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In the same way that watched pots never boil, hotly anticipated Android versions often aren't released when we think they should be. However, turn your back for a second and bang - suddenly Jelly Bean 4.3's all over the Internet.
It was a somewhat odd way for the new software to make its debut - leaking quietly onto Google+ via a guy named Jeff Williams, who apparently bought a Nexus 4 running Android 4.3 on Craigslist from a Googler. (The comments on the post are worth a read.)
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Android Police has further details on Jeff's odyssey, which carried him from Google+ into an IRC chatroom on Freenode, where eager Android geeks talked him through the process of doing a system dump so that the software could be examined and passed around the Internet.
While Android 4.3 isn't all that exciting in and of itself - Android Central says that most of the changes are on the back end - it's nevertheless a pretty significant leak.
And it's even more significant, besides, since...