Android Lollipop – new updates for HTC and a handful of statistics – Softonet

Android Lollipop, which is the fifth generation of the most popular mobile operating system in the world market peaked at almost half a year ago. This is a good time for the initial summary. Is the latest version of the storm tore into mobile devices, or rather its march among other, older versions of the operating system on mobile devices is very slow? Looking at the statistics, there are indications that the second.

According to the latest data published to the Android Developers (results apply to data collected from the week ending April 6 Br.) all varieties of generation Android Lollipop (versions 5.1 5.0.xi marked numbers) are currently only at 5.4% of the devices. The most popular version of the Android functioning on smartphones and tablets running under Google Android 4.4 KitKat. The store Google Play (and it is the main measure of data provided by the Android Developers site) identifies the version of the system as much as 41.4% of mobile devices. Below full details:

The image with which these data draws in no way indicative of rapid growth in the popularity of the latest generation of Android. The latest Google mobile system now uses less users than the generation codenamed Gingerbread, which first debuted on the market versions of almost five years ago, in December 2010.

The slow migration is partly due to not successful history accompanying the generation Lollipop. First it was a setback after the release of Android 5.0, later came to the more trouble with Android Lollipop malfunction associated with the volume control or function Ambient Display (display notifications on a blank screen). One of the proposed solutions was to migrate immediately to version 5.1, but in this case the number of devices compatible with this system is very small. Today we received the news that has just started to update (ie. rolling out ) to version 5.1 for Android smartphones HTC, HTC models M7 and M8 One, but only in inaccessible in Poland version GPE (Google Play Edition). These smartphones are HTC device last offered in Google’s very successful experiment called Google Play Edition . The idea consists in selling directly on Google Play smartphones with “naked” Android (without any overlays, launczerów and non-standard application) is not accepted.