Posts Tagged ‘Android OS’

Canalys has released its latest numbers and Android sees another big jump, adding onto the 886 percent jump seen in the second quarter of this year. Android is up 1,309 percent worldwide from the same time last year, taking over 43.6 percent of the U.S. smartphone market in the third quarter. That is translates into ...

Google has not been very outspoken about its plans for Gingerbread, Android 3.0. DigiTimes has is reporting that Google has recently reached out to its hardware partners to inform them that development on Gingerbread "will soon be completed" and that they can expect engineering prototypes sometime in December. With that news, you ...

Android 2.1 has finally become the most used Android OS. For the first time since Google's been keeping these platform version stats, Android 2.1 has risen above Android 1.5, the previous incumbent, having grown from 32.4 percent on May 3 to 37.2 percent on May 17. You can expect this growth to intensify ...

In a press release late last night, Microsoft signed a patent agreement with HTC for all of their mobile phone running the Android OS. Specifically, Microsoft's said the agreement "provides broad coverage under Microsoft's patent portfolio for HTC 's mobile phones running the Android mobile platform." The announcement comes as HTC ...

Mobile Ad Network Admob has released a new report for March and it has some interesting finds. In March 2010, there were a total of 34 Android devices available to consumers.  In AdMob's network during the month of March, 11 devices accounted for 96 percent of Android traffic. Also, the Android OS's that drove the ...

Google posted an update on the status of Android OS fragmentation showing the percentage of devices using each Android version. (See the chart after the break) Android 1.5 still takes the crown but it looks like there is a pretty even distribution among the devices with fewer using Android 1.6 and more using the latest Android ...