14 DAY TRIAL // Google’s latest data on how the various flavors of Android are distributed on devices shows that Android 2.3 Gingerbread managed to secure more than half of them.
50.6 percent of all active Android devices out there run under the Gingerbread platform. Only 0.5 percent of all of devices are powered by Android 2.3 - Android 2.3.2 OS flavors, while 50.1 percent of them run under the Android 2.3.3 - Android 2.3.7 versions of the platform.
These numbers are based on data collected during the two weeks period ended on December 1st, and represent the devices that accessed the Android Market in the timeframe.
The graphs that Google made available to illustrate these percentages also show that other Android platforms, older ones, are losing ground in front of Gingerbread and another newer OS version, Android 3.x Honeycomb.
The latter is now present on 2.4 percent of devices, with Android 3.0 loaded on 0.1 percent of all active devices out there, Android 3.1 on 1.1 percent of them, and Android 3.2 on 1.2 percent of devices.
The Android 2.2 Froyo platform release is now loaded on 35.3 percent of all devices out there, down from the 40.7 percent is accounted for a month ago.
Android 2.1 Éclair lost market share as well, with only 9.6 percent of devices now running under it, one percentage point less than last month.
Android 1.5 Cupcake and Android 1.6 Donut went down furthermore, being loaded on 0.8 percent and 1.3 percent of devices, respectively.
Missing from the graph this month is Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, the latest flavor of Google’s mobile operating system, which was made available on Galaxy Nexus from Samsung about two weeks ago.
However, we can expect it to be present on the list starting with the next month, as the smartphone arrives in additional markets and more users out there purchase it.
Starting with the next year, Ice Cream Sandwich should be loaded on even more devices, as Google designed it to fit both smartphones and tablet PCs, so we can expect it to dominate the Android distribution chart in the next several months.
