It’s time for Google’s fortnightly look at the way its Android userbase is broken down, courtesy of its latest Android Developers Platform Versions update. The new numbers show Android 2.1 is the most-used incarnation of Google’s mobile OS out there today, with 45% of Android phones accessing the Android Market using the 2.1 update – up from 37% only a fortnight earlier.
Of course, Google generates these numbers by counting connections to the Android Market – so the data is skewed in favour of regions where the Android Market is readily available.
Here’s how Android’s userbase broke down, for the two-week period ending June 1, 2010:
Hang in there, you rest-of-the-world HTC Hero owners and your 1.5 machines. Your moment will come soon – after all, HTC said the Hero update would arrive in June, and there are 29 days of June left.
Oh yes, we are counting.
It’s smooth to use, the 1080p display is sharp, clear and bright, the device is extremely light and thin and therefore very pocketable and portable — much more so than other 5-inch phones we’ve used. And yet… we’re a bit unimpressed by the overall package…
A relatively high-spec smartphone, with a 4.5″ display running at 480 x 854 resolution and powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, plus the Ascend G510 arrives running Android 4.1.1 — albeit potentially hindered by Huawei only sticking 512MB of RAM inside it..
The Panasonic Eluga marks the company’s return to the European mobile phone scene years after several years of absence, and it’s come back to us with a moderately high-spec Android model that features a rather stylish, slim case.
Sony returns with an all-new mobile design for 2012, pairing a dual-core processor with a 720p display. It’s a lovely phone, but is it enough to end our Samsung and HTC obsession?
LG’s updated Prada phone comes with an absolutely crazy black & white theme, but is it just for fashionable suit wearers who want to make themselves look a bit more interesting?
Mark
/ June 2, 2010I bet a large chunk of 1.5 devices are Hero devices.
It could be that Google are about to “unsplit” the market, as as soon if Hero running 1.5 can be updated to 2.1, then so can the 1.6 devices…
Perhaps we will see a day when 99% of devices are on at least 2.1
DragonShadow
/ June 3, 2010I got the upgrade last night on my HTC Hero and so far I’m loving it.
James
/ June 4, 2010I read on a blog that the 2.1 upgrade for the Hero causes problems on the Hero. Like battery dies quickly, constantly crashes, extreme lag etc. Can someone let me know if this is the widespread case? Because i don’t want to upgrade if the phone becomes unuseable…