Android has come fairly a great distance from its early days. Nonetheless, regardless of the progress Google has made to enhance and pace up updates, there are nonetheless quite a lot of totally different variations of the cell OS at the moment in use. And regardless of the Android 13 rollout persevering with for the reason that second half of 2022, its distribution nonetheless falls beneath different variations.
With that in thoughts, we need to know which model of Android your present smartphone is on. (We did not embody Android 14 as a result of it is at the moment simply in beta and solely accessible on choose Pixel smartphones).
An increasing number of Android telephones are launching with Android 13, and it looks like a ton of telephones have obtained the replace. That is most likely as a result of Samsung has accomplished a very good job updating its large lineup of smartphones over the previous a number of months. Nonetheless, regardless of that, Android 13 solely has a 12.1% distribution throughout energetic Android variations, in response to Android Studio (through 9to5Google).
That share is beneath Android 12 (16.5%), Android 10 (18.5%), and Android 11, which is at the moment essentially the most broadly used model as of April 2023, sitting fairly with a sizeable 23.5% share of the pie. That mentioned, Android 13 seems to be rising quick, as its distribution has apparently doubled within the final three months.
Considerably surprisingly, even older variations of Android are nonetheless in use, as proven on the distribution chart.
In fact, not all the gadgets operating Android are telephones. And it is probably that many of those older gadgets are not supported. Android OEMs weren’t superb at providing long-term software program assist, particularly when it got here to low-cost Android telephones. Nonetheless, that is beginning to change, with firms like Samsung, OnePlus, Xiaomi, and others extending their assist guarantees to replace telephones via a number of OS variations and several other years of software program updates.
Even Motorola, which nonetheless tends to fall behind the pack, has began getting higher at providing longer software program assist. LG has additionally stored its promise and rolled out Android 13 to its 2020 flagship telephones, together with the LG Wing.
Are you continue to ready to get the most recent model of Android in your telephone? Are you on an excellent older model of Android? Drop a remark and tell us.
