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Android Devices on Animoca’s Network, Part 2

In the first part of this post, we revealed the device brands used to play Animoca games. Today we will delve deeper into the data to determine which individual devices are the most popular. We used data from the same snapshot taken on April 2, 2012, to cover the preceding 7 days of activity.

First, some information about the user base to put the results into some perspective. The following chart shows how our global audience breaks down.
Breakdown by region of Animoca's Android users

Asia, Europe, and North America together account for 86.2% of Animoca’s Android audience. In Asia it’s South Korea with the most users, in Europe it’s the U.K., and in North America of course it’s the U.S.A. Europe and North America have nearly identical shares of the pie, but Asia accounts for an extra 4% of the audience.

So, with that in mind, here are the most popular devices used by people who play Animoca games on Android smartphones and tablets, today and August last year.

Top 20 Android Devices used to play Animoca games

April, 2012 August, 2011
# 1 Samsung Galaxy S II (all models) Samsung Galaxy Tab
# 2 Amazon Kindle Fire Samsung Galaxy S
# 3 Samsung Galaxy Tab HTC EVO 4G
# 4 Samsung Galaxy Ace LG Optimus M/T/S
# 5 HTC Desire HD HTC Desire HD
# 6 Samsung Galaxy Y Samsung Galaxy S II
# 7 Samsung Galaxy Mini Samsung Captivate
# 8 Pantech Vega Racer Motorola Droid X
# 9 Samsung Galaxy Gio LG Vortex
# 10 HTC Wildfire Samsung Galaxy Ace
# 11 LG Optimus Black Samsung Fascinate
# 12 HTC EVO 4G HTC Incredible
# 13 Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S HTC Glacier
# 14 Sony Ericsson Xperia X8 Motorola Droid 2
# 15 HTC Incredible S Samsung Epic 4G
# 16 HTC Desire S Huawei M860
# 17 HTC Sensation (all models) Samsung Galaxy Mini
# 18 Samsung Galaxy Note HTC Wildfire
# 19 Samsung Nexus S HTC Desire
# 20 Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 and 7.7 Sony Xperia X8

As we saw in the earlier part of this update, Samsung dominates the market. It’s a good job this isn’t a Top 10 list or it would have been rather monotonous with one company holding so many spots (today AND half a year ago).

The clear winner in this list, however, is not Samsung. While the Korean titan’s dominance is absolutely impressive, Animoca reserves our frankest admiration for Amazon’s Kindle Fire, which came out of nowhere to usurp the number 2 position formerly held by Samsung.

Also of interest is the persistence of the HTC Desire HD at number 5, the same position it had last August, showing noteworthy tenacity in the face of Samsung and Amazon’s extremely popular offerings.

LG’s models have shifted downwards: different flavours of the Optimus – the highest ranked LG device in both lists – dropped from fourth to eleventh place in the last six months. Motorola, which held 8th place last August with the Droid X model, is now absent from the top 20. Huawei, whose M860 model held 16th place previously, is likewise gone from the Top 20.

Also noteworthy is the appearance of a newcomer to the Top 20: Pantech, with its Vega Racer, holds today’s number 8 spot.

This concludes the two-part post about users on Android’s Animoca network. Thanks for reading and don’t forget to catch up on part 1 if you haven’t already.

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Android Devices on Animoca’s Network, Part 1

In the first quarter of 2012 Animoca’s various games delivered 465,927,500 minutes of game time to users of Android smartphone and tablet devices. That’s 323,560.76 days, or 886.47 years of fun time.

We wanted a clearer picture, so we took a snapshot to identify the most popular brands among active users of Animoca products on the Android mobile OS. The snapshot was taken on Monday, April 2, 2012, to cover the preceding 7 days of activity.

In this post we focus on the brands that are used by Android users to play Animoca games. In part 2 we delve deeper into the data to determine which individual devices are the most popular.

Device Brands on Animoca's Android network

With a 55.03% slice of the pie, Samsung is clearly the behemoth of Android: among people who play Animoca apps there are more Samsung users than there are users of every other brand put together. In a very distant second place, HTC is doing fairly well with 10.78%, a commanding lead of more than 5% over the next brand. That makes Samsung and HTC number one and two, respectively.

Next, LG (5.72%) and Sony (5.55%) are running an incredibly tight race that LG leads by a thin 0.17% margin. It seems too close to call, so LG and Sony are tied for third and fourth places.

It’s another close race between Motorola (3.82%) and Pantech (3.58%), where Motorola holds a slight lead of just under a quarter of a percent. It’s not a terribly significant difference in our view but we (tentatively) declare Motorola holder of the fifth place and Pantech holder of the sixth.

All other brands account for the remaining 15.52% of users playing Animoca games. Here’s the above information in a list:

 

Samsung       55.03%

HTC                10.78%

LG                    5.72%

Sony                5.55%

Motorola         3.82%

Pantech          3.58%

Other             15.52%

 

Please continue to part 2 of this post, which lists the most popular Android devices used to play Animoca products.

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Animoca arrives on T-Store

Animoca proudly announces the availability of My Car Salon on T-Store, Korea’s largest app store. This is our first title on T-Store and it opened in the Top 10 of all games!

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Celebrate the Chinese New Year with Thousands of FREE Points!

Start the Year of the Dragon with a bang! From now until January 23, 2012, thousands of free points will be given away to our iOS and Android players in celebration of the Chinese New Year!

Happy Chinese New Year!

For iOS users, simply play any of these Animoca apps this weekend to instantly receive your free points:

Pretty Pet Salon
Pretty Pet Tycoon
Cinderella Cafe
Pet Cafe
My Car Salon
Pizza Picasso
FiiCreator
Forest Defense
Pixel Mall
Top Model
Cover Beauty
Space Soldiers
Hospital Story

Android users get a special treat too! Check the “Earn Points” page in any of our apps this weekend and complete the special Chinese New Year offer. Your free points are just a few taps away!

Remember, we also have a few Chinese New Year themed releases especially for this joyous event. Don’t forget to check those out!

This is definitely Animoca’s biggest point giveaway to date, so have fun spending all those free points! We wish all of you a happy and prosperous New Year!

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