Google have released a very informative pie chart today. It shows in different shades of green (no surprise there, right?) the percentage of speculated Android versions out there. We say speculated, because the way Google compiles the data, means there’s definitely some room for some Android devices, and their versions, to sneak by the radar undetected.
Over a two-week period, Google tracked the version number of Android-based devices accessing the Android Marketplace. So, for 14 days, Google watched Android 1.1 through Android 2.1 devices as they traversed the applications, and did their downloading deeds. The results are quite enlightening: There’s still a 0.1% of Android devices running Android 1.1; Android 1.5 comes in at 34.1%; Android 1.6 at 28%; Android 2.0 a whopping 0.2%; Android 2.0.1 at 0.4%; and rounding out the top, we’ve got Android 2.1 at 37.2%.
Which probably means Google has marked Android 2.1, or Eclair, as a milestone version of their mobile Operating System. Which, if you ask us, means that it’s perfect timing to release Android 2.2 –Froyo– out into the world. Keep in mind that Google I/O is ready to kick-off tomorrow, so hopefully we’ll have a bit more details about Froyo to share with the world.
[via Android’s Developer Portal]
