[March 27, 2013] Kobo Unveils Android Jelly Bean Upgrade for Kobo Arc Tablet Tweet Mar 27, 2013 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- Kobo, a provider of eReading, announced its Android 4.1 Jelly Bean firmware update for Kobo's 7" Google-certified Kobo Arc tablet. According to a release, this update optimizes the user experience with faster performance, improved search capabilities, increased touch responsiveness, and additional intelligence features to help organize and streamline information with actionable notifications. The update is now available to Kobo Arc customers when they next connect to Wi Fi. "Kobo Arc is the perfect tablet for people who love consuming books, movies, and surfing the web," said Wayne White, EVP of Devices, Kobo. "With the latest Jelly Bean update, Kobo Arc becomes the perfect eReading companion that offers more with intelligent search recommendations, voice-to-text, and a highly responsive touch screen." Android 4.1 Jelly Bean features and benefits include: Google Now: Google Now personalizes information based on a user's location, time of day, history, and calendar events. Google Now shows restaurants in the area, how much traffic to expect before the morning commute, when the next train is coming, the score of a current game, a flight status, and more. Richer notifications: Kobo Arc users will never miss a beat due to a richer notification experience. They can now receive action notifications directly within the notifications area as well as expand and collapse notifications to display more or less detail. Improved search: Finding online content has never been easier with text or voice searches, which are now presented in a visually rich way. Google Search can be opened directly from the locked screen by swiping up and users have the option to simply say "Google" to activate Voice Search within the Google Search screen. Optimized voice recognition and boosted predictive typing: To complement speech-enabled online searches, Jelly Bean introduces text-to-speech capabilities and an embedded speech recognizer that enables Voice Typing without an Internet connection. For those who prefer typing, an all-new keybard lets them glide over letters to type a word while it dynamically predicts text. More product information: www.kobo.com/koboarc ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]