This news is something that won't please many Nexus S owners . Per reports, Android developer Google has revealed that its 2010 Nexus phone, the Samsung Nexus S, won't be upgraded to the latest Android 4.2 Jelly Bean.
The new information has arrived from Google's technical lead for the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), Jean-Baptiste Queru, who has revealed on Google Groups that Android 4.2 Jelly Bean will not be released for either the Nexus S or Motorola Xoom.
"There is no support for 4.2 on Nexus S and Xoom. Those devices should continue using 4.1.2," wrote Queru.
"This means, despite Google's promise that its Nexus devices will be the first to receive the latest Android updates, that the Nexus S will miss out on all the new features found in Android 4.2 Jelly Bean. This includes Google's new snazzy Photo Sphere panorama mode, Android's new screensaver mode Miracast and the reworked Swype-like keyboard," an Enquirer report stated.
The news will come as a disappointment to owners of these devices, but it isn't entirely surprising as both these devices are pretty old, and even ancient, as far as gadget years are concerned.
Still, according to a Tapscape report, "one can't help but wonder if Google decided not to support these devices because they can't handle the transition to Android 4.2 or if they just didn't see the effort in updating 2-year old machines. Whatever the case, it's undeniable that these two had a pretty good run. As a Google Nexus S owner myself, I was pretty amazed how I was first in line when it comes to updates while friends who owned more powerful non-Google-branded phones had to wait a while."
However, moving on to the other devices that are scheduled to get the latest Jelly Bean update, Queru has also provided information about the Jelly Bean updates relating to the status of three Google devices, the Nexus 10, Nexus 4 and Nexus 7 32 GB. He states that out of these three, Nexus 10 is "the best choice for AOSP work" which is because almost everything on it is open source.
"Nexus 10 is now the best choice for AOSP work on 4.2. Everything except the GPU code is Open Source, and the only proprietary binaries besides the GPU libraries are firmware files that get loaded into the various peripheral chips. No flagship device so far has been so open, and no flagship device so far has had that level of AOSP support at launch," added Queru.
