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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 05, 2013
The latest Android platform version numbers are in, and things are marching slowly along in the direction you'd expect. Jelly Bean -- which comprises Android 4.1 and 4.2 -- ticked up a few perce...
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by Andrew Martonik
Feb 05, 2013
Right on schedule, the Android Developers Dashboard has reported the share of devices running each version of Android as of February 4, 2013. These numbers are measured based on the number of users ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 03, 2013
Android 4.1 and 4.2 each up 50 percent over last month's tallies
The latest numbers are in, and things are continuing to move in the right direction: The "Jelly Bean" version of An...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 14, 2012
Metago, the folks behind the uber-popular Android app Astro File Manager, has reached out for us to pass along a bit of news. They are busy with Astro version 4.0, and realize that a lot folks ...
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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 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 Chris Parsons
Jun 01, 2012
Over the past little while we've started to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich make its way to quite a few devices and now Google has updated their latest Android platform version statistics to give...
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by Alex Dobie
Apr 02, 2012
Google has just released an updated set of Android platform statistics for the two-week period ending April 2, 2012. These numbers show the proportion of various version of Android to have accessed ...
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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
Feb 02, 2012
Google has just released the latest numbers regarding who's using what version of Android. These are devices that have accessed the Android Market over two weeks ending Feb. 1. The long and shor...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 31, 2012
We know what Google tells us about the number of devices on each platform. We can also read server logs and get a pretty good idea of the versions of Android hitting the site. But what b...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 04, 2012
Google's just released the latest numbers showing the distribution of the various versions of Android. Ice Cream Sandwich has made the list for the first time, with Android 4.0 totalling 0.6 per...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 04, 2011
Google has released the latest version numbers for Android, and they're about what you'd expect. For the past two weeks ending Nov. 3, Gingerbread has crept up to 44.4 percent (up from 38.7 ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 20, 2011
The wait is over -- Google has officially announced Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, and showed us a whole lot to like. Of course, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus is coming soon, and and many others w...
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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 Phil Nickinson
Jul 07, 2011
Welcome to another exciting edition of "Who's using which Android version!" -- the game show that takes a look at the various versions of Android floating around out in the world...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 01, 2011
Another month, another batch of numbers showing us the percentage of devices running the various builds of Android. And the numbers haven't change greatly since our last look a month ago.The big winne...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 03, 2011
Google just released the latest batch of numbers showing us how many devices are on on which version of Android.The big picture didn't change much in April -- Froyo still dominates, growing to 65.9 pe...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 02, 2011
The latest Android versions numbers are in, and it remains relatively unchanged from last month. Android 2.2 continues to dominate at 63.9 percent, up from 61.3 percent from the previous two weeks or...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 21, 2011
One of our favorite drinking games is "Guess the OS version." Someone plops down a phone in front of the "Roach" (the person who's guessing), and they have to, well, guess. Wh...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 03, 2011
Google just released the latest figures on the number of Android variants in the wild. For the two weeks ending Feb. 2, 89.8 percent of devices are on Android 2.1 and up. Realistically, that means An...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 02, 2010
It's been another month, and that means it's time to take another look at the breakdown of Android versions in the wild. (Click here to see October's numbers.) Android 2.1 (Eclair) and 2.2 (Froyo...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 01, 2010
The march of Froyo continues, with Android 2.2 now on one-third of all Android devices. Please excuse us while we do a little jig. ... ... ... OK, we're back. That's right, folks, 33.4 percent of dev...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 10, 2010
It's been more than a month since we last heard from Google regarding how many devices are on which version of the Android operating system, and what a difference a month makes. As of Aug. 2, only 4....
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by Kyle Gibb
Aug 19, 2010
TechRadar has done some digging, and actually have "multiple sources" that confirm that the version of Android following Android 3.0 ("Gingerbread") will be named "...
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 03, 2010
It's been a couple more weeks, and that means it's time once again to check out the Android fragmentation (erm, legacy) score sheet. For the past two weeks ending Aug. 2, devices running Android...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 21, 2010
Better late than never, the latest Android version numbers (ending July 15) show the number of phones with Eclair (Android 2.1) and Froyo (Android 2.2) now at 58.8 percent, up from 54.9 perc...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 16, 2010
It's been a couple of weeks, and that means it's time for an update as to who's running which version of Android. (See the previous breakdown here.) Fifty percent of Android devices are now running An...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 01, 2010
Another couple of weeks, and more new numbers regarding Android platform percentages. For the two weeks ending June 1, we now see 45.1 percent of Android phones running Eclair -- Android 2.1. Tha...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 23, 2010
This is Vic Gundotra, vice president of engineering with Android. And he's about to say something you need to listen to. Something you all need to listen to. And when he's finished, go back and liste...
