Samsung Galaxy Note 2 To Get Android 5.0 Update, Note Will Have to Settle Down With 4.2.2

Its good that Samsung is giving Android updates to most of its smartphones and many of the phones will get update of android 5.0. but some of them will end getting update and will get the last update of Android 4.2.2. Below is the list of Smartphones getting 4.2.2 Update and 5.0.

End at Android 4.2.2 update.

GT-I9080 – Galaxy Grand
GT-I9082 – Galaxy Grand DUOS
GT-I8160 – Galaxy Ace 2
GT-I8190 – Galaxy S III mini
GT-I8350 – Galaxy Beam
GT-I8730 – Galaxy Express
GT-I9070 – Galaxy S Advance
GT-I9100 – Galaxy S II
GT-I9105 – Galaxy S II Plus
GT-I9260 – Galaxy Premier
GT-N7000 – Galaxy Note
GT-S6310 – Galaxy Young
GT-S6312 – Galaxy Young DUOS
GT-S6810 – Galaxy Fame
GT-S7710 – Galaxy X Cover 2

To get Android 5.0.

GT-I9300 – Galaxy S III
GT-I9305 – Galaxy S III LTE
GT-I9500 – Galaxy S 4
GT-I9505 – Galaxy S 4 LTE
GT-N5100 – Galaxy Note 8.0
GT-N5105 – Galaxy Note 8.0 LTE
GT-N5110 – Galaxy Note 8.0 Wi-Fi
GT-N7100 – Galaxy Note II
GT-N7105 – Galaxy Note II LTE
GT-N8000 – Galaxy Note 10.1
GT-N8005 – Galaxy Note 10.1 LTE
GT-N8010 – Galaxy Note 10.1 Wi-Fi

Photoshop Touch Now Available For Android And iOS Devices

After a long wait, photoshop touch has made its way to iOS and Android phones. The Photoshop touch was only available in tablets before but now it is available for Android and iOS now at the price of Rs. 270.

The Photoshop touch has all the functionality which were in tablet and now fit in a smaller size.One of the unique features of Photoshop Touch is the Camera-Fill feature, which allows users to to fill in the camera feed on their smartphone with various layers.

The minimum system requirements on the iOS are that you need an iPhone 4S or higher. If you are running the Android system, you need to have a phone which runs on Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich or higher.The photoshop touch comes along with Creative Cloud support which offers you 2GB of cloud storage.

Press release

Photoshop Touch is now available in a version specifically built for phones! Following up on the very popular tablet version, Photoshop Touch for phone is available on the Apple App Store and Google Play for US $4.99.

This app shares an almost identical set of features with the tablet app, in an experience designed for smaller screens. I am particularly excited about this new app because I always have my phone with me. I can be creative anywhere using the powerful tools in Photoshop Touch, even when I don’t have my tablet with me.

Much like the tablet version, Photoshop Touch on the phone has core Photoshop features like layers, advanced selections tools, adjustments and filters. We also packed in features exclusive to Photoshop Touch, like Scribble Selection for high-precision selections using only your finger, and Camera Fill for real-time creative blending of your camera feed with layers. This app features the same creative filters as the tablet version, like Color Drops and Acrylic Paint, and also a new Ripple filter.

With Photoshop Touch and the Adobe Creative Cloud, I can start a project on my phone, continue it on my tablet, and polish it off at my desk in Photoshop CS6. Photoshop Touch will automatically keep my projects in sync on each device, at the full resolution and with all the layers intact. This capability is available to every customer with a free Creative Cloud account. There is no paid subscription requirement for syncing.

--Vedang Parmar

Android Jellybean Starts Rolling Out In The Galaxy Note

Samsung has started rolling out the latest android system (jelly bean), to the users of the Galaxy Note. This news was confirmed by its official blog. They said, “The Galaxy Note is Samsung’s first Phablet device and has a very large user base that’s why Samsung keeps on updating this device with all the new Android versions as they want to provide the Galaxy Note users with their best support experience.”

So, now the Galaxy Note will be on par with its successor Galaxy Note 2 as Some of the Enhancements in the new Jelly Bean Update include Multi-View (Multi Windows Multitasking, like in the Note II), a customisable notification Panel, smart rotation, as well as new Widgets From the Galaxy S III.

--Vedang Parmar

Android 2.2.2 Might Be Launched In Mid-February

Android 4.2.2, the latest version of Google's mobile operating system, may not be too far away if rumours are to be believed.  According to a report by International Business Times, Google employees are secretly working on the update and Android 4.2.2 is scheduled to be pushed out by mid-February.

 iDigitalTimes reported last week that the 4.2.2 update was being tested and would bring several bug fixes. The update reportedly contains simple enhancements to the OS, but there has been no information about it from Google's end.

