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HTC One, Droid DNA will get Android 4.3 Jelly Bean in U.S. and Canada

Alexandra Burlacu

Good news for HTC fans in the U.S. and Canada, as the company just confirmed that the HTC One and the Verizon Droid DNA will get Android 4.3 soon.

The U.S. and Canadian versions of the two handsets are set to get an update to the very latest version of Jelly Bean by the end of September.

HTC President Jason Mackenzie recently announced that the HTC One Developer Edition is skipping the Android 4.2 build and going straight to the Android 4.3 Jelly Bean instead.

As it turns out, the HTC One and the Droid DNA will receive the same treatment as the HTC One Developer Edition, getting the newest Android build.

"Lots of questions re 4.3 release for One. We r wrking hard (needs cert) to release 4.3 across all US, Canada skus by end Sept. DNA as well," Mackenzie announced on Twitter.

According to the executive, the Android 4.2 Jelly Bean build doesn't bring major improvements over the previous version, so the company has decided to boost the handsets' OS to Android 4.3 instead.

The U.S. and Canadian versions of the HTC One ship with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean out of the box, with only a few global versions getting an update to the newer Android 4.2.

The HTC Droid DNA sold by Verizon in the U.S. comes pre-loaded with the same Android 4.1 Jelly Bean software, which means that the next update to version 4.3 will mark a bigger jump.

Google recently launched its latest Jelly Bean flavor in the form of Android 4.3, but not many handsets got the latest software version so far. A few rumors indicated that the Samsung Galaxy S3, the Galaxy Note 2 and the Galaxy S4 will get the new Jelly Bean version soon as well, but Samsung has yet to confirm it.

Android 4.3 Jelly Bean is still not a very major software bump as the next Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie is expected to be, but it does bring several new features, enhancements and bug fixes. HTC One and Droid DNA owners in the U.S. and Canada will get to try out the new software soon enough, as Semtember is not that far away.

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