Android in Mar 2012: Gingerbread keeps growing, ICS on the rise too

03 April, 2012

Google released their monthly Android Platform version statistics and they show that the Gingerbread line is still on the rise (in fact, it grew the most), despite being succeeded by Ice Cream Sandwich.

The good news is that obsolete versions (pre-Eclair) now account for just 1% of all Android devices, with rusty Eclair itself sitting at 6%. Froyo is declining, but still commands - 23.1%. It debuted a little less than two years ago, so it will probably hold on to a considerable share for a little white longer.

Gingerbread keeps growing, despite several devices getting the ICS update, and currently holds a 63.2% share. ICS phones that dazzled as at the MWC are just hitting the shelves, so there isn't much to drive adoption up (besides the Galaxy Nexus and the updated devices).

Anyway, here's the table with the new OS version shares for March and how they changed compared to February:

Version	Market Share, March	Market Share, February	Change
1.5 Cupcake	0.3%	0.4%	▼0.1
1.6 Donut	0.7%	0.8%	▼0.1
2.1 Eclair	6.0%	6.6%	▼0.6
2.2 Froyo	23.1%	25.3%	▼2.2
2.3 Gingerbread	0.5%	0.5%	0.0
2.3.3-2.3.7 Gingerbread	63.2%	61.5%	▲1.7
3.0 Honeycomb	0.1%	0.1%	0.0
3.1 Honeycomb	1.0%	1.1%	▼0.1
3.2 Honeycomb	2.2%	2.1%	▼0.1
4.0-4.0.2 Ice Cream Sandwich	0.5%	0.4%	▲0.1
4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich	2.4%	1.2%	▲1.2

With yet more devices getting updated to ICS and phones with ICS out of the box, we expect next month's report to show a big jump in Android 4.0 adoption.

Source

Android State of Android

Reader comments

AnonD-49791
09 Apr 2012
Npy

Cost of ownership for android devices is far much less compared to iOS devices

Anonymous
06 Apr 2012
tDx

i think the lower price cost of android phone will make it more succesful than iphone

i like to argue
06 Apr 2012
8IM

It's hilarious seeing android fans say "the update will have the fix for this or that", so bad an OS update means much more a bug fix than a better experience based on new features