Background
On October’12 TweetDeck published statistics for Android devices and OS versions gathered from their users. They collected the information about more than 35 thousands Android devices which run their twitter client. You can see their extremely interesting statistics here: http://blog.tweetdeck.com/android-ecosystem.
We decided to continue their investigations and fulfill the statistics with some data regarding screen resolution, memory and CPU timing of the devices listed. We gathered detailed information about top 50 devices with the highest number of users. We get the information about mobile devices from http://pdadb.net. You can see the details below.
Screen resolution breakdown
The table and chart below shows the share of each resolution based on user number. In the chart labels you can see three lines: screen resolution, number of users who use this resolution and the percent of this resolution.
You can see that the most of devices has 480×800 and 480×854 screen resolution and only 16% has 320×240. Other resolutions are insignificant.
Android Screen Resolution Breakdown
ResolutionUser #
| 480 x 800 | 18585 |
| 480 x 854 | 9235 |
| 320 x 480 | 5373 |
| 240 x 320 | 837 |
| 960 x 480 | 99 |
| Total | 34129 |
CPU Breakdown
Most devices have 1GHz processor however there are still 30% of them with 500-600MHz.
Android CPU Breakdown
CPU (MHz)User #
| 1000 | 23025 |
| 600 | 5731 |
| 528 | 4422 |
| 800 | 885 |
| 720 | 66 |
| Total | 34129 |
RAM Breakdown
Ram size has much more varieties than CPU and Screen resolution. It varies from 192 Mb for T-Mobile G1 to 576 Mb for HTC Desire. There are also some models with no information about RAM size (marked blank).
Android RAM Breakdown
RAM (MHz)User #
| 512 | 15346 |
| 256 | 5924 |
| 576 | 5152 |
| 288 | 3178 |
| 384 | 2547 |
| 326 | 1259 |
| 192 | 521 |
| 448 | 103 |
| (blank) | 99 |
| Total | 34129 |
Conclusion
This statistics is limited by the data provided by TweetDeck and may not reflect the whole market. However it is rather completed to represent the situation on the US market.
It may be used by Android application developers or mobile web site designers. We used it to plan the most possible configuration for future Android projects by Enterra, Inc.
Finally I’d like to thank TweetDeck Team for sharing their statistics. One more time: thank you, guys. It’s really useful.
| Resolution | User # |
| 480 x 800 | 18585 |
| 480 x 854 | 9235 |
| 320 x 480 | 5373 |
| 240 x 320 | 837 |
| 960 x 480 | 99 |
| Total | 34129 |
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This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 27th, 2010 at 10:49 am and is filed under Android, Mobile.
