The Android platform is going great guns, with over 30 million activations in each quarter. It is expected that this number will only increase in the coming days. To give us an idea about the number of devices that run on each version of Android, Google has released a chart showing the percentage of Android versions that have accessed the Android Market. The smartphone numbers are encouraging, though the same cannot be said about the tablet version of Android, Honeycomb 3.x. The report suggests that Froyo (2.2) is still on top with the most number of activations, while Gingerbread (2.3.3 and 2.3.4) is still considerably behind. Gingerbread was launched in December last year with the Google Nexus S. However, other manufacturers were slow in rolling out handsets with the updated OS. This delay could be the reason for Gingerbread’s slow start. Froyo makes up for about 55.9% of Android devices the world over, while 2.3.3 and 2.3.4 make up for a mere 23.7%. Honeycomb, which now includes Android 3.2, has grown from 0.9 to 1.3% – a decent increase from Google’s previous numbers. It is believed that the slow start is mainly due to Android 3.x launching in the non-holiday season.
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