Jelly Bean Archives - My ShanZhai

Acer releases MT6589 kernel source ahead of Liquid E2 launch 2

Apr

2013

Ever since Mediatek launched their quad-core MT6589 chipset I have been waiting for kernel sources to be released for this platform. As Mediatek themselves don’t seem to pay any attention to the GPL we needed to wait for their customers to open the source code. This time Acer was first to step out with a ...

TCL presents slim MT6577 Jelly Bean phones

Dec

2012

Slim phones is a clear trend for the coming year. As a bold statement that they are going this direction, TCL released no less than three new slim models. All three phones appear to be more or less on a diet. The thinnest (S820) is just 6.45mm thin. A common characteristic is that all models ...

A little Jelly Bean for everyone

Nov

2012

While the vast majority of phones does not yet have Jelly Bean installed it is not to difficult to get a little Jelly Bean feeling to your Gingerbread or Ice Cream Sandwich device. A first and easy measure is installing one of Google’s new Jelly Bean wallpapers from the gallery below. Also a backport of ...

No December – How Google stole Christmas

Nov

2012

As much as I am happy to immediately install all updates that Google provides for their Nexus devices was I shocked to hear about this nasty bug they built into the Android 4.2 release. In the middle of November, right before Christmas time did the contact app forget there has to be December between November ...

Jelly Bean 4.2 on Nexus 7 – what’s new

Nov

2012

While most of the Chinese phones still come with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Google started to roll out the next next version if their operating system. Nexus device owners can install the shiny Jelly Bean 4.2 update since November 13th. For those of you who are curious what the small 0.1 step means, here ...