Android

I don't understand this Android system at all. My father has an LG android based phone through telus, which I recently upgraded from android 2,2 to 2.3 via the LG update software. I noticed android 4.0 is available, is it possible to upgrade to that from Android 2.3? Android strikes me as extremely complicated. Thanks.

Android is an operating system for phones which usually has to be tailored to the actual hardware by the producer of the phone. You cannot just upgrade to a version of Android that isn't supported by the manufacturer of your phone. LG must provide you with an update for your phone. It isn't up to Google (the developer of Android) to provide updates to your particular hardware. They just make the OS available to LG supposedly free-of-charge. In reality though, nothing about Android is free. Google makes a buck and Microsoft makes a large chunk from royalties.