Whether you've got a Galaxy Nexus handset that you purchased directly from Google or one that you bought from AT&T, T-Mobile, or Sprint, you've likely been enjoying Android 4.2 for a while now—most of these phones got their first Android 4.2 update back in November when it was originally released. Even the Sprint versions got their update back in January.

If you bought your Galaxy Nexus from Verizon, however, your phone has been stuck on Android 4.1.1 since September (about three months after other Nexus devices received that update). This further cements Verizon's reputation as the slowest of the US carriers to test, approve, and distribute Android updates, even on phones that use prompt access to Android updates as one of their primary selling points. If you haven't yet lost patience with Verizon and flashed your phone with another ROM, Android Police has found a ZIP file containing the Verizon Galaxy Nexus' Android 4.2.2 update on Google's servers, implying that Verizon approval of the update (and subsequent over-the-air distribution) is imminent. Once it finally gets here, your phone will have all of the features of Android 4.2 along with the fixes and additions made in versions 4.2.1 and 4.2.2.

The ZIP file is an update package that can be applied to any Verizon Galaxy Nexus running version 4.1.1 of Android. The complex, multistep process for applying these update files can be found on the XDA Developers forum, among other places, but if you're not comfortable with them you should probably just wait for the update to come down over-the-air. Verizon has made no official announcement, but the existence of the update file suggests that it should arrive within the next few weeks.