Four out of ten Androids prefer the taste of Gingerbread

Another month, another land-grab by Android’s now-dominant Gingerbread iteration. The last smartphone-only version now lays claim to 44.4 percent of all Android phones. We’d put this right down to continued efforts by the main phone manufacturers to deliver version 2.3 on their new phones, and never the customarily haphazard attempts at upgrading existing devices. Froyo, which took nine months to seize a majority share, still claws onto a 40.7 percent share, while Honeycomb on tablets (not included above) scrapes together just below two percent of the Android ecosystem. Hopefully ICS will bring harmony to all Google-powered devices, but it will become a challenge to best version 2.x’s high watermark — it once captured 83 percent of everything Android.

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