[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] cronot:
I'm a relatively new owner of an Xperia S phone. What I'm going to say is probably going to piss off some people, but looking at the discussion on the latest pages I had to chime in, so please don't take it personally, it's really just a rant - please try to take what I say in a constructive way.

I'm coming from a Samsung Galaxy S (yeah, the first one), and being used with it, acquainted with the community and having ocasionally contributed on development, I'm a bit frustrated at how messy the Xperia community is (to the point I almost regret having got the XS in the first place, despite the hardware being technically better than the SGS): there's a lot contradicting information, a lot of stuff is badly documented, and it seems there's a lot of dettachment of the devs working on FreeXperia with its users, almost to the point of disdain. Of course I know they aren't paid for their work and so they don't owe users anything, but being a little bit more communicative would at least make things a bit less messy around here and make the users happy(er), which would be better for everyone involved - them too, because like it or not, the users also have their role in making the project better, by testing, reporting problems and just providing feedback. Hell, they don't even need to do it here, they have their own site (freexperiaproject.com), just create a News section and post there from time to time. Technical information (for aspiring developers / contributors) are also lacking or unnecessarily hard to find, IMHO. I would be glad though if they could at least keep the "Supported Devices" section updated, namely the subpages that contains what works and what doesn't. As it is (for the XS/nozomi), it seems the data are related to CM9 only, because the ALS is certainly not working on CM10, the proximity sensor is a bit glitchy during calls (at least for me), there's no 1080p video recording, and panorama photos don't work correcly (at least for me).

With all that said, here's what I could gather / infer reading from various sources on the net (sorry, I don't remember them all to link them here - if you really need it, I may scour it later when I've got more time. And I won't be surprised if I erroneously guessed or inferred my second point - again, the communication on the FXP team / community would be at fault for that):

Sony is supposed to release an official Jellybean (4.1, not 4.2) firmware for the nozomi some time after April (which is kind of a wtf, because lower-end devices will get it first - between March and April - after the T and TX. So much for the nozomi being a flagship device... :P) - link.

My guess is that the FXP team is waiting for an official JB release from Sony so they can pickup the libraries for closed stuff and add proper support for things that are working badly or not working at all. I would infer from this that the FXP team can't really do much on CM10 for the nozomi because what limited hardware support it has was ported over from previous Android releases. The fact that Sony will release 4.1 Jellybean (as opposed to 4.2) shouldn't be a big problem for CM10.1 development, since there weren't a lot of changes from 4.1 to 4.2, as far as HAL is concerned.

So, (finally) replying to akkiannu: yes, I don't think an official update to 4.2 from Sony is gonna happen at all, if my first point is any indication. I will be glad though if Sony provides at least the 4.1 update on schedule, if at all - yes, I'm that cynic: having been an owner of a Motorola Milestone and then the SGS, I've been scorched before (specially with the Milestone), so I'm not too trusting of the manufacturers ability to keep their promises.