With the ink still drying on Google's announcement of Android 4.1 today, we've received word from a trusted source that Samsung made a late adjustment to the Galaxy S III's specs (in some markets, anyway) to accommodate whatever it was that Jelly Bean would demand. We're told that Samsung was intent on designing the phone to be "future-proof" — it didn't want to be left flat-footed in the wake of a new Android version announcement spaced just days apart from the Galaxy S III's US launches, presumably. The problem was that company's engineers weren't "100 percent sure" of Jelly Bean's final hardware requirements, so they upped the internal RAM to 2GB to hedge their bets.
Galaxy S III variants got last-minute RAM upgrade ‘to be future-proof’ for Jelly Bean
Our source isn’t aware of Samsung’s specific plans for upgrading any version of the Galaxy S III to Jelly Bean yet, but by all appearances, the hardware is more than ready to accept it (let’s not forget that the nearly two-year-old Nexus S is already signed up for an update).
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