Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich making modest gains

BANGALORE, INDIA: The Andorid platfrom remains fragmented with one-fifth of all devices sporting Android 2.2 (Froyo), which is nearly triple the number of devices running Android's latest release, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, according to latest Google updates.

However, adoption of the latest version of its mobile OS has grown since April. Google's Developer "Platform Versions" site put Ice Cream Sandwich use at approximately 4.9 percent of all recorded Android devices in April, but ICS adoption is up to 7.1 percent as of June 1 — a modest gain, but a gain nevertheless.

Devices running the Gingerbread version of Android's OS — that's Android versions 2.3 to 2.3.7 — still make up the lion's share of Android's base. And this chunk isn't slowing down: 65 percent of all Android devices rocked Gingerbread as of Google's June figures, up six-tenths of a percent from its April's analysis.

A significant portion of Google's Android base still runs Android 2.2, or Froyo — 19.1 percent, down nearly 2 percent from Google's April figures. The more impressive figure is that nearly 6 percent of all recorded Android devices sport a version of the OS that's even older: Android 2.1, or Eclair, takes up 5.2 percent of Android's recorded devices as of Google's June 1 analysis. Nearly 1 percent of all Android devices run either Android 1.6 (Donut) or Android 1.5 (Cupcake) — time to throw out the legacy products, people.