HBO on your smartphone, on your TV. Nirvana!

HBO today updated both its HBO Go and Max Go apps to support a physical connection from your Android-powered smartphone to the big TV in your living room, via HDMI.

It’s been about ten days since the entertainment company updated it’s iOS app to allow for wireless AirPlay streaming. As the native streaming technology for Android is somewhat less mature than the iOS/AppleTV system, it makes sense that HBO would standardize on the physical connection via HDMI, rather than trying to find a comparable Android wireless streaming solution, and a wired connection will be ever so much more reliable, anyway.

You’ll still need to be a subscriber to get any use out of either of the HBO Go or Max Go apps, but if you are, head on over to the Google Play store and grab them, your smartphone, and an HDMI adapter, and watch great TV on an actual TV! Though, we guess you could do that right ON your TV, since you’re a subscriber.

It’s really about time.

With Nintendo’s Wii U and Microsoft’s Smart Glass initiatives, it’s not surprising that Sony would find their own second screen solution, this one via a PlayStation app, planned for both iOS and Android devices. The PlayStation App will allow gamers playing Sony’s newly announced PlayStation 4 gaming console to look at in-game maps, buy games from the PlayStation Store while on the go, or watch other gamers play on their own PS4s.

Tons of new changes detailed here.

Google’s VP of Android Product Management, Hugo Barra, tweeted today that his company has posted the updated Jelly Bean changelog, a list of all the new stuff in the Jelly Bean version of the Android operating system since 4.1, just in time for 4.2.2 to roll out.

Some of those changes include Google Now, Photo Sphere, Gesture Typing, and Project Butter, along with a host of other changes, like triple tapping in the center of the screen to magnify when Magnification gestures are enabled, improved Wi-Fi Direct support, a brand new photo editor with new filters, borders, and other tools, and a host of accessibility improvements as well.

This changelog is posted now, not too log after Android 4.2.2 started hitting Nexus devices, and includes some features like the long press on WiFi and Bluetooth icons in the Quick Settings to toggle the features on or off.

From the changelog

Android 4.2, Jelly Bean improves on the speed and simplicity of Android 4.1 and includes all new features – Photo Sphere and a completely redesigned camera app, new Gesture Typing keyboard, Google Now with all new cards, and much more.

• Everything in Jelly Bean feels fast, fluid, and smooth. Moving between home screens and switching between apps is effortless, like turning the pages of a book.
• Jelly Bean improves performance throughout the system, including faster orientation changes, quicker switching between recent apps, and smoother and more consistent rendering across the system through vsync and triple buffering.
• Jelly Bean has more reactive and uniform touch responses, and makes your Android device even more responsive by boosting your device’s CPU instantly when you touch the screen, and turns it down when you don’t need it to improve battery life.

For full details, head on over to the posted changelog.

Now with more computer!

Bump, the free, easy file sharing app for Android and iOS, has just updated to version 3.5.6 on both the Apple iTunes App Store and the Google Play Store. The new version of the app will let users share any files on their smartphone or tablet with a computer. Previously, Bump users were only able to share files from mobile device to mobile device.

Now, widgetized. See what we did there?

Hey, remember that Google Now thing that we mentioned earlier this morning? Well, it turns out that there’s gonna be a widget, too, as revealed in the support documentation for the new Nexus 4 and 10, as well as the Galaxy Nexus, Samsung’s entry in the series.