I don't think you're ready for this Jelly

Google's prolific OS is far from perfect with one of the main criticisms aimed at the fragmentation between devices. For instance my sister's Desire Z is still running Froyo whilst my colleague’s Galaxy Nexus is of course running it's latest variant, Ice Cream Sandwich. Now I was under the impression that Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 was released in order to attempt to resolve this problem through unifying both phone and tablet OS' and providing a much more consistent user experience.

However news has since cropped up suggesting that Google plan to release yet another major update in Android 5.0 Jelly Bean, supposedly scheduled to arrive in the second quarter of 2012 and said to incorporate dual operating system functionality in which a tablet would be capable of both Android 5.0 and Windows 8 with the option of switching between the two OS' without shutting the device down.

Now I will say that this report is highly speculative and it seems to base it's entire assessment on the idea that Ice Cram Sandwich 4.0 has underperformed (a fact I find hard to determine considering it's infancy and limited rollout) yet the fact remains that if Google were to really release Jelly Bean 5.0 in Q2 of 2012 it would only succeed in further increasing the gulf between it's high-end and mid-range devices and highlighting Android's scattered fragmentation.