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18 Jun 2010
Google has said that just over half of the users of its Android mobile operating system are running the latest versions.
Statistics released yesterday reveal that 50.4 per cent of devices accessing the Android Market in the past two weeks used Android 2.0 or higher. The figure breaks down as 50 per cent Android 2.1, 0.3 per cent Android 2.0.1 and 0.1 per cent Android 2.0.
The remaining 46.6 per cent of Android devices accessing Android Market were evenly split between versions 1.6 and 1.6.
Google released Android 2.0 in October on the back of the Motorola Droid, which has proved to be one of the most popular Android devices to date.
Google made the Android information available to developers to help them prioritise the development of application features for devices currently in use.
But the statistical detail demonstrates how developers have to work across a number of different versions, potentially limiting access to latest application features.
This is particularly problematic given recent research suggesting that developers often have to manage Android, Flash Lite and iPhone, as well as a number of versions of each operating system.
Android 2.2 has just been made available.
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Dan's right
Dan's hit the nail on the head, I'm one of many eagerly awaiting HTC to release the 2.2 update. The only way to get it now would be to root my phone which would invalidate the warranty.
Posted by: Chris 28 Jun 2010
It's not users who make the choice
Third party manufacturers push the updates to phones when they are ready to - so rather the users being slow to adopt, it's actually the reluctance of the likes of HTC and Sony to upgrade their 1.5/1.6 handsets. And remember, 2.2 has not been officially released on any handset yet, so it's unsurprising that adoption is slow.
Posted by: Dan 19 Jun 2010