The company also detailed some of the enhancements it will come with

Oct 17, 2012 21:01 GMT  ·  By

Today, South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung was rumored to plan making the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean OS upgrade available for its Galaxy S III devices in the United States only in 2013, and the company almost confirmed it.

In a press release, the handset vendor announced the upcoming availability of the update “in the coming months,” which means that October is clearly off the charts.

No specific date for the deployment has been provided, but it won’t come too much as a surprise if the company indeed makes the new OS flavor available only towards the end of the year, or at the beginning of the next.

In the US, the update will be provided to all devices on shelves at AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless and U.S. Cellular, and users will be able to download it both over-the-air and via the Samsung Kies update.

Galaxy S III owners will receive the Jelly Bean update as well as a host of new and enhanced TouchWiz features, making it a faster, richer and more responsive device experience. Samsung's best-selling flagship smartphone just got even better,” the company announced.

Some of the improvements packed in this update will include Camera Enhancements with the possibility to pause and resume while shooting videos, and low light photo mode, as well as Pop Up Play Update, Easy Mode, Blocking Mode and updated usability.

At the same time, the update will provide uses with enhancements that Google has included inside its Android 4.1 Jelly Bean platform, such as Google Now, Rich Notifications, and Automatic Widget Adjustment.

“In addition to the operating system update, Samsung and ESPN worked together to integrate AllShare technology into ESPN's popular ScoreCenter application,” Samsung explained.

“This means Galaxy S III owners will now be able to wirelessly push on-demand ESPN global sports coverage and highlights from the ESPN ScoreCenter app to their Samsung SMART TV.”

At the moment, Galaxy S III users in the US can only hope that the announced “coming months” for this OS upgrade’s delivery will actually turn out to be November or December, and not the first quarter of the next year.