Most Popular Android Versions In January 2017 (Always Updated List)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><script async="" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- Large Rect --><br /><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3293628043854796" data-ad-slot="3517957869" style="display: inline-block; height: 280px; width: 336px;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div class="td-post-featured-image" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; width: 681px;"><a class="td-modal-image" data-caption="" href="https://fossbytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Most-Popular-Android-January-MAin.jpg" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1581c5; text-decoration: none !important;"><img alt="Most Popular Android January MAin" class="entry-thumb" height="360" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" src="https://fossbytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Most-Popular-Android-January-MAin-640x360.jpg" srcset="https://fossbytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Most-Popular-Android-January-MAin-640x360.jpg 640w, https://fossbytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Most-Popular-Android-January-MAin-300x169.jpg 300w, https://fossbytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Most-Popular-Android-January-MAin-768x432.jpg 768w, https://fossbytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Most-Popular-Android-January-MAin-747x420.jpg 747w, https://fossbytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Most-Popular-Android-January-MAin-681x383.jpg 681w, https://fossbytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Most-Popular-Android-January-MAin.jpg 900w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; left: -1px; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%; position: relative; z-index: 2;" title="Most Popular Android January MAin" width="640" /></a></div><div class="td-post-content td-pb-padding-side" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(252, 252, 252); border-left-color: rgb(252, 252, 252); border-right-color: rgb(252, 252, 252); border-top: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "PT Sans"; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px; padding: 10px 19px 0px 20px;"><div class="at-above-post addthis_default_style addthis_toolbox at-wordpress-hide" data-title="Most Popular Android Versions In January 2017 (Always Updated List)" data-url="https://fossbytes.com/most-popular-android-versions-always-updated/" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 24px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Short Bytes:</strong> Every month, Google releases the Android versions usage share data on its developer portal. This data can give us a rough estimate of the most popular Android versions for the month. According to the Android usage share for January, Android Lollipop is still the most popular versions of the Android operating system.</em></div><span class="su-dropcap su-dropcap-style-flat" style="background: rgb(68 , 68 , 68); box-sizing: border-box; color: white; display: inline-block; float: left; font-size: 2em; height: 2em; line-height: 2em; margin: 0.2em 0.5em 0.2em 0px; overflow: hidden; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase; width: 2em;">T</span>he Android operating system is the most used, in fact, almost omnipresent in the mobile ecosystem. Even the Android versions like Nougat, Marshmallow, Lollipop and more have been able to build their individual fan following. <script async="" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- Banner-Tech --><br /><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3293628043854796" data-ad-format="auto" data-ad-slot="9496465867" style="display: block;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 24px;"></div><div class="ad-inserter ad-inserter-9" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 8px auto; text-align: center;"><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7669788327297386" data-ad-slot="5042529352" data-adsbygoogle-status="done" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 280px; text-decoration: none; width: 336px;"><ins id="aswift_2_expand" style="background: transparent; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-table; height: 280px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; visibility: visible; width: 336px;"><ins id="aswift_2_anchor" style="background: transparent; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 280px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; visibility: visible; width: 336px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="280" hspace="0" id="aswift_2" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" name="aswift_2" scrolling="no" style="box-sizing: border-box; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px;" vspace="0" width="336"></iframe><span style="color: #222222; text-align: left;">Google is very punctual in releasing the market of these Android versions on a monthly basis. This data gets uploaded on their developer portal. It helps the developers prioritize their resources for widely used Android version, rather than wasting them on near out-of-date Android versions.