.

 

[Vdubchaos]

What does it offer over Ice Cream Sandwich? What are the differences?

 

[Phokus]

What does it offer over Ice Cream Sandwich? What are the differences?

Google now being the biggest difference. Also JB has project butter, but ICS on the SGS3 is already buttery smooth so i dunno if you'll notice a difference.

 

[PowerYoga]

I certainly noticed it. ICS is still a bit slow on certain things, but the difference isn't as big as say on the nexus.

 

[QueBert]

ICS is only buttery smooth when compared to previous versions of Android. I wish people would stop saying that. If a person used a WP device then use an ICS device, they'd realize what buttery smooth is.

 

[Roland00Address]

Is there anyway I can push the update to my device? I tried settings->system update->update firmware but that didn't work.

 

[Zaap]

If a person used a WP device then use an ICS device, they'd realize what buttery smooth is.

They'd also realize what backwards-ass-boring is.

Wow, so your text-and-flat color based 1990's-throwback OS is 'buttery smooth'. BFD.



Meanwhile, waiting for JB on Verizon SGS3....


... not holding my breath in the meantime.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

They'd also realize what backwards-ass-boring is.

Wow, so your text-and-flat color based 1990's-throwback OS is 'buttery smooth'. BFD.



Meanwhile, waiting for JB on Verizon SGS3....


... not holding my breath in the meantime.

Android is pretty boring unless you go all out and customize your screen. If you look at that homescreen thread on AT forums it's pretty butt ugly compared to the desktop threads on ATOT.

Anyway, who cares if WP is boring. Being buttery smooth is one of those basic things that Android should've gotten right from day 1. It shouldn't take 5 years. And I don't see butter as a full solution. It's an interim solution. The root cause of lagfest is the lack of GPU acceleration.

 

[cliftonite]

Android is pretty boring unless you go all out and customize your screen. If you look at that homescreen thread on AT forums it's pretty butt ugly compared to the desktop threads on ATOT.

Anyway, who cares if WP is boring. Being buttery smooth is one of those basic things that Android should've gotten right from day 1. It shouldn't take 5 years. And I don't see butter as a full solution. It's an interim solution. The root cause of lagfest is the lack of GPU acceleration.

I thought ICS had GPU acceleration? I have no lag on my ATT galaxy s2.

 

[PowerYoga]

I thought ICS had GPU acceleration? I have no lag on my ATT galaxy s2.

It does.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

I thought ICS had GPU acceleration? I have no lag on my ATT galaxy s2.

He has no idea what he is talking about. His talking points were debunked months ago

 

[Zaap]

Android is pretty boring unless you go all out and customize your screen.

That makes no sense. "It's boring, unless you do what it's designed to do straight out of the box." Whatever.

Also, most of the desktop thread is from 2011, and just about every shot still looks more interesting than the latest iOS and certainly WP '95.

Anyway, who cares if WP is boring.

And who cares if text and flat colors are 'buttery smooth'? No one, but WP's forty.. no wait is it up to fifty users yet?

And anyway, 'buttery smoothness' is just another one of those things that you and the usual Exaggeration Trolls tout up to be some major "feature" that supposedly trumps actual function, when it's never been that. It's a nice thing to have, but it's not the real user experience vs. function. Well, unless you're crazy that is, which some people clearly are.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

That makes no sense. "It's boring, unless you do what it's designed to do straight out of the box." Whatever.

Also, most of the desktop thread is from 2011, and just about every shot still looks more interesting than the latest iOS and certainly WP '95.


And who cares if text and flat colors are 'buttery smooth'? No one, but WP's forty.. no wait is it up to fifty users yet?

And anyway, 'buttery smoothness' is just another one of those things that you and the usual Exaggeration Trolls tout up to be some major "feature" that supposedly trumps actual function, when it's never been that. It's a nice thing to have, but it's not the real user experience vs. function. Well, unless you're crazy that is, which some people clearly are.

The thing is that, people say "windows phone is and iOS is BUTTERY SMOOTH" and yet, when you use it, there are still rough edges everywhere where the OS stutters. Sure when its doing nothing but moving 4x4 icons its smooth, but when you start doing more intensive stuff, it slows down and cracks form.

 

[MrX8503]

The thing is that, people say "windows phone is and iOS is BUTTERY SMOOTH" and yet, when you use it, there are still rough edges everywhere where the OS stutters. Sure when its doing nothing but moving 4x4 icons its smooth, but when you start doing more intensive stuff, it slows down and cracks form.

If iOS has cracks, Android has canyons. If its not on JB, then Android users are missing out on the benefits of project butter.