Ice Cream Sandwich grows 50% in latest Android platform stats

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Google has released the latest breakdown of Android versions, with Ice Cream Sandwich continuing its slow penetration into handsets while Jelly Bean remains fledgling at best. The figures, based on active Android devices using the Play store within the past two weeks, confirm that 2.3 Gingerbread remains the most commonly used version of the open-source OS, with over 60-percent of installs.

Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0.x, meanwhile, is now almost at 16-percent of installs. That’s a rise of around 50-percent compared to a month ago, though with Jelly Bean’s release on the Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 7, the goalposts for running the most current OS version have been moved once again.

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