Google has spoken out again. The Mountain View company has just released the data that it is publishing periodically about the percentage and distribution of versions of the Android operating system for mobile phones. And the truth is that the data is most revealing, since contrary to what was expected, the version of Android most used by the majority of users of this platform is still the one known with the numbering 2.2 or with the name of FroYo. An edition that at this point should be exhausting its presence in current terminals.
The reality is that more than half of Android users still have the Froyo version installed on their phone. We are talking about 64.6% of users, a large majority who in many cases are patiently awaiting an update that is most anticipated, logically to version 2.3 and 2.3.3, also known as Gingerbread. At the moment, the latest statistics reveal that 1.1% and 8.1%, respectively, are working with this latest version of this operating system, while only 0.3% are using Android 3.0 and 3.1 Honeycomb, an edition specially developed for tablets.
Another of the most widely used versions is Android 2.1 Éclair, an edition that has a distribution percentage of 21.2%. Android 1.5 and 1.6 are obsolete versions with increasingly lower distribution percentages. In this review, specifically, they have been distributed by 1.9% and 2.5%, respectively. And while Gingerbread was expected to grow at a much smoother pace, the version that has seen a real rise is Froyo, going from 61.3% in March to 64.6% in June. It will be necessary to see how these percentages evolve from the second half of the year, to see if Google manages to boost the trajectory of Android 2.3.3.
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