According to the estimates of the company OpenSignal, this year, the Android operating system installed on more than 24 thousand of models of mobile devices. For comparison, last year the figure was 18.7 thousand, and in 2013-m — 11.6 thousand Largest share among them belongs to Samsung (250 models), which captured 37,6% of the market (based on 682 thousand analyzed devices).

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According to the estimates of the company OpenSignal, this year, the Android operating system installed on more than 24 thousand of models of mobile devices. For comparison, last year the figure was 18.7 thousand, and in 2013-m — 11.6 thousand Largest share among them belongs to Samsung (250 models), which captured 37,6% of the market (based on 682 thousand analyzed devices).

As the authors of the study, there is an increasing number of different models of Android devices, each of which has its own characteristics. Share Samsung remains beyond the reach of competitors, and the position of producers in the top three is unchanged: it is followed by LG and Sony. Fourth place was won by Motorola, but Huawei, according to OpenSignal, dropped from fifth to 10th place.

Remains of the complexity and fragmentation of the OS, but the most popular is already outdated Android KitKat (4.4), second place — Jelly Bean (4.1—4.3), Lollipop (5.0—5.1) — only in third place. For comparison, the latest version of iOS uses 85% of Apple smartphones. However, it is necessary to take into account the fact that the iPhone maker is one company, and Android smartphones — all desires.