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Google released statistics showing the breakdown of the various versions of the Android operating system worldwide. The numbers show that about the same amount of consumers have older version Android 1.5 (Donut) as those with new Android 4.0+ (Ice Cream Sandwich); both at 0.6% market share. As more phones become upgraded, they are done so towards Android 2.3+ (Gingerbread) as the stats show more than fifty-five percent of all Android smartphones have this version of the operating system currently. Tablets, while not doing so impressive did have an increase from last month, up from 2.4% to 3.3% market share. Check out the stats after the break...Read Full Article
Now more than half of Android devices are Android 2.3.x (Gingerbread) at 50.6% respectively...Read Full Article
Friends at Android and Me put together this awesome infographic of more than 3,500 respondents noting their mobile gaming habits. The survey concluded more than a quarter have between 6-10 games installed with another quarter having 15+ games installed; while majority of these installed games are free a quarter of them are paid for. It also found that a quarter of respondents would pay an average of $4 as top price for a game, obviously vast majority buy games from the Android Market versus Amazon. However a combined total of 45% of those polled spend more than 3 hours on average per week playing mobile games. See more juicy stats in the infographic below...Read Full Article
According to a report by ABI Research, Android media tablets have collectively taken 20% market share away from the iPad in the last 12 months. Though no single vendor using Android (or any other OS) has been able to mount a significant challenge against it.Read Full Article
According to Google's platform version statistics, just above one percent of the market accounts for Android Tablets running Android 3.0+ (Honeycomb), whereas, nearly a quarter of devices are either being upgraded to or shipping with Android 2.3+ (Gingerbread); yet more than half of the market share is running Android 2.2 Froyo. In our last analysis of this data we concluded that Android tablets are currently not selling as well as expected, however, a concrete determination would be after the holiday season.Read Full Article
The complete Amazon free Android apps of the day list. If you're following our Facebook & Twitter pages (which you should be), you'll notice we notify you of Amazon Free Android Apps of the Day! Below is a live-list of all their freebies since its launch in March 2011. Check out our app reviews too! P.S. here is an RSS feed of this list to check daily. P.P.S. check out our exclusive report about Amazon free Android app of the day program!Read Full Article
In an exclusive report we compiled for Amazon regarding their App Store free Android app of the day, consumers save nearly $900 on Android apps annually! We also conducted our own survey of our members to accompany very interesting findings and seeing evidence of how multiple competitive app marketplaces can benefit consumers. Even if customers only downloaded the free apps every day, it would be equivalent to what some pay annually to their wireless carrier; another perk for purchasing an Android phone or tablet. Here is the complete Amazon free Android apps of the day list. Lets get into the report...Read Full Article
In Google's keynote at Google I/O 2011 they gave us some amazing statistics of growth of the smartphone platform. Below are key figures...Read Full Article
Based on Google's latest platform stats they release monthly showing the break down of the various versions of Android in the market worldwide, I would conclude Android tablets are not selling well at all accounting for 0.3% market share of Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) software for tablets. By our estimates this would be about 125,000 tablets sold in the first quarter of 2011, which puts it right on par with estimates of 100K a month ago by Deutsche Bank, reported by Business Insider. When you compare this to Apple's iPad 2 sales, which estimated first week sales between 350,000 to 400,000; the results are dismal.Read Full Article
Android 2.2 (Froyo) is the now dominant version of Android at 61.3% shown in monthly statistical data compiled by Google. We're seeing the trickle of Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) tablets at 0.2% and Android 2.3+ (Gingerbread) at 1.7% combined. Android 2.1 (Eclair) dropped from 31.4% to 29% and Android 1.6 (Donut) and Android 1.5 (Cupcake) account for 7.8% combined. Check out the platform version chart to see the mobile OS saturation in the market...Read Full Article
Android 2.2 (Froyo) is up to 57.6% from 51.8% market share of all devices running Google's Android mobile OS from a month ago. Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) inched from 0.4% to 0.8%. Android 2.1 (Eclair) dropped from 35.2% to 31.4%, depreciated Android 1.6 (Donut) and Android 1.5 (Cupcake) continue to drop at 6.3% and 3.9% respectively. Check out the platform version chart to see the mobile OS saturation in the market...Read Full Article
AndroidZoom, an alternative Android apps listing Android Market website, produced a report of the evolution of apps in 2010. See key statistics and charts from the report.Read Full Article
According to a report by Canalys, Google's Android mobile OS has taken the global smartphone lead shipping more than 33 million in Q4 of 2010 alone (a 615.1% growth from Q4 of 2009; Android shipments in all of 2009 were nearly 8 million). In only two years Android has come to surpass Nokia, Apple and RIM in worldwide smartphone saturation, but we've seen this coming... it now has the numbers to prove it. Check the stats below...Read Full Article
With one a month of the only Android smartphone to date sold with Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) the Nexus S doesn't make a dent with 0.4% in comparison to processor version Android 2.2 (Froyo) with 51.8% market share of all devices running Google's Android mobile OS. Android 2.1 (Eclair) dropped from 39.6% to 35.2%, depreciated Android 1.6 (Cupcake) and Android 1.5 (Donut) need to finally lay to rest at 7.9% and 4.7% respectively. Check out the platform version chart to see the mobile OS saturation in the market...Read Full Article