ASUS has confirmed that the Transformer Pad TF300 will be the first tablet to be updated to Android Jelly Bean 4.2 starting today for US owners, with international variants following within the next few weeks, in a shift from its normal update patterns for Android updates.
While the TF300 is so far the only ASUS Android tablet to receive Jelly Bean 4.2, the rest of the current ASUS tablet line up will be updated to Android 4.2 in the Transformer Pad Infinity, the ASUS MeMO Pad Smart 10, and the MeMO Pad starting later in the second quarter of the year with no specific timeframe given for rollout.
The timely updates to the current generation of ASUS tablets to Jelly Bean follow its first generation of Honeycomb-based tablets, which were excluded from Ice Cream Sandwich updates, only to launch its second generation of tablets months later and being confirmed with Ice Cream Sandwich.
ASUS is also updating its App Locker, its virtual keyboard, the lock-screen and setup wizards for its tablet line with the Jelly Bean updates outside of the core Jelly Bean updates.
Thanks for passing on the news about the TF300.
TF101 — which I do believe was in their “first generation of Honeycomb-based tablets” — was not excluded from their ICS updates; it got ICS about a year ago.
What many TF101 owners would love to know is if ASUS will ever update it even to Jelly Bean 4.1.