Sony announces 4.3 Jelly Bean will come to Xperia Z devices

Android version 4.3 Jelly Bean may have only been revealed by Google a day ago, but Sony isn’t wasting any time at all. The company has released a software roadmap for Xperia devices that will be taken into the 4.3 Jelly Bean fold.

Sony has confirmed that the latest version of Jelly Bean will be coming to the Xperia Z, Xperia ZL, Xperia ZR, Xperia SP and Xperia Z Ultra. For now, the only tablet that is confirmed to be getting Android version 4.3 Jelly Bean is Xperia Tablet Z.

Xperia devices to get Android version 4.3 Jelly Bean

The company is currently working on making Android version Jelly Bean 4.2 available for Xperia Z and Xperia ZL. Starting early August, Sony will be rolling out the update for the Xperia ZR and Xperia Tablet Z. The company has some more good news – Sony will be looking at pushing some of its other devices running Android version 4.1 Jelly Bean to version 4.3 directly.

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The smartphone manufacturer has admitted that the Jelly Bean 4.1 rollout for Xperia 2012 products had not been “as succinct or as timely” as the customers might have expected. Sony has written quite a lengthy, informative piece about how it tries to improve and refine its efforts to bring users new Android versions in a blog post.

The rollout of Android version 4.3 for Sony phones will depend on the carrier and market you are in, but the Japanese company says that it is keen on bringing the latest iteration of Android to customers as quickly as possible.