Android is at 19 thousand. different devices on the market – TELEPOLIS.PL

Android is now a very popular system. We find it both in the top smartphones, tablets, and simple devices, not necessarily closely related to telecommunications.

IDC report shows that Android is by far the most popular mobile operating system in smartphones. But not only is the same Android smartphones. The market is currently 18,796 different devices with this system, compared with the previous year, an increase by 60%. Last year it was 11,868 units, but compared with 2012 growth is huge, when the market was 3997 units with a green robot. The leader in the number of devices with Android is the Samsung, which owns 43% of the market. In addition, up to 12 of the 13 most popular devices came from the hand of the Korean manufacturer. Despite a decrease compared to last year’s 47.5% advantage over the rest of Samsung’s players in the market is still huge.
 

A large number of devices is a great challenge for the developers who have before them almost 19 thousand. different devices for which you need to create applications, and in addition they must be properly optimized simultaneously. An additional problem is the very large fragmentation when it comes to operating system versions. With the latest views Android – KitKat (4.4) are currently used 20.9% of the devices. Senior Jeally Bean has sequentially 26.5% of devices for version 4.1, 19.8% for versions 4.2 and 7.9% for version 4.3. Ice Cream Sandwitch (4.0.3 – 4.0.4) is installed on 10.6% of devices, Gingerbread (2.3.3 – 2.3.7) on 13.6% and Froyo (2.2) to 0.7%. For comparison, under the control of 7 iOS version works 91% of the devices with this system, 8% in version 6 and only 1% have an older wersjęsystemu.
 

But the troublesome variety of Android, it’s not just different versions of the system. Added to this a large amount of functions of smartphones, which from year to year more and more. For example, the latest flagship model of Samsung Galaxy S5, enforce a system of support for 19 different sensors and modules. From the basics, such as camera, Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, and fingerprint reader. To this were not enough, Android has to be matched to the entire range of various screens, differing diagonal and resolution, as well as overlays manufacturers of Touch Wizz, the HTC Sense.
 

The full report together with animated charts showing the diversity of Android is available on the opensignal.com

Source text: Opensignal