[Honor 5X Guides, News, & Discussion] shashank1320:
Going through Social media, forums, I always comes across different set of people/users/readers. Many of them simply ask for updates and wait but many, on the other side, shouts and show their anger on social media and forums and blame the device manufacturer and their developers for not providing the marshmallow(or rather updates) on time or as promised. Same is the case with HONOR users, sometimes. We are still far ahead of others because we have the beta versions or stable version for some devices and we can expect that we will get the stable Marshmallow for all devices soon and Android Nougat soon.

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How many phones are actually running on Marshmallow Or rather any android version? Well, you are at the right place to look for this information. Read on.

With endless resources and number of employees at its disposal, itâ??s hard to believe that Google is still struggling to get a majority of Android users on to a single platform version. And yet, ten months after the launch of Android 6.0 Marshmallow, only about 20% of Android devices have been updated (includes unofficial custom and stock versions)

Numbers are out for the month of September 1st week and Marshmallow has finally reached near the 20% figure with 18.7% market share compared to other Android versions. By the end of year 2015, Kitkat was the clear winner with the largest share even though there were two versions of Lollipop i.e. 5.0 and 5.1 but still Kitkat was leading with 37.80% of the market share compared with combined 35.60% of Lollipop (15.5% for version 5 and 10.10% for version 5.1).

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But the market is changed now with lot of new devices launching every now and then with Lollipop, then the latest version, thus making the lollipop to the top of this list with 35% compared to 27.6% of kitkat and few with marshmallow out of the box. With so many devices around, not all users have still tasted the Lollipop, forget about the Marshmallow and the latest Nougat. