nsane.forums Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Google's newest version of its Android mobile operating system, called Ice Cream Sandwich, is only on .06 percent of devices.A wave of devices running Google's latest Android flavor, Ice Cream Sandwich, may be expected at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show, but ICS is currently active on just 0.6 percent of all Android devices worldwide. The latest Android distribution numbers are based on Google's count of devices that have accessed the Android Market over a 14-day period that ended Tuesday.It's unclear how many devices 0.6 percent accounts for, but some are estimating there could be 1.2 million ICS devices or more in the wild. Google in November said it had activated 200 million devices.ICS may not be a big hit yet compared to other Android versions, but that should change in the coming months. Most device owners expecting an ICS upgrade are still waiting for the new Android OS to roll out as the majority of upgrades are slated for the first three to six months of 2012. Computerworld has an updated list of Android devices expecting an ICS upgrade.The first ICS device, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, only launched in the U.S. on December 15; more ICS devices should make an appearance during CES starting next Tuesday. Finally, the source code for ICS was made available in November meaning any device manufacturers not working closely with Google only recently got their hands on ICS.The most popular Android flavor is still Gingerbread (2.3), which was officially released in December 2010, with 55.5 percent of all Android devices. Froyo is in second place with 30.4 percent, while Google's tablet-specific OS Honeycomb, released in February 2011, claims 3.3 percent of all Android devices.With Ice Cream Sandwich Google hopes to reduce the amount of version fragmentation currently plaguing the mobile OS. The new Android flavor will work on both tablets and smartphones, and the search giant recently introduced new mandatory device support for Holo, the stock ICS visual theme. Google hopes the new compatibility standard will make it easier for third-party apps that support ICS to look the same across a wider variety of Android devices. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marshall39 Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Thanks Cyanogen team they will give us what phone vendors are not (don't want?) able to do :showoff: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtmulc Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 Hell, I'm still on Froyo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marshall39 Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 Hell, I'm still on Froyo.Why don't you flash?What's your phone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hottwire Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 Thanks Cyanogen team they will give us what phone vendors are not (don't want?) able to do :showoff:Yeah thanks to them my poor HTC Wildfire which should only be running Froyo still is running 2.3.7 xD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bashar Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 if i hate anything about google androidit would be the Fragmentation stupid thingwhy not be able to support most of the phones with their latest OS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtmulc Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 Hell, I'm still on Froyo.Why don't you flash?What's your phone?Just did. cyanogenmod 7.EDIT: Not terribly impressed so far. The GPS wasn't very good to begin with, now it doesn't work at all. Getting rid of the bloatware is nice, but my battery life has been terrible since I flashed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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