The criticized fragmentation of Android is less and less. Or at least, it has its translation in a lower dilution of versions of the Google platform in the total package of smartphones where it is installed. This is revealed by the latest census of devices that use the platform developed by those from Mountain View.
The statistics arrive just when the new version of the system begins to be distributed, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS), which is released on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the third generation of Google's mobile phone, and which in Spain is for sale by the British company Vodafone. ICS has also been seen in tablets that have been seen in the Asian market (remember that this edition of the platform is hybrid, and is designed to work on mobiles and tablets).
Thus, in the last two weeks of November, Google would have developed a monitoring of active phones with Android, deducing that 50.6 percent of the world park of Android terminals work with one of the versions of Android 2.3 Gingerbread, which It is the latest version of the platform compatible with phones (since the ICS update for smartphones has not been released for now).
FroYo (i.e. Android 2.2) is the next most widespread version in the Google ecosystem. A 35.3 percent of phones running around the planet with the platform of the Mountain View work with this version, which it follows that practically all of the devices that have gone on in the second half of November They have the last two editions of the system (85.9 percent, in total).
The portion represented by Google's tablet systems is anecdotal compared to the mobile platform (not so compared to the older editions that are still active). In this way, the presence of 2.3 percent of Android 3.0 Honeycomb in any of its versions stands out over the 2.1 percent of Android 1.5 and Android 1.6, although it is less than 9.6 percent of Android 2.1 Eclair (and of course, well below that represented by Android 2.2 FroYo).
Precisely, in the case of establishing a comparison with these last two editions, we could understand a certain legitimacy, considering that many Android tablets of the economic segment that we find in stores work with not so current versions of the system.
