The Jelly Bean Update is rolling-out to more devices everyday, Manufactures in a race to release the update for their customers. Today, SONY has tweeted from its official twitter account to shed some light on the upcoming Jelly Bean updates for its XPERIA smartphone lineup.

.@vikimumbai Hey - s/w update is ICS firmware for Xperia U. Official update on Jelly Bean plans in mid-December at blogs.sonymobile.com ^KP

— Sony Xperia News (@SonyMobileNews) December 3, 2012

The company revealed that it will be announcing the detailed schedule in mid-December. which means the Updates may start rolling-out by early Next year.

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Sony is getting ready to hit the market with its upcoming phones that packs 5" Full HD resolution screens from the Xperia series, codenamed "Yuga" and "Odin". Well, it is actually the same device, just that the Yuga will be the Asian version, likely heading for Japan with its waterproof body, and the Odin will be the global International edition of the 5-incher.

Dimensions of the Sony C650X "Odin" are expected to be 131.6mm x 69.7mm x 9.8mm thick, and the weight only 5.04oz (147g).

The Asia-bound Sony C660X "Yuga" is said to be taller but thinner at 138.6mm x 71mm x 8.1mm, and weighs even less at 140g, despite its alleged waterproof body.

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Sony announced that it has taken the lead on the Android Open Source Project for its popular Xperia S smartphone. The exercise began back in August when Jean Baptiste Queru, Google's Technical Lead of the AOSP announced it.

The current progress on the Sony Xperia S has been demonstrated in a video, which appeared in the Sony developer's blog. you can watch the video below.

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Sony announced that it will launch its New Flagship smartphone Xperia V in Russia next month with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.

However,Sony France tweeted the Xperia V launch will be delayed by a month. Instead of hitting the shelves in time for the holiday season at the end of this year, the Xperia V will premiere in January.

[UPDATE PLANNING]Le Xperia™ V, initialement prévu en fin d'année sous ICS à 549€ sera disponible fin janvier 2013 sous JB à 529€.

— Sony Xperia FR (@SonyXperiaFR) November 6, 2012

The good news is the Xperia V will be running Jelly Bean out of the box and its suggested retail price is down to €529.

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Latest reports suggests that Sony will release a New flagship device, the device will be named Xperia Odin C650X. Today, we got the first render photo of the device, it has a design close to the Motorola RAZR.

The Xperia Odin C650X is rumored to feature a 5" screen with the impressive 1080p resolution, resulting in an mind-blowing density of 440 ppi, a quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro processor with four 1.5 GHz Krait cores, a 13 MP snapper on the back, 2 GB of RAM and 32 gigs of internal storage.

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