Carriers have a bad habit of delaying updates to their Android handsets, making Android’s fragmentation all the worse – unlike iOS, where Apple pushes out an update to all iPhones regardless of carrier, OEMs themselves often issue carrier-specific updates to their Android phones, usually at an incredibly delayed pace when compared to the global unlocked models. Thus was the case with Verizon’s Galaxy Note II, which finally – after a seven month wait, has just received an update to Android 4.1.2 – which, may we remind you, is still behind the Android 4.2.2 that is currently the most recent version of Android found on many handsets.
Still, even an already-outdated update brings along some very worthwhile features aside an update to Android itself, including but not limited to (according to Verizon’s changelog):
- Download images via Enterprise Exchange email
- Download ring back tones through VZTones version 5.1.2 preloaded application
- Access downloaded languages on the Samsung keyboard
- Use Multi Window support for more applications (YouTube, Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon Kindle, Viewdini, Google Maps and Talk)
- Search or filter by Name in the dialer screen
- The snooze option in the Alarm Clock app is set to “ON” by default
- All Alarm Clock options are now viewable without the need to press the “more” button
- Added a Notification Panel editing menu under Display Settings
- Transfer content from your old device seamlessly with the Samsung Smart Switch application, now supported
All in all not a bad update, but if I were a Verizon Note II customer I’d still be annoyedly awaiting Android 4.2.
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