Except it's not the latest unmodified Android - the Nexus S was top-of-the-line less than a year ago. Within six months, Google releases ICS, so you'd expect th

Except it's not the latest unmodified Android - the Nexus S was top-of-the-line less than a year ago. Within six months, Google releases ICS, so you'd expect that it would be updated promptly. ...and yet, five months later we still have no idea when Google will update the Nexus S to ICS. And unlike the carriers, they're the ones who developed the entire system, so it makes you wonder what devices they were using, and why it would be so hard to make sure ICS could run on the most recent publicly-available device. If it takes Google 5-6 months to update their own phone, then by the time the Galaxy Nexus is upgraded to Jelly Bean, it'll already be out-of-date anyway. So even if the Google Wallet mishap were a mistake, if having an unmodified-but-unupdated stock phone is the only difference, I'd rather just scan the market for the best available phone with an unlockable bootloader and install a custom ROM myself. No carrier bloatware, and then I actually get the updates before the updates themselves are made obsolete by the new version.