Google and Motorola promised that their new, $179-off-contract Moto G would be getting its KitKat update early in 2014, but it turns out that the wait will be even shorter. An announcement on the Motorola blog says that all US and global Moto Gs bought from Motorola or Amazon since launch will begin downloading Android 4.4.2 starting today.

The Moto G will be getting all of the software features introduced in KitKat, plus a handful of upgrades to Motorola's software. The camera app will have an improved touch-to-focus feature to help with focus and exposure settings, while the photo gallery is picking up some new image editing filters and other enhancements. The full release notes are here, though as we noted in our review, Motorola isn't making many changes to stock, Nexus-style Android on the Moto G.

As of this writing, our review unit hasn't downloaded the update just yet, but Google has been known to roll these things out in waves. If your phone doesn't have KitKat yet, it will soon. Motorola's Droid Ultra, Droid Maxx, and Droid Mini are all getting KitKat today as well.