</span></ins></ins></ins></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 24px;">To get estimated values of Android usage share, Google keeps an eye on active Android versions in the first week of every month. Here are the most popular Android versions for the month of January.</div><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 27px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.02em; line-height: 38px; margin: 30px 0px 20px;">Most Popular Android Versions January 2017</h2><table class="tg" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; width: 640px;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><th class="tg-yw4l" style="border: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 2px 8px; text-align: left;">Android Name</th><th class="tg-yw4l" style="border: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 2px 8px; text-align: left;">Android Version</th><th class="tg-yw4l" style="border: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 2px 8px; text-align: left;">Usage Share</th></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="tg-yw4l" style="border: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 2px 8px;">Lollipop</td><td class="tg-yw4l" style="border: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 2px 8px;">5.0, 5.1</td><td class="tg-yw4l" style="border: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 2px 8px;">33.4%</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="tg-yw4l" style="border: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 2px 8px;">Marshmallow</td><td class="tg-yw4l" style="border: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 2px 8px;">6.0</td><td class="tg-yw4l" style="border: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 2px 8px;">29.6%</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="tg-yw4l" style="border: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 2px 8px;">KitKat</td><td class="tg-yw4l" style="border: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 2px 8px;">4.4</td><td class="tg-yw4l" style="border: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 2px 8px;">22.6%</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="tg-yw4l" style="border: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 2px 8px;">Jelly Bean</td><td class="tg-yw4l" style="border: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 2px 8px;">4.1.x, 4.2.x, 4.3</td><td class="tg-yw4l" style="border: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 2px 8px;">11.6%</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="tg-yw4l" style="border: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 2px 8px;">Ice Cream Sandwich</td><td class="tg-yw4l" style="border: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 2px 8px;">4.0.3 to 4.0.4</td><td class="tg-yw4l" style="border: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 2px 8px;">1.1%</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="tg-yw4l" style="border: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 2px 8px;">Gingerbread</td><td class="tg-yw4l" style="border: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 2px 8px;">2.3.3 to 2.3.7</td><td class="tg-yw4l" style="border: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 2px 8px;">1.0%</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="tg-yw4l" style="border: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 2px 8px;">Nougat</td><td class="tg-yw4l" style="border: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 2px 8px;">7.0, 7.1</td><td class="tg-yw4l" style="border: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 2px 8px;">0.7%</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 24px;">The latest Android Nougat was released in August 2016. It is yet to arrive on many Android devices and achieve a considerable usage share in comparison to other Android versions. A lot has changed since the last time I wrote about this list on Fossbytes. Android Froyo 2.2 – discontinued in 2011 – has been removed from the list.</div><script async="" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- Link2 --><br /><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3293628043854796" data-ad-format="link" data-ad-slot="1088881865" style="display: block;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 24px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Note:</strong> The Android usage share for various Android versions have been clubbed according to their codename. You can visit Google’s developer portal to know the usage share for individual Android versions.</em></div></div></div><script async="" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- techavengers_main_Blog1_728x90_as --><br /><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3293628043854796" data-ad-slot="2711352664" style="display: inline-block; height: 90px; width: 728px;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div>

