Google’s hard working development team has recompiled its Platform Versions chart once more, this time giving us an update about the Android OS breakdown for the two-week period ending February 2nd.
It’s much the same picture as last time, with Android 2.2 pulling away a little further from the rest and the very latest Android 2.3 not really having much of an impact on the overall scheme of things as yet.
So that 0.8% represents the Nexus S owners of the world, unless any one else has updated their phones to 2.3 yet?
HTC’s 4.3″ dual-core Android model, powered by Qualcomm’s all-new S4 processor. It’s smaller than the enormous One X, but is it as nice as its bigger brother? (SPOILER: Yes it is).
HTC is very much B-A-C-K at the top of the Android world with this, its quad-core flagship for 2012. Great camera, huge 4.7″ display and Android 4.0 running beautifully well.
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?
MarkG
/ February 7, 2011As a developer, this means it’s pretty safe to target your apps at SDK 7 (Android 2.1)….
Thomas S
/ February 7, 2011Hope that HTC (Vodafone UK) will release android 2.3 for the Desire…
Great Uncle Mentuss
/ February 7, 2011There’s probably more people with a rooted Nexus One running Gingerbread than Nexus S owners.
The Nexus S, despite a few added features, isn’t that nice a phone, It’s all-plastic, and for some reason some bright spark at Samsung/Google didn’t think it needed an SD Card slot.
Dave Chambers
/ February 7, 2011Yep, I’m running an unofficial 2.3 on my Nexus 1. Still can’t see it making 0.8% though unless Nexus S users are downloading loads of apps
edhe
/ February 7, 2011Contacted HTC today about an estimate for gingerbread and they had no info on it :(
Peter
/ February 7, 20114.7% of my apps users are on Android 2.3 and 3.1% have a Nexus S. That is from AppBrain so the sample is probably biased. Surprised it is as biased as it seems.
Great Uncle Mentuss
/ February 8, 2011All I know from the rumblings I see in the XDA forums is that many Nexus One owners waiting for the next Google dev phone have been thoroughly unimpressed by the Nexus S, and I have to agree, It doesn’t seem enough of a leap in technology (and imho, a partial step backwards in some respects).
It seems a bit mad that Google have pushed this to market with dual core processors only around the corner.