best cool pics: Android 2.2 is now the dominant version of Google's OS with 61.3 percent of all active devices

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Android 2.2 is now the dominant version of Google's OS with 61.3 percent of all active devices

Considering that we're about nine months removed from Google's release of Froyo, you'd expect that version of its mobile OS to have been distributed quite widely by now and indeed it has. 61.3 percent of (the many) active Android devices -- handsets and tablets, anything with access to the Market is eligible -- worldwide are now running version 2.2, making it the most prevalent iteration of the software at the moment. Even more encouraging news is that, when taken together with Android 2.1, that group swells to account for more than 90 percent of active Google devices. If you want to look at the reverse, rather moldy, side of the coin, however, you'll note that the latest mobile version of the OS, Gingerbread (2.3), is only on 1 percent of devices, while the absolute finest Android, Honeycomb (3.0), barely scrapes a couple tenths of a percent together. So yes, things are moving inexorably forward, just not as rapidly as some might have hoped.

Android 2.2 is now the dominant version of Google's OS with 61.3 percent of all active devices originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 17 Mar 2011 05:46:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | source