Android usage stats as of December 1, 2011 A new month, a new Android usage stats report from Google. Android 2.3.3-2.3.7 Gingerbread is currently the most popular Android version with a share of 50.1%. Android 2.2 Froyo comes in second with a share of 35.3%. What does come as a little surprise is the fact that Android 2.1 Eclair is still the third most popular out there...

ZTE Blade S The never-ending saga of ‘S’-phones continues again. This time we have ZTE joining in on the S-naming, with their Blade series getting an S-member. The ZTE Blade S is the same device that was last week revealed by Orange and by them called the San Francisco II. The new Blade S naming was found by sniffing around Bluetooth SIG records. The ZTE Blade...

LG just informed via their official Facebook page that they’ve started updating Optimus 2X devices with Android 2.3 Gingerbread. The post indicates that the update is now live in some regions, but doesn’t really specify where this is. ...

And the announcements don’t seem to stop here yet! LG is the third manufacturer to show a new device today, with the announcement of the LG Optimus EX. It is the first smartphone to come with the updated NVIDIA Tegra 2 chip running at a clock speed of 1.2GHz. This enables the Android 2.3 powered device to show videos at 1080p! Another great feature is the display,...

The graph above shows pretty well which manufacturers provide updates to their device’s, and which don’t. HTC is the king with 13 devices running Android 2.3. Samsung again has the most devices running Android 2.1, and 2.2. Keep in mind that Samsung has the largest armada of devices out there, so they also have to do a lot of work to bring updates to their...

Motorola is currently pushing out Android 2.3 (update 1.3.232.en.US) for Droid X2 devices out there. Users can manually initiate the update process by going in the phone’s settings menu, and triggering the update from there. After this you should be presented with an update prompt. Just follow the on-screen instructions from there. Fire up the update and enjoy Droid...

Check out this video of a Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 running the recently released Android 2.3 Gingerbread firmware. Features Overview:Retains Camera UI as in the Éclair version. Facebook inside Xperia™ Homescreen Overview gesture Wi-Fi & USB tethering App storage on SD-card Horizontal app tray Media experience widgets Integrated equalizer in Music Player Ability...

Mattias just posted on the official Sony Ericsson blog that the Xperia X10 Gingerbread update is now going out to generic trade kits (not carrier customized)! Here is the blogpost in question: Hi, We are pleased to confirm that the roll out of the software scripts for the Gingerbread upgrade for Xperia X10 has started as of today. The specifications of the upgrade can...