Like many, I've been waiting for an upgrade to Jelly Bean ever since HTC first promised it back in July.

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She decided that the big marketing budget would go, and that she'd reduce the brand back to her original idea: single bean virgin chocolate.

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Ms. McDonald, originally from Australia and now living in Frankfurt, started Blyss Chocolate because she wanted to bring back the pure flavor of the cocoa bean, without any additives or sugar.

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As his wife shopped, two boys in the back seat strained to see a popular Japanese cartoon show about a bean-paste-filled superhero on the 6-inch-wide screen.

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After the daily dawn-to-dusk fast, comes the feast, and even the most career-minded single women are dragooned back into the kitchen to help prepare the time-consuming harira bean soup and the traditional pancakes and sweets: melaoui, baghira, chebbakia, sfouf.

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Now we're back for part deux, starring Tegra and a healthy dose of Jelly Bean.

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Every schoolchild in Silicon Valley knows the sad story of how nice Steve Jobs helped to found Apple Computer, only for the evil bean-counters to evict him nine years later (now, of course, he's back).

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We poked around a few of Samsung's prototypes at IFA in Berlin, and while the camera had no shortage of bugs, one thing was quite clear: Jelly Bean is delicious on any 4.8-inch HD touchscreen, even one mounted to the back of a 16-megapixel superzoom.

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Google will now give full-sized image back-ups when uploaded (up to 5GB are yours for free), while any Android Jelly Bean users will be able to share their photospheres directly from the phone app.

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