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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 02, 2013
The collection method has changed, but the results surprise nobody -- new versions climb while legacy versions fall
Every month Google releases a handy chart telling us what version of the opera...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 13, 2013
While announcing that Andy Rubin was leaving the Google Android team, Google CEO Larry Page also dropped another big bombshell -- there are now over 750,000,000 installs of Android devices.
Andr...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 04, 2013
Despite the launch of major new devices like the Droid DNA, One X+ and Windows Phone 8X, HTC's revenues and profits fell once again in the final quarter of 2012. Today the company reported fourt...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 23, 2013
Google has captured five of the top six spots in the mobile app space, and it isn't likely that they will be slowing down any time soon. That chart you see above is the number of unique (as in y...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 18, 2012
There's a new report out today from informa, and it's about Android adoption rate and market share in China. We all know that Android has the lions share of the Chinese market, but now we ha...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 03, 2012
Jelly Bean's install base got a huge boost in the past 30 days, but it still only powers less than 7-percent of all Android devices. Today's version number release from Google sees Jelly Bea...
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by Alex Dobie
Oct 26, 2012
HTC has announced its consolidated third-quarter financial results, revealing yet more disappointing numbers after a year of financial woe for the Taiwanese company.
From July to September, the com...
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by Andrew Martonik
Oct 01, 2012
As it tends to do, Google has released a breakdown of what versions of Android devices out in the wild are currently running as of today, October 1. We're now over the milestone of having one in...
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by Alex Dobie
Aug 03, 2012
HTC reported its audited second quarter earnings today, releasing figures in line with the earlier unaudited results reported last month. From March to June, the smartphone maker generated revenues ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 01, 2012
Another month is upon us (again already?), and that means it's time for another breakdown of Android versions. This is the monthly look at the percentage of the various Android versions that are...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 19, 2012
Verizon today announced its second-quarter 2012 earnings. As expected, the carrier sold a lot of phones. No, really. A lot of Android phones. And a lot of iPhones.
On the wireless side, which is th...
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by Anndrew Vacca
Jul 13, 2012
Nielsen released its mobile subscriber data for Q2 2012 today, and it shows a tight race between Samsung and HTC for the title of top Android manufacturer. Among total Android users, 17 percent own ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 02, 2012
Google has released the latest platform version numbers tonight, and things are as expected -- still slowly trending up. Before we go any further, we have to note that Jelly Bean (Android 4.1) is no...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 02, 2012
It's not all doom and gloom in the Android world. Comscore just released its findings for the three months ending in May, and they are as follows:
Samsung's is the top overall mobile...
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by Chris Umiastowski
May 17, 2012
Industry research firm Gartner just released its latest data on mobile phone sales for the first quarter of 2012. There are some interesting points to be pulled out of this report that I wante...
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by Alex Dobie
Apr 06, 2012
HTC may be riding a wave of good publicity following the launch of the One X and One S, but things aren't looking quite so rosy on the financial side. The Taiwanese manufacturer released its una...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 06, 2012
Google's just released the Android platform version statistics for the two weeks ending March 5. As a reminder, these are representative of the entire Android ecosystem and comprise devices that...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 29, 2011
Analytics firm ComScore just released a new batch of numbers, showing Android extending its lead over, well, everybody in the United States for September through November of 2011.
Out of the 91.4 m...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 24, 2011
Android has grown to capture 27 percent of the tablet market, that just one year ago was 100 percent filled by Apple. With the launch of the original Galaxy Tab things have been on a slow uphi...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 15, 2011
Dear, Molly Wood. How's it going? Couldn't help but notice your latest rant about Android. (We've had a few ourselves.) And while we, being the biggest and best Android community, well, ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 04, 2011
Google has released the latest breakdown of the platform version numbers, and they show Gingerbread growing in a big way. These numbers are a snapshot of the phones and tablets that have visit...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 27, 2011
As expected, the Android train keeps steamrolling along. Nielsen's numbers for smartphone platform purchases in the past 90 days show users picking Android 56 percent of the time, which is...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 02, 2011
Google has just released the latest set of Android version numbers, and the overall trend of legacy version numbers dropping continues. There's no drastic changes, but a quick look at the chart ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 02, 2011
Google has released the numbers for the different platform versions accessing the Android Market ending Aug. 1, and there are no big surprises. Froyo still leads the pack with over 55 percent of devi...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 01, 2011
Gameloft has announced that through the first half of 2011, they have hit €76.8 Million (about 110 million USD) in sales, which is up 15 percent from last year. Smartphone and tablet sales ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 17, 2011
The CyanogenMod user install base has hit the 500,000 mark, according to the stats released by the CM team. This is across all devices, and includes unofficial versions in the numbers. Som...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 05, 2011
Comscore has released their numbers for the period ending May 2011, and it's no surprise that Samsung and Android still lead the pack. According to Comscore, smartphone adoption in the US has cl...
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by Andrew Melnizek
May 10, 2011
We're live at Google's I/O Keynote 2011 and Google just filled us in with an incredible number. Everyday there is more than 400,000 Android devices activated. Wow! That's 100k more than what we were s...
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by Kyle Gibb
Mar 16, 2011
Google has updated the statistics for the state of the Android ecosystem and they show that over 90 percent of all Android devices connecting to the Market are running at least Android 2.1 Ecla...
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by Andrew Melnizek
Jan 31, 2011
Another analyst group is reporting new record numbers for Android today. Canalys has released showing Android in the fourth quarter of 2010 shipped 33.3 million devices worldwide. That's a HUGE differ...
