24-percent of Android users are now using Gingerbread 2.3

According to Google latest report based on the number of Android devices that have accessed Android Market within a 14-day period till August 1, 24.3 percent of Android users are now running on Gingerbread-based devices. Froyo, however, continues to have the majority of the stake, with 55.9 percent of the total Android users. Although the adoption to Gingerbread by OEMs happened a lot faster compared to the previous versions it seems its not fast enough as a lot of users are still stuck on the older version.

Looking at the historical distribution from February 2011 to August 2011, we can see that Gingerbread user base only started picking up around May 2011. However, the Froyo user base remains almost identical to what it was in February, its just that the usage of the older versions such as 2.1 has dropped significantly.

Meanwhile, Android Honeycomb-based devices are not doing so well. With only 1.3 percent of the total Android users who access the Market there clearly are not enough Android Honeycomb-based tablets out there, despite being in existence for almost six months now.