Animoca data: US Android 4 share and the top 5 Android phones (November 2012)
Top OS versions on the Animoca Android network (US only)
(for the 30 days ending November 29, 2012)
A couple months ago the Android world was disappointed to hear reports that older versions of Google’s mobile OS still accounted for the majority of all Android OS devices. After having a look at our data, we suspect the situation – at least in the US – has improved enormously.
We just performed an analysis of Animoca’s network of US users and found that 46.1% of Animoca Android users in the US use Android version 4.0 or better (versus 51.7% in South Korea, arguably the world’s most technologically advanced market).
This is a huge increase if you consider data reported by Google in September, which showed all versions of Android 4 holding a paltry 22.1% penetration rate among Android devices. At the time, Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) ruled the Android ecosystem with a dominating 57.7% share.
Today we see Android 4.0.4 in the lead with 31.4% share of all Android smartphones and tablets, making it the single most popular version of Android on our network. It is followed by Android 2.3.6 which tenaciously hangs on to a 21.5% share, although it will no doubt continue to shrink as newer versions of Google’s mobile operating system supersede it on ever more devices.
The most popular smartphones on the Animoca Android network (US only)
(for the 30 days ending November 29, 2012)