14 DAY TRIAL // Slowly but surely, Gingerbread is climbing to the first position on the Android platform distribution charts, at least this is what the latest data from Google shows.
The mobile operating system flavor was loaded on 31.3 percent of all Android devices that accessed the Android Market in the two weeks ending September 2nd, 2011.
0.6 percent of all Android devices were running under Android 2.3 - Android 2.3.2, while 30.7 percent were powered by Android 2.3.3 - Android 2.3.4.
Clearly, Gingerbread is set to become the leading flavor on the Android distribution charts, yet it still has a lot of work to do before that.
Android 2.2 Froyo is currently the top OS flavor there, and has been so for many months.
At the moment, the OS version accounts for 51.2 percent of the active Android devices out there, but there was a time when it was loaded on about two thirds of all of these devices.
Of course, Android 2.3 Gingerbread and Android 3.0 Honeycomb came along since then, but it seems that they are actually having a hard time taking the crown down from Froyo's head.
The Honeycomb flavor of Google's mobile operating system, the platform release aimed at tablet PCs, was loaded only on 1.4 percent of all Android devices out there, which is very little, considering that the first tablets running under it landed on shelves in Q1 this year.
The Android 3.0 OS was loaded on 0.2 percent of active devices in the said two weeks period, Android 3.1 was loaded on 0.7 percent of them, while Android 3.2 was loaded on no less that 0.5 percent of devices.
Older Android flavors are but one step away from becoming obsolete, with Android 1.5 and Android 1.6 currently loaded on only 1.0 percent and 1.8 percent of all active Android devices, respectively.
Android 2.1 Eclair is now present on 13.3 percent of these devices, but it slowly losing market share, and will soon disappear from the charts as well.
Unless, of course, more makers consider loading it on their new, specialized but very affordable tablet PCs, as Amazon was said only recently to plan on doing with its Kindle Tablet.
