Nine months ago Google released Froyo, its Android 2.2 update to its mobile platform OS. Back then we see very little devices running Froyo, but fast forward to 2011 and this version has been distributed quite widely by now.

61.3 percent of all active Android devices (handsets and tablets) worldwide are now running version 2.2, making it the most predominant iteration of the Android software version at the moment. Even more encouraging news is that, when taken together with Android 2.1, that group swells to account for more than 90 percent of active Google devices.

However, the result is still not pleasing, as 9 months have passed and the 29-percent devices that are still running Éclair are not getting Froyo updates, which is a clear fragmentation in the works. What’s more, there’s little hope that the 7-percent of Android devices running Android 1.5 and 1.6 will ever move along, though I believe that manufacturers have given up on updating them due to their hardware not able to transition smoothly to higher version Androids.

Hopefully manufacturers will continue to eliminate the existence of Éclair in this chart in the upcoming months by fully transiting all Éclair devices to Froyo. Even the transition to Gingerbread (Android 2.3) is rather slow, which is quite disappointing.

SOURCE via Android Developer