Now Google Nexus users can use their Android tablets horizontally.

Landscape mode is probably the most exciting feature of the new Google Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean operating system upgrade released today, a minor upgrade for Android 4.1.1.

Although the upgrade may be minor, Android Open Source Project technical lead Jean-Baptiste M. Queru encouraged all 4.1.1 Jelly Bean users to update as soon as possible.

"As a note to maintainers of community builds running on Nexus 7: please update to 4.1.2 at the first opportunity," he said. "Future variants of the grouper hardware will have a minor change in one of the components (the power management chip) that will not be compatible with 4.1.1."

Other pluses promised by Google include bug fixes and improved performance.  It takes up 31 megabytes.

The Android 4.1.2 update is said to be rolling out now to "pure Google devices such as the Nexus 7 tablet and unlocked Galaxy Nexus smartphones," reported Yahoo News.

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