I truly don't understand this problem.
Example: Mary just got Jelly Bean (the latest OS) pushed out to her Verizon Motorola Razor M.
Meanwhile, I'm still stuck with Ice Cream Sandwich on my Verizon Samsung Galaxy S3.
Now there's nothing wrong with the Razor, but the S3 is far more sophisticated -- yet Verizon chose to push the latest OS to the inferior phone first. WTF?
There just doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to the way these updates are done, especially when you get a cellular carrier in the mix. This yet another reason to love the Nexus 7. It's pure Google, which means no effing around with Verizon, or anyone else, to get updates.
Sent from my Nexus 7
I have a the earlier Razr (not the Maxx). It is still on ICS - no update yet - but that works fine. In any number of ways, I
prefer it to the Google (by Samsung) Galaxy Nexus. In fact, with JB (and the latest update) on the Samsung, I find myself using the Razr much more than the Nexus. Part of that is the better network (and the fact that the Razr will work both domestically and internationally on the CDMA/LTE networks here and GSM/HSDPA systems abroad), and part of it is that Google's changes to the UI on JB simply made it a bit more difficult to use (and now collects more data from the user, stuff I can still turn off on VZ/Razr).
I absolutely, spitefully HATE the email program on the Galaxy Nexus under JB - at least with the VZ Razr you can do a "select all" to clean out your deleted items.... can't do that with the stock Google phone, you have to painfully select each deleted item, one by one, to empty the deleted-item mailbox.
Okay, the 4.2 Jelly Bean update is officially crap. It's all over the Android blogosphere that many people are having problems with it.
I didn't have a lot of "problems" with 4.2 on the Nexus phone, but the update installed today, other than the UI and some of the settings were worse than ICS. They did change the menus and the way some stuff worked - radically - from the prior version, but once you figured it out, it generally worked.
That said, I've also had issues with the iOS 6.0 update on the work phone. 6.0.1 is out to fix some of the problems that 6.0 intorduced. The changes, though, from 5 to 6 on iOS were less radical (except for the maps app, which sux....)
