Over 61 Percent of Android Devices Flaunt Froyo
Over 61 Percent of Android Devices Flaunt Froyo
Posted 03/17/2011 at 7:45am
| by Paul Lilly
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In an encouraging sign for Google's Android platform, new statistics reveal that the vast majority -- over 90 percent -- of Android devices accessing the Android Market are rocking version 2.1 of the open source OS or later. Of those, Android 2.2 (Froyo) sits on top with a dominant 61.3 percent share, compared to 29 percent of Android devices running 2.1, and under 8 percent kicking it old school with version 1.5 or 1.6.
The market share figures represent data collected by Android Developers during two weeks ending on March 15, 2011. It takes into account all Android devices, including both handsets and tablets, and presumably hacked devices running modded versions of Android, so long as they've connected to the Android Market.
Gingerbread (Android 2.3 and 2.3.3), which shipped with the Nexus S, accounts for a 1.7 percent share, while Honeycomb (Android 3.0) was only able to carve out a 0.2 percent share in the past two weeks. That will change as Motorola's Xoom lands in more hands and other Honeycomb tablets get released.
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smithguitars
March 18, 2011 at 9:04am
Rocking, really? Rocking. Rock, rock, Rock.
Main Entry: rock Part of Speech: verb Definition: move back and forth Synonyms: agitate, billow, careen, concuss, convulse, falter, heave, jiggle, jog, jolt, jounce, lurch, move, oscillate, pitch, push and pull, quake, quaver, quiver, reel, roll, roll about, shake, shock, stagger, sway, swing, toss, totter, tremble, undulate, vibrate, wobble Thesaurus.com...
aarcane
March 18, 2011 at 12:08am
I wonder if these analysts realize the obvious.. People who've been running their androids without getting an update since 1.5 or 1.6 just aren't going to use the market as much, because THEY ALREADYA HAVE THEIR APPS. What this survey REALLY says is that "most of the recently deployed android devices are running 2.2 or 2.3, and some people who have had an android for a while are still updating or buying apps occasionally"
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