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MOTOROLA ELECTRIFY™ 2 receives Android™ 4.1 Jelly Bean

March 15, 2013 : BY Motorola

We’re happy to announce today that the Android™ 4.1 Jelly Bean upgrade is rolling out to MOTOROLA ELECTRIFY™ 2 owners in phases. This upgrade offers many features to help organize and make your life easier, including expanded notifications, Voice Search and Google Now. Here are some of the features included in the upgrade:

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  • Expanded Notifications – So much to do and keep track of, so little time in the day. Now you can get reminders about meetings or appointments from your calendar, and you can either tap once to snooze them or even email participants to say you’re running late. Your Google Play Music controls show up in the notifications menu so you can pause, fast forward or go back to the beginning of your new favorite song. These and many other notifications help organize your mobile life all in one place.
  • Voice Search – Ask a question and get back the answer you’re looking for, ranging from “What is the weather today?, to “Where is the closest dry cleaner?” or even “When is Abraham Lincoln’s birthday?”. You’ll either get a spoken response back or search results that answer your query.
  • Google Now – We could all benefit from a personal assistant every now and then to keep track of our busy lives. With Google Now you get notifications generated automatically and in real-time even before you ask as it learns what you search for the most. Now your ELECTRIFY™ 2 can deliver sports scores, stock updates, weather reports, traffic updates, airline boarding passes, movie showtimes, and so much more, so you have all the information you want even before you’ve had your morning coffee.

Tagged as: android 4.1, electrify 2, expanded notifications, google now, jelly bean, motorola, software upgrade, voice search

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MOTOROLA ATRIX™ HD gets Android™ 4.1 Jelly Bean

December 15, 2012 : BY Motorola

The slimmer, stronger, smarter smartphone gets even better with an Android 4.1 Jelly Bean upgrade, now available.

Jelly Bean’s best features like Google Now, and improved notifications, will come through super sharp on your ColorBoost™ display—making your HD experience that much more brilliant. With just one swipe, Google Now gets you helpful info right away by using contextual data from your phone, and other Google services, to keep you one step ahead of your day. And Google Voice Search lets you speak your question and receive a spoken answer back for nearly hands-free searching.

Experience more of Jelly Bean’s sweet features that complement the detail and clarity of your HD display.

Check out this video comparing Voice Search on the MOTOROLA ATRIX HD to Siri on the Apple iPhone 5, both running on the AT&T 4G network.

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Tagged as: android 4.1, apple, ATRIX HD, att, iphone 5, jelly bean, motorola, siri, voice search

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Android™ 4.1 Jelly Bean is rolling out to DROID RAZR HD & DROID RAZR MAXX HD BY MOTOROLA

December 3, 2012 : BY Motorola

We’re pleased to announce that Android™ 4.1 Jelly Bean is rolling out to DROID RAZR HD by Motorola and DROID RAZR MAXX HD by Motorola owners. The new upgrade offers a host of fantastic features that personalize your phone to deliver an incredibly smooth experience. The current upgrade will be delivered to users on a rolling basis with the availability to manually update your device coming soon.

So what enhancements can you expect to the phones that deliver stunning HD resolution and incredible battery life? Check out the list below for a few of our favorites:

Google Now – Shouldn’t your phone be able to anticipate what you’ll need throughout your day? With Google Now, you get answers before you even have to ask. Real-time notifications let you know whether you should pack an umbrella for later in the day or if you need to grab the train to avoid the accident that’s backing up I-495. Plus, you’ll receive the score of your favorite team’s game from last night. Though Google Now can’t make your morning coffee, it will provide you the convenience you want to keep you one step ahead.

Voice Search – Want a voice-search experience that doesn’t only work in TV ads? Google Voice Search on Android™ 4.1 lets you speak your questions directly into your phone. Run a quick search that will give you everything from great Italian restaurants on the Lower East Side to the next train leaving from Clark and Lake. And if you want to test Google Voice Search’s foreign language skills, go ahead. It currently supports 34 languages from around the globe.

Richer Notifications – Its always good to see a missed call or new email notification, but wouldn’t you rather just take action? With Android™ 4.1, now you can. You just received a meeting reminder and know your call is running long. No problem, you can tap once to email the team that you’ll be there in a few minutes. Missed calls can be returned with a single tap, all right from the notification shade.

To learn more about Android™ 4.1, visit our Prepare and Learn site here for more details.

Tagged as: android 4.1, droid razr hd, droid razr maxx hd, google now, jelly bean, motorola, notifications, voice search

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Android™ 4.1 Jelly Bean and the future of Motorola software

November 9, 2012 : BY Punit Soni

UPDATE: Check out our new upgrade page featuring the latest news on Android software upgrades around the world at moto.ly/upgrade

At the new Motorola, we’re focused on making fewer, bigger bets that will redefine the mobile experience for our users.  And one of our top priorities is delivering great software upgrades. To that end, we’d like to share with you our latest developments:

DROID RAZR M BY MOTOROLA gets Android 4.1™ Jelly Bean

We’re excited to announce that DROID RAZR M is getting upgraded to Android™ 4.1 Jelly Bean. Starting today, the upgrade will be rolled out to users in phases. Jelly Bean includes a number of fantastic new and improved features, including Google Now, Voice Search, and improved notifications. Check out Motorola.com/jellybean to learn more.

Looking ahead: software upgrades will be available for preview

We know it’s important for many of you to get the latest Android software upgrades onto your phones as quickly as possible. With that in mind, we’re also introducing Test Drive, a new program that will allow consumers to take our major software upgrades for a trial run and provide valuable feedback before we launch the upgrade publicly.  Starting with Android 4.2, the next iteration of Jelly Bean, we will release a preview of our software to a few hundred consumers that sign up for Test Drive.  More details on how to sign-up and participate will be announced on the blog soon.

Going forward, we are going to focus our efforts so that we can deliver consistently high quality experiences to our users.  Unfortunately that means not all phones will be getting upgrades.  If you own a device that’s not getting upgraded, we’ve created the Motorola trade up program.  The trade up program gives you $100 back on a new Motorola smartphone when you trade-in your old one–so you don’t have to miss out on Jelly Bean.  For qualifying devices and more details, check out Motorola.com/tradeup.

Clearly, there’s a lot going on at Motorola, and we have no intention of slowing down any time soon. DROID RAZR M is only the first of many devices to get Jelly Bean (the full schedule is here).   We’re a new company with a new approach, and a big part of how we’ll do business going forward is to keep our customers in the loop.  You can always reach out to us on Google+ as well as our other social media channels with questions or feedback.

Punit Soni, Product Management, Software

Tagged as: android 4.1, droid razr m, google now, jelly bean, motorola, notifications, voice search

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