It’s that time of the month, when Google releases the device statistics for the previous months, these statistics act as a guide for developers in telling them which versions of Android show the most amount of users and therefore where they should be targeting their applications. Remember that last month Google changed the way the [...]

Around the start of every calendar month, Google releases figures through the Android Developer Dashboard site detailing proportions of Android are active in use in the wild. Developers can use these figures to help focus their development efforts on specific Android OS versions or decide which API levels they should use in their apps. April’s [...]

It’s a new month and that means it’s time for the Google Developers Dashboard to update with the figures on what versions of Android have been accessing Google Play within a 14-day period that ended on the 4th of March. So, what do we see this month? The only version of Android showing growth this [...]

The February numbers are out for the distribution of Android versions across the over half a billion devices out there. Basically it appears that trends from previous months are continuing or in other words the instances of devices running Eclair, Froyo, Gingerbread and Honeycomb is continuing to decline in usage as either more devices have [...]

The first numbers of the New Year are in and the number of Android devices running at least Ice Cream Sandwich or greater stands at just over 39%, with at least 10% of the total amount of Android devices out there running Android 4.1 or greater. Devices running Android 4.0 and above the only versions [...]

A couple of days ago we received an email from a company called aussiePADS, telling us that they are busy developing a new, Australian-made Android tablet based on the 1.6GHz Samsung Exynos 4 quad-core processor. For those of you playing at home, you’ll realise this is the very same chip inside the Samsung Galaxy Note [...]

Once again, Telstra have provided an update on the status of their Android handset updates. It seems most devices with an impending update are set to receive them before the year’s end. The long awaited Samsung Galaxy S II 4G Ice Cream Sandwich update is now rolling out as we speak. According to Telstra, the [...]

Looks like owners of the Samsung Galaxy S II 4G are about to receive their Ice Cream Sandwich update finally, with Craig Ruhan from Telstra advising via the Crowd Support Forums that the Samsung has advised that the update will begin rolling out to the handsets from 5PM tomorrow : All, Samsung have informed us [...]

Motorola have posted an update on the status of their Android upgrade schedule. Ice Cream Sandwich is the order of the day for the majority of their devices, with only two exceptions. The Motorola RAZR HD Jelly Bean update was only recently rolled out. The RAZR M is listed as moving to Jelly Bean early [...]

Telstra have once again posted news on their handset OTA update status. And, in a continuing trend, they bring some mixed news. Good news for Samsaung Galaxy S II 4G owners, as the Ice Cream Sandwich update has finally been approved. Deployment is expected very soon, though no specific dates have been given as yet. [...]

Sony has announced new updates for Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) for its Xperia P, U, Go and Sola Android phones. The Ice Cream Sandwich firmware includes improvements to: stability, WiFi, tethering/portable hotspot, camera (capture and playback), NFC and Messaging It’s not clear precisely which version of Android 4.0 will be released. From information on [...]

Back in October, we covered a new version of Google’s Gmail app that includes the popular “pinch to zoom” feature. At that point the apk was merely a leak pulled from an unreleased Nexus dump. As of today, the app, sitting at version 4.2.1, is now officially available on Google Play Store for all devices [...]

The latest platform distribution figures for Android have been released and as has been seen over the last couple of months, Gingerbread has continued its downward trend with it now running on just over 50% of Android Devices. The good news for Google and Android as a whole is that devices running Jelly Bean has [...]