LG announces Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update

Korean manufacturer LG has released a list of select devices that will receive Android v4.1 Jelly Bean upgrade in near future. According to the company, the Jelly Bean roll-out will begin next month. The first devices that will receive the latest Android version are the Optimus LTE II and Optimus G.

The Optimus LTE II is scheduled to get the update in November, while the Optimus G will receive the upgrade in December. The Optimus Vu and Vu II will be updated in the first quarter of the next year.

Interestingly, the LG list does not include the mention of its latest flagship smartphone, Optimus 4X HD, which launched in August this year. The list also does not feature LG's latest L series smartphones, which launched with Android v4.0 ICS straight out of the box.

The Jelly Bean upgrade is likely to bring in a host of improvements for the LG devices. The updates include improvement to the UI and browser, split-screen Q Slide feature and some app tweaks. As with nearly all updates, LG says that the Android 4.1 upgrades will be carried out sequentially, which means roll-out will begin from its home country (Korea) and expanding thereafter.

LG's Jelly Bean upgrade plans come amid rumours that the company is going to launch Nexus smartphone, which is expected to come with Jelly Bean on-board. According to rumours, the LG-branded Nexus will be launching on October 29.

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HTC launches Desire X for Rs. 19,799

HTC has officially announced the launch of its Desire X smartphone in India. Priced at Rs. 19,799 (MOP), the HTC Desire X runs on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system and is powered by a 1 GHz dual-core processor.

The HTC Desire X, recently spotted on various online retailers, features a 4.0-inch capacitive touch screen with 800 X 480 pixels resolution. HTC says the 5MP auto focus camera of the Desire X is powered by the company's proprietary ImageChip, and features a f/2.0, 28mm wide-angle lens, BSI sensor, HDR mode and automatic adjustable flash.

Other specifications of the Desire X include HTC Sense 4.0, built-in Beats Audio support, 4GB internal storage and a microSD card slot for additional storage up to 32GB. The device comes with a 1,650 mAh battery. HTC is offering 25GB of cloud storage from Dropbox free with the Desire X.

Moreover, the HTC Desire X supports 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0 with A2Dp and aptX audio and GPS. The HTC Desire X comes in Blue and White colours. Read the full specifications of the Desire X here.

“HTC Desire X is an extension of your social life. If you’re looking to enjoy and share high quality multimedia, wherever you are, this is the phone for you. It not only looks and sounds great, but also provides a super-fast, highly personal mobile experience at a great price,” says Faisal Siddqui, Country Manager, HTC India in a release.

HTC's Desire X will take on the Motorola Atrix 2, Sony Xperia Sola and other mid-range smartphones in the market.

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Now you can edit Comments in Facebook

We’ve all done it. Your friend uploads a picture of their new puppy to Facebook, and you somehow manage to leave a comment congratulating them instead on their “new pappy.”

So what do you do? Until now, the only thing Facebook would let you do to correct the error was delete the comment and start again.

But starting Thursday the site is also now offering the ability to edit your comment — and change that pappy back to the puppy you intended in the first place. The edit option appears in the form of a small pencil icon on the right side of your comment. Clicking on the pencil will bring up a drop-down menu the option to edit your comment as well as the option to delete it entirely.

Facebook told Mashable the site will also be “showing the editing history for a comment so that subsequent commenters or likers have the full context of the conversation.” That way if someone responds to a comment that gets edited commenters in the future can see the history of the conversation and not get lost.

The editing ability went live on Thursday evening, and will be gradually rolling out to all users over the next few days.

Has the comment editing system kicked in for you yet? Let us know in the comments.

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Google started Fights to Save around 3,054 Languages

Will you be any worse off the moment humans cease to speak in Aragonese? How about Navajo or Ojibwa? Or Koro, a language only just discovered in a tiny corner of northeast India?

No, you probably wouldn’t, not in that moment. But humanity would be. Science, art and culture would be. If, as the phrase goes, another language equals another soul, then some 3,054 souls — 50% of the world’s total languages — are set to die out by 2100.

If there is hope, it lies in the world’s centers of information — such as Google. The search giant’s philanthropic arm, Google.org, has launched the Endangered Language project, a website devoted to preserving those ancient tongues that are now only spoken by a few thousand of us.

The site, launched early Thursday, features videos and an interactive map. The curious can click on any one of the dots that hang over each country (including a suprising number in the US), each representing a whole language.

You can hear the heartbreaking, beautiful sound of Koro being sung, or read 18th century manuscripts written in a nearly-dead Native American tongue. “Documenting the 3,000+ languages that are on the verge of extinction is an important step in preserving cultural diversity,” write project managers Clara Rivera Rodriguez and Jason Rissman.

The idea is to unite a lot of smaller preservation efforts under the Google.org banner. “By bridging independent efforts from around the world we hope to make an important advancement in confronting language endangerment,” said Rodriguez and Rissman. “We hope you’ll join us.”

Check out the project’s video below, and let us know in the comments: how else can 21st century technology help save ancient language?

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