International Business Times cited anonymous sources within the company stating that Google employees with Nexus devices, including the Nexus 4, Nexus 7, and the Nexus 10, have had an opportunity to test out version 4.2.2, but they haven’t found a major change as far as the user experience is concerned.

A report last month claimed that this new update will be released by Google in a handful of countries, including Malaysia and Brazil. Android 4.2.2 was reportedly spotted running on Nexus 4s in these countries and this update was to hit the rest of the world by the end of January, but that plan seems to have been pushed forwards by 15 days or so.

Google first announced Android 4.2 back in November. The new version is still named Jelly Bean and has some new features. The new version made its debut with the latest device from Google's smartphone stable, the Nexus 4. The camera app of Android 4.2 has a feature called Photo Sphere, which enables users to take high resolution, 360-degree photographs on all axes, giving pictures a look much like Google Street View. It allows you to instantly share the photograph on whatever medium you desire, including Google Maps if you want to make the picture public.

The new keyboard on Android 4.2 supports gesture-typing. It allows you to type out words by sliding your finger across the keyboard over letters that are part of the word. This is a lot like the Swype keyboard by Nuance, which is commonly found pre-installed on Samsung devices.

Another big feature in Android 4.2 is the ability to have multiple profiles for tablets. This allows users to share their tablets without the fear of having their privacy compromised due to another person using the same device. Users can have a separate profile with different accounts, settings and apps for different members of the family.

Android 4.2.2 only seems like a slight bump to the existing version of Jelly Bean. Preliminary reports suggest that it will quite likely bring along fixes for several bugs that have been niggling at users for a while now, especially the Bluetooth streaming issue in Nexus 7 devices.

News of this forthcoming version of Jelly Bean comes not long after Google updated the Android version share page. According to the data, Jelly Bean–both versions 4.1 and 4.2–has grown by 3.2 per cent since last month. This new update will probably see more Jelly Bean devices being activated, giving a firm foothold to Jelly Bean before the next version of Android is released.

You Will Be Able To Run Windows Apps On Android Soon!

Wine, a popular software that lets users run Windows apps on Linux and other Unix-like operating systems, will release a version for Android that will let users accomplish the same.

Alexandre Julliard, the original developer of Wine for Linux, confirmed that Wine for Google's Android platform was being worked upon and briefly demoed a very early version of the same. According to reports, the performance was "horrendously slow", but that was expected given that the Android environment itself was emulated on a Mac, instead of using a live Android device.

A progress report was also provided on Wine for ARM devices, a project that will help ARM devices run applications designed to run on x86 platforms. Given the rise of ARM devices, there is a lot of interest in the project, and the work is said to be in significantly more advanced stage than Wine for Android.

Wine originally released way back in 1993 and is one of the most popular programs on the platform. According to Wikipedia, in a 2007 survey by desktoplinux.com of 38,500 Linux desktop users, 31.5% of respondents reported using Wine to run Windows applications. This number was larger than all other x86 virtualization programs combined, as well as larger than the 27.9% who reported not running Windows applications.

Wine, though an open source project, has benefited from sponsorship from CodeWeavers, the company that has hired Julliard and other wine developers to work on CrossOver, CodeWeavers' supported version of Wine. CrossOver offers some additional features not found in Wine.

Wine has also benefited from sponsorship from Google, which has paid CodeWeavers in the past to have some bugs fixed so Picasa runs fine on Linux. Wine has also been multiple-time beneficiary of Google's Summer of Code program, that rewards students with stipends to work on open-source projects.

Google Nexus 4 Gets Android 4.2.2 in Brazil and Malaysia India not lucky yet

While most of the world is seeing Android 4.2.1 as the latest version of Jelly Bean, it looks like Google has quietly begun rolling out something a bit newer. According to new reports, Google has begun rolling out Android 4.2.2 in select countries. So far the reports are pinpointing just two countries — Brazil and Malaysia.

According to a recent report, LG Mobile’s production facility situated in Taubaté, Brazil has already started churning out Nexus 4 smartphones today in hopes of catching up with the overwhelming demands, an interesting twist to this story is that at least a thousand of these quad-core packing monsters have — purportedly — been loaded with Google’s latest version of the Android Jelly Bean platform so don’t be surprised if the Nexus 4 you have ordered via the Play Store portal  will come running the Android 4.2.2 operating system.

Also, a new leak reveals the LG Nexus 4 in Malaysia running the new, unannounced software from Google.

True or not, we suggest taking this news with a grain of salt since it’s still unknown if the leaked image is legitimate — but, like we’ve previously mentioned, the fact that Google has stopped letting users download the Android 4.1.2 may give us a vague  clue as to what Google is really hiding up its sleeves and the Android 4.2.2 may just be the answer we’ve been waiting for.