Android News

Android has grown to become the number one smartphone platform in 35 out of 56 countries tracked by analytics firm Canalys, amounting to a 48 percent total market share world-wide. With the number Android leads its nearest competitor, Apple, by nearly 30 percent. The iPhone manufacturer may have shipped 20.3 million devices, but their share [...]

Wel that didn’t take long. After the last update to the platform versions chart showed Android 2.2 sitting somewhere below 5 percent distribution on devices, a slew of updates for the likes of the Motorola Droid and HTC Droid Incredible plus the release of the Motorola Droid 2 has helped rocket the OS version up [...]

The latest report on mobile web consumption is in from analytics firm Quantcast, and Android is once again up, posting up its biggest gain in market share since November 2009. Now sitting at 25 percent, Android is up 17 percent since this time last year, and showing a healthy 5.5 percent growth since last quarter. [...]

It’s time to check in with the Android Platform Versions chart once again, and what as you might expect, Android 2.1 continues to grow as the dominant version of the OS. But before Eclair can even reach a two thirds of devices sitting at 59.7 percent, Froyo has increased its share of devices to 4.5 [...]