Google chairman Eric Schmidt took the opportunity during the unveiling of Motorola's latest RAZR handsets to share info on how the Android platform is doing out on today's mobile phone market. There are about 480 million Android devices out in the world today in total, with the amount of activations reaching up to 1.3 million units per day. 57.5% of those are still running Gingerbread, while ICS now accounts for 20.9% of all Android devices. Jelly Bean has been slow to rise, currently sitting at just 1.2% of all active devices.
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- Google-owned Motorola recently unveiled a total of three new Android smartphones, all of which will ship with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich but will be updated to Jelly Bean later this year.
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It’s good to see these numbers change for the better, but it doesn’t help matters when you have wireless providers still releasing phones with a more than two year old version of Android- Charles West, Intomobile
- iPhone Download Blog
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Android marches: 480M devices, 1.3M daily activations, 70,000 tablets per day
Daily activations surged from a million Android devices back in June to today’s number of 1.3 million daily activations.
- Gadgetorama
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Google now seeing 1.3 million Android activations every day
Some 480 million Android devices are currently active across the globe.
- DroidDog
- 1.3 million Android Devices Activated Every Day, Nearing Half a Billion Total
- Mobile Syrup
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Google: Jelly Bean is now powering 1.2% of Android devices, ICS sitting at 20.9%
The leader by a longshot is still Gingerbread (OS 2.3) with 57.5%, but the good news is that it dropped over the past few weeks by 3.1%.
- Android Police
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Latest Android Distribution Stats Now Available – Jelly Bean Reaches 1.2%, Gingerbread Still Dominates At 57.5%
Ice Cream Sandwich, meanwhile, has climbed from 15.8% to nearly 21%, which definitely sounds promising.
- Phandroid
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Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Now On 1.2% of Devices, Ice Cream Sandwich On 20.9%
Jelly Bean hasn’t been advancing quite as quickly, up now to 1.2%, a small increase over last month where it debuted at .8%.
- The Next Web
- Android Jelly Bean adoption hits 1.2%, up 50% during August, Ice Cream Sandwich at 21%
- Phone Arena
- Jelly Bean jumps to 1.2% and ICS hits 21%
- AndroidSPIN
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Jelly Bean and ICS Running on 22% of Devices
This is thanks to our awesome developers that our busting their butts to get us the latest and greatest in Android awesomeness.
- GSM Arena
- Jelly Bean user base now stands at 1.2 percent
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