Most Popular Android Versions In January 2017 (Always Updated List)

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Nokia Just Launched Its Own Voice Assistant “MIKA” For Some Special Purpose

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><script async="" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- techavengers_main_Blog1_1x1_as --><br /><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3293628043854796" data-ad-format="auto" data-ad-slot="1611599468" style="display: block;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div class="td-post-featured-image" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; width: 681px;"><a class="td-modal-image" data-caption="" href="https://fossbytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Nokia-MIKA-Digital-Assistant.jpg" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1581c5; text-decoration: none !important;"><img alt="Nokia MIKA Digital Assistant" class="entry-thumb" height="360" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" src="https://fossbytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Nokia-MIKA-Digital-Assistant-640x360.jpg" srcset="https://fossbytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Nokia-MIKA-Digital-Assistant-640x360.jpg 640w, https://fossbytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Nokia-MIKA-Digital-Assistant-300x169.jpg 300w, https://fossbytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Nokia-MIKA-Digital-Assistant-768x432.jpg 768w, https://fossbytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Nokia-MIKA-Digital-Assistant-747x420.jpg 747w, https://fossbytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Nokia-MIKA-Digital-Assistant-681x383.jpg 681w, https://fossbytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Nokia-MIKA-Digital-Assistant.jpg 900w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; left: -1px; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%; position: relative; z-index: 2;" title="Nokia MIKA Digital Assistant" width="640" /></a></div><div class="td-post-content td-pb-padding-side" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(252, 252, 252); border-left-color: rgb(252, 252, 252); border-right-color: rgb(252, 252, 252); border-top: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "PT Sans"; font-size: 17px; line-height: 30px; padding: 10px 19px 0px 20px;"><div class="at-above-post addthis_default_style addthis_toolbox at-wordpress-hide" data-title="Nokia Just Launched Its Own Voice Assistant “MIKA” For Some Special Purpose" data-url="https://fossbytes.com/nokia-mika-digital-assistant-telecom/" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><script async="" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- link --><br /><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3293628043854796" data-ad-slot="6581319060" style="display: inline-block; height: 90px; width: 180px;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 24px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Short Bytes:</strong> At this year’s Mobile World Congress, Nokia will demonstrate their new digital assistant called MIKA or Multi-purpose Intuitive Knowledge Assistant. Not a regular voice assistant like Siri, Cortana, and Alexa, MIKA is specially crafted for the telecommunication sector where it will be able to help the engineers with voice-activated access to information and save their time.</em></div><span class="su-dropcap su-dropcap-style-flat" style="background: rgb(68 , 68 , 68); box-sizing: border-box; color: white; display: inline-block; float: left; font-size: 2em; height: 2em; line-height: 2em; margin: 0.2em 0.5em 0.2em 0px; overflow: hidden; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase; width: 2em;">W</span>e recently heard about Nokia with the launch of the Nokia 6 smartphone, but it is a work of HMD Global carrying the Nokia brand name. The original Nokia has been living a low profile since it sold its smartphone business to Microsoft. However, last year, the company made news with some internet speed records and lawsuits against Apple.<br /><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 24px;"></div><div class="ad-inserter ad-inserter-9" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 8px auto; text-align: center;"><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7669788327297386" data-ad-slot="5042529352" data-adsbygoogle-status="done" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 280px; text-decoration: none; width: 336px;"><ins id="aswift_1_expand" style="background: transparent; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-table; height: 280px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; visibility: visible; width: 336px;"><ins id="aswift_1_anchor" style="background: transparent; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 280px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; visibility: visible; width: 336px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="280" hspace="0" id="aswift_1" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" name="aswift_1" scrolling="no" style="box-sizing: border-box; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px;" vspace="0" width="336"></iframe><span style="color: #222222; text-align: left;">In 2017, Nokia has arrived with</span><span style="color: #222222; text-align: left;"> </span><a href="https://www.nokia.com/en_int/news/releases/2017/01/27/nokia-launches-mika-the-first-digital-assistant-customized-for-telecommunications-operators" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1581c5; text-align: left; text-decoration: none !important;">something new</a><span style="color: #222222; text-align: left;">, a voice-activated digital assistant. Although, it is not something we haven’t seen in the past. The digital assistant, known as MIKA (Multi-Purpose Intuitive Knowledge Assistant), is designed with a different utility in mind.</span><span style="color: #222222; text-align: left;">Instead of being a commercial voice assistant for everyday users to make online bookings and play music, MIKA will be used by engineers and operators in the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; text-align: left;">telecom sector. It will help them access information using voice commands reducing their focus on less important things.</span></ins></ins></ins></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 24px;"><br /></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 24px;"><br /></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 24px;">Nokia AVA, a cognitive service platform, is the driving force behind MIKA. The digital assistant leverages augmented intelligence and automated learning. It facilitates a plethora of tools, documents, and data sources. MIKA – accessible on web and mobile – can suggest network problem solutions based on what it has observed on other networks.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 24px;">Nokia notes that their digital assistant can save around an hour of productive time in a day. The company is prepared to demonstrate their ambitious digital assistant tech at the Mobile World Congress 2017.</div></div></div><script async="" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- link --><br /><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3293628043854796" data-ad-slot="6581319060" style="display: inline-block; height: 90px; width: 180px;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div><br></br><div class="fb-comments" data-href="https://techavengers.blogspot.com/" data-width="550" data-numposts="10"></div>

Nokia Just Launched Its Own Voice Assistant “MIKA” For Some Special Purpose

Short Bytes:  At this year’s Mobile World Congress, Nokia will demonstrate their new digital assistant called MIKA or Multi-purpose Intuit...

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