Google recently dropped quite the candy bomb on HSPA+ Galaxy Nexus owners. It appears that Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) has already begun rolling out and will continue to hit HSPA+ Galaxy Nexus devices over the next week. Great news for everyone, better news for HSPA+ GNEX owners.

How many of you have heard of NFC? NFC is the latest short-range radio communications standard taking the mobile world by storm. In fact, if you have a new Android phone, there’s a good chance it has an NFC chip inside. NFC stands for Near Field Communication, and it’s a standard that allows devices to establish radio communication with each other when brought within close proximity of one another.

With all this talk of Jelly Bean lately, it’s easy to forget that most users are still waiting for Ice Cream Sandwich. Well, that wait is finally over for owners of the Samsung Galaxy Note as well as the Galaxy S II Skyrocket, according to AT&T. Ice Cream Sandwich is now available for both devices via Samsung’s Kies software and instructions for downloading include:

The developer community was excited yesterday when Google’s Jean-Baptiste Queru announced that Android 4.1 had been released in AOSP, but what exactly does that mean for us consumers? Well, for the majority of mobile consumers, not much — considering most of us are still waiting for Android 4.0. For those who purchase Nexus devices and/or root their devices: it means Jelly Bean is on the way.

When Google announced Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean), they showed off the new voice actions as well as search cards. Naturally, everyone soon became curious about how the new voice actions compared to its Apple competitor and voice assistant Siri. While most Androidians didn’t have a spare iPhone 4S on hand, one blogger for TechnoBuffalo did, and was kind enough to put them to the test.