Android 5.0 Lollipop is finally on the map with 1.6% adoption

[Himanshu Arora]

Google has updated its Android platform versions page, and the good news is that Android 5.0 Lollipop, the company's latest version of the mobile operating system, is finally on the official radar -- as of February 2, around 1.6 percent of active Android users were using it.

While that's little market share by any measure, it's significant given that Lollipop's adoption has been so slow that it failed to make any real impact in usage share stats for the first couple of months after its release.

This is partly attributed to the slow pace at which Android device manufacturers push out big updates. However, that number should increase in the coming weeks as numerous phones are set to receive the Android 5.0 update fairly soon including popular handsets from Motorola, HTC, Samsung and Sony (some have just got it, depending on your location).

Android 4.4 KitKat also gained share in the past month, increasing 0.6 percent to 39.7 percent. On the other hand, Jelly Bean (Android 4.1.x to 4.3), which is still the majority holder with 44.5 percent share, registered a cumulative decline of 1.5 percent.

Moving on, Gingerbread and Ice Cream Sandwich continued their slow but inevitable decline, losing 0.4 and 0.3 percent to remain at 7.4 and 6.4 percent, respectively, while the market share of Android 2.2 Froyo remained unchanged at 0.4 percent. It is worth noting that the data shared by Google reflects devices running the latest Google Play Store app, which is compatible with devices running Android 2.2 or higher.

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[Rippleman]

About 1.5 years ago, there was 5 of us in our family with nexus 4's. Since then, we all have got different phones except my mother. Finally 1 week ago, Lollipop came out for it.

 

[Guest]

It is worth noting that the data shared by Google reflects devices running the latest Google Play Store app

Just a reminder that this excludes devices based on AOSP that don't access Google services, like Amazon tablets and a huge share of the asian market.

 

[Skidmarksdeluxe]

So does this mean Eclair & Froyo users can expect an upgrade to Lollipop in the very near future to help bolster the numbers?

 

[Guest]

My iPad 2 from 2011, was just updated to the latest iOS release a few days ago. Just sayin'.

 

[gobbybobby]

My nexus 5 recently updated to the latest version whatever its called

my voice recognition lady has changed from the British voice to the American and there appears to be no way of changing it back

I am very very annoyed. I want to roll back but I fear thats not easily possible

 

[Guest]

I normally get told of updates available through my wifi at home.
For lollipop 5.0 it was only offered to me as an update when I ran Samsung Kies.
I own the S5...