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Is Android 5.0 Jelly Bean coming this summer?

Google's upcoming Android update will be available in the summer, say sources.

Android 5.0 (or 4.5) 'Jelly Bean' will not target smartphones however, but will be be built with dual-boot functionality for Chrome OS tablets and netbooks.



More importantly, the OS would allow users to dual-boot Android on Windows 8 machines, including the ability to hot-swap without a reboot.

Users could use Android for better battery life, and switch to Windows for more robust features.

The OS is expected to hit in June.

Written by: Andre Yoskowitz @ 20 Feb 2012 1:35

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• jackalguy

  "Users could use Android for better battery life, and switch to Windows for more robust features."
  
  That made me drool a little...
  

  "The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one"
  
  -George Bernard Shaw

  20.2.2012 01:49 #1

• zimbowarrior

  Whats the use of releasing new os when only 1% of their devices have current ICS Software.
  
  google get yr priority right.
  

  life without gadgets is not worth living

  20.2.2012 05:10 #2

• cincyrob

  5.0??? heck i only have 2.3.5 i know some phones have 3.0 and tablet and such are lucky to get 4.0. they have alot of work to do to get to where they want to be with their OS. they need to work the glitches out of the current format before worrying about constantly putting out new updates and such.... just my opinion.
  

  20.2.2012 08:27 #3

• jpswain48 (unverified)

  Android 5.0 upgrade coming in June or so might cause me to hold off buying a new quad core phone unless I have some assurance that the device is up-gradable. I bought LGs G2x May, 2011. It is not up-gradable to 4.0. I dont want a dinosaur 6 months after I buy the latest and greatest device...only to discover im in a 2 yr contractual lock-down.

  20.2.2012 13:33 #4

• hearme0

  Loving the hybrid idea for tablets........though I don't own a tablet nor will I ever in the foreseeable future.

  20.2.2012 13:52 #5

• jhonackerman (unverified)

  Just released the news that android 5.0 Jelly belly will release on Q2-2012. We are hoping for the same. Let see what new

  Android App Developers

  will do?

  21.2.2012 04:32 #6