Verizon surprises everyone by updating its Moto X to KitKat first

The worst carrier for Android updates turns the trend on its ear.

Of the big US carriers, Verizon is rarely the most punctual when it comes to Android updates. This is especially true for OEM phones from the likes of Samsung and HTC, but even the Verizon Galaxy Nexus is still waiting for its Android 4.3 update. That's why it was particularly surprising when Google and Motorola announced that the Verizon version of the Moto X would be receiving its Android 4.4 KitKat update beginning today, just a week after older Nexus phones and tablets began to get the new software.

While Motorola has been owned by Google for around two years now, its phones to date haven't really benefitted from being made by the same company that develops Android. Most Droids and other phones have continued to ship with slightly older versions of Android, and updates typically jump through the normal carrier approval hoops. It's impossible to say from this isolated example that Motorola's access to Android updates (or Verizon's approach to approving them) is changing, but it's an encouraging example at the very least.

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