Finally Fragmentation is Dying - Android 2.1 runs on 50% of the Devices

The efforts of Google to slow down the Fragmentation seems to be working now. A recent report shows that Android 2.1 a.k.a. Eclair leads the market with more than 50% of share.

An important point to note here is that this report presents data from the relative number of active devices over a period of two weeks. So, the version spectrum on the whole market share may differ but we can atleast be sure that the major version being actively used is Android 2.1.

Some other interesting results are the near-zero use of the Android 2.0.* series with nearly 0.4% share overall. Android 1.6 and 1.5 are still being used significantly with 25% and 24.6% share respectively. 

The best thing about this report is that the leader is the latest Android - Eclair, ofcourse don't expect Froyo to lead, its hardly a month since its release. Although we are still looking at three versions governing the Android active user market, just compare them with the previous data result, the figures have changed significantly.

After the release of Android 2.1, Google took nearly 5 months for the next release, with the basic aim to stop confusing Application developers. The 4 quick releases:

• Android 1.6 on 15th September
• Android 2.0 on 26th October
• Android 2.0.1 on 3rd December
• Android 2.1 in 12th January

were a big reason for Android 2.0.*'s sucky share. But with the present report its good to see things settle down. We can hope for more of Android 2.1 and 2.2 in such future reports.