Android Device Ecosystem Slowly Taking Over The World – What Google is Planning For?

A new report on growing Android ecosystem by crowd sourced cell phone signal startup OpenSignal has been visualized and it comes to know that more than 682,000 devices to build its annual peek at Google’s mobile OS ecosystem. Recently, OpenSignal has dropped some of its attention on it with its 2014 Android fragmentation report.

OpenSignal on Android –

As we all know that OpenSignal is one such company that behind the eponymous app, which develops maps of mobile phone network coverage based on information crowdsourced from different smart-phone users. For quite some time now, it is obtainable on Android already, but finally it also launched a version of iPhone users in the year 2013.

Currently, OpenSignal is one of the biggest independent sources of data on the speed as well as coverage of mobile phone across the world. OpenSignal is well-known for gathering information from users and open it to anyone instead of relying on coverage maps offered by the networks. Through this, they can easily see that which one offers the best coverage where they are.

OpenSignal’s by-product of this is garnering various extra data, which provides important imminent into the state-of-play across the mobile kingdom. When it comes to such things, it comprises things like 4G coverage and the number of different device-types. It has seen 18796 ‘different Android devices’ as per the OpenSignal’s data and it is up from 11868 compared to last year.

In order to collect this information, the company has surveyed the last 682000 devices to install the app so that it will be easy and fairly representative of the Android ecosystem. But it is also sure that this number would naturally increase as there are various new Android devices that have been launched in the last 12 months. Well, it is also true that already obtainable devices are not going to vanish from the earth.

You may feel surprisingly after knowing that Samsung is ruling the Android world as the company dominate the market with 43%, while Sony stands at second with a mere 4% that helps show the gulf between Samsung and the rest. Well, other companies like Motorola, Huawei and LG were also among the next most popular android handsets. According to OpenSignal’s information, approximately 12 out of the 13 most common android devices are from Samsung.

The company also together data from both the companies Google and Apple offering complete glance of the state-of-play. Approximately, 20.9% of Android users are on KitKat (4.4), and most of the android users are on at least Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0) and very least preserving with Gingerbread or Froyo.

As per the Apple’s own data, iOS 7 sits at 91% while iOS 6 at 8% and measly 1% people are still using an old-fashioned incarnation of Apple’s mobile operating system. Well, OpenSignal’s report makes for interesting reading and pulls on some extra existing data offered by third-party sources, comprising the correlation between fragmentation and GDP per capita.

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