Certain Galaxy S3 features will be incorporated into the device's predecessor.
Samsung has confirmed that its Galaxy S2 will receive the Android Jelly Bean 4.1 update. Although it failed to mention when the upgrade will become available for the device, it did reveal details on the forthcoming update, and both Google Now and Android Project Butter will be included.
Also on the way is built-in Google+ compatibility, Google Play Books and Google Play Movies. The update itself will take up to 1 GB of storage on the Galaxy S2 due to a new system partition.
Samsung also said several features introduced in the Galaxy S3 will make its way to the the S2. The Smart Stay feature, for one, prevents the screen from timing out when a user is viewing it. The Camera app, meanwhile, will allow users to pause recordings.
The smartphone will also receive the Pop-Up Play functionality, which delivers the ability to continue playing a video while emailing, texting, browsing the web, or performing other similar activities.
Verizon really is pretty terrible about updates, and Verizon + Motorola is the absolute worst in the industry. Lucky me, I have a Motorola Droid 3 on Verizon. Lo and behold, stuck on Android 2.3. Maybe this might begin to change now that Google owns Motorola, but I haven't seen any evidence of it yet.
The technical term for that is called "a flat battery".
I'm disappointed because I have to go onto Kies and update from there.
don't forget to take a backup so you can fool the RMA people if you physically break your device
Seeing as my S2 isn't even a year old yet, i'm happy to see it still getting support, even if only once in awhile.