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Android Figures

There are roughly speaking two versions of Android, the Google Play Store and without Google’s application store. Of course these figures only include devices that offer the Google Play Store feature, the vast majority of Android devices on the market. Previously, all devices that the Google Play Store (or Android Market) and had included an internet connection in the distribution figures. These devices automatically send a message to the Google servers to let them know that they are there and to ask whether the Play Store, for example. Updated From April 2013 only smartphones and tablets included that actually open the Google Play Store.

Current figures

We see that this month Gingerbread Android Version is still the largest. Android 2.3 has a share of 36.5% of active Android devices, but is still clearly on the wane. The decrease of 2% will mainly deal with consumers who purchase new Android devices, but also with recent updates as the Samsung Galaxy Advance. Also Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) is in decline, the share of Android 4.0 has fallen 27.5% to 25.6%. It will not be long before Android 4.1, 4.2 and possibly 4.3, known as Jelly Bean, the largest Android version will be. This month, the market share of Jelly Bean from 28.4% to 33%, which almost a third of Android devices running on one of the two latest Android versions.

distribution figures show also what screen sizes and resolutions are widely used in Android. The data collected is shown in the table and charts below. The majority of the units (about 36.7%) appears to be in terms of screen that is similar to the Samsung Galaxy S II device: a “normal” screen size and a hdpi’ resolution. We can also see in the table that 3.3% of the devices a full HD resolution (or similar) has. These are for example the HTC One, Galaxy S4 and Sony Xperia Z

We see at least a clear trend towards higher resolution displays. The percentage of smartphones with a full HD resolution is increased by two percent, a significant increase when you consider that only smartphones (not tablets) fall into this category.

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