Will JellyBean Update This Year be 4.1 or 4.2?

[zadillo]

So, question. I'm currently seriously considering buying a RAZR MAXX HD (current phone is a Samsung Droid Charge with terrible battery life).

I've heard that Motorola has promised an update to Jelly Bean this year, which is good news.

My question though is, will that update be to Android 4.1, or to the just announced Android 4.2?

 

[polysaturate]

I have no inside information what-so-ever, but my thoughts are this:

I think we'll see JB by Turkey day, as we have already seen a pretty stable leak for the M. Which, in most ways is nearly identical to the software on the RAZRs. Also, S3's are going to start seeing theirs roll in(Sprint happened already) and I wouldn't be surprised if Moto is using that as some sort of competition.

Now, the JB we see, will be 4.1. However, with the few incremental changes in 4.2, I think we could see that a month or two after we see 4.1. Plus, the fact that a few of the updates, are actually within updatable apps. Such as the GoogleNow upgrades are available to anyone on JB.

 

[zadillo]

Cool, thanks. I guess with 4.2 I'd be looking forward to some of the updates (the updated Gmail with flowing text and pinch to zoom, the lockscreen improvements, the notifications improvements), and it would be kind of a bummer if that update was farther out.

I'm still a bit nervous (basically, being a Droid Charge owner and seeing Samsung abandon that phone so quickly has made me paranoid), but feels like the RAZR MAXX HD should be a pretty safe bet.