{"id":43585,"date":"2012-02-17T10:09:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T08:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=43585"},"modified":"2012-02-17T10:10:49","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T08:10:49","slug":"android-5-0-jelly-bean-on-the-horizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/43585-android-5-0-jelly-bean-on-the-horizon.html","title":{"rendered":"Android 5.0 \u201cJelly Bean\u201d on the horizon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIce Cream Sandwich\u201d is still relatively new to the mobile smartphone market, and currently finds itself installed on just 1 percent of <a title=\"Android Mobile Oerating System\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/221979-Google-Android\">Android<\/a> devices. This hasn\u2019t deterred <a title=\"Google\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/314567-Google\">Google<\/a> from planning to release the next major build of the mobile operating system as early as Q2 2012 according to a report by<em> Digitimes<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Citing \u201cunnamed sources within Taiwan-based component suppliers\u201d, Digitimes suggest that Android 5.0 \u201cJelly Bean\u201d will be a tablet-focused OS similar to Android Honeycomb 3.0.<\/p>\n<p>Jelly Bean is expected to feature a dual boot function similar to <a title=\"Microsoft\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/211580-Microsoft\">Microsoft\u2019s<\/a> upcoming Windows 8.<\/p>\n<p>Google is also considering Android 5.0 for notebooks and netbooks according to the report. This may be due to the slow adoption of the search giant\u2019s Chrome OS for netbooks.<\/p>\n<p>If the report is accurate, Google will launch the next version of its Android operating system a full quarter before large manufacturers have fully rolled out Android 4.0 on all of their devices.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at: <a title=\"Boy Genius Report news site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2012\/02\/16\/android-5-0-jelly-bean-could-push-fragmentation-to-new-heights\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boy Genius Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google may launch the next version of Android before Ice Cream Sandwich is widely adopted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":42213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[397,8955,167,7811,123],"class_list":["post-43585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-android","tag-android-jelly-bean","tag-google","tag-ice-cream-sandwich","tag-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43589,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43585\/revisions\/43589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}