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"Google just released an interesting set of data showing which versions of its Android operating system are most used by mobile phone owners.\r\n\r\nGingerbread (and in particular versions\u00A0Android versions 2.3.3 -\r\n2.3.7) make up a dominant 58.6 percent of handsets while its latest flavour -- Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) -- accounts for one percent of phones.\r\n\r\nThe data was taken in a two week period ending February 1,\u00A0during which Google measured and analysed visitors to its Android Market app store.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nFor those who prefer the data tabulated, or broken out by nicknames and more precise versions, Google duly obliged:\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe sheer number of Android versions, which also include customised OSes such as the one Amazon runs on its Kindle Fire tablet, have seen fragmentation become a significant issue for Google.\r\n\r\nExecutive Chairman Eric Schmidt took a different approach to the issue, however, when he said that the\u00A0different flavours give greater choice\u00A0to mobile owners. This variation is one factor that Schmidt thinks will see Android become developers' number one choice ahead of iOS by June this year.\r\n\r\nGoogle gave no specific data on the number of devices covered by the study, however it is likely to be someway short of the total number in existence. Andy Rubin\u00A0recently announced\u00A0that it is adding 700,000 new Android device registrations per day, which gives it a (rough) estimate of around 230 million devices at the time of his comments in December."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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