[id-android] WTI: 28.7 Percent of all Android Devices Now Running 2.2 Update, "Froyo"

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Some four months after Android's 2.2. "Froyo" update was released into
the wild, new figures from Google show that the latest iteration of
its mobile operating system is starting to take a sizable hold
throughout the existing Android market. That said, Android as a whole
still remains highly fragmented throughout the various devices on
which it runs.
As reported by Google, 28.7 percent of all Android devices are now
running version 2.2 of the operating system, with the largest
percentage of growth (by purchase or by updates) occurring within the
month of August. Android 2.1 still remains the most-used version of
the mobile operating system by a significant amount at 41.7 percent,
however.
More devices are using a 1.x iteration of Android than the 2.2 update
by a percentage of 39.5 percent to 28.7 percent. Of these, 17.5
percent of users are still running version 1.6 of Android, and 12
percent are stuck on version 1.5.
We phrase that as we do, for it's not as if all users have a choice to
bump up to successive versions of the OS: Depending on phone and
carrier support, many users of the year-old version of the Android OS
might have no choice but to stick with the legacy operating system.
Samsung's original Galaxy phone, for example, can only upgrade as far
as Android 1.5—the company's Behold II phone is forever latched to
version 1.6 of the OS.
The rate of Android upgrading—or ability to do—is decidedly different
than what's seen on the smartphones of Google's mobile OS rival,
Apple. According to a late July report by Chitika Research, slightly
over 50 percent of all users had upgraded to the latest iteration of
the operating system, iOS 4.0, within one week of its release.
Of the remaining iPhone users, 29.86 percent were sitting on version
3.1.3 of the operating system, the most recent version prior to the
launch of iOS 4. Only 2.06 percent of the approximately nine million
surveyed users were running the original 3.0 iPhone update, and half
that—a scant 1 percent—were running any 2.x version of the OS.
Of course, all iPhones—save for first-generation models—can freely
upgrade to iOS 4. As mentioned, that's not quite the case with Android
phones, given that each carrier or handset manufacturer has to
customize the core Android OS for a different kind of phone.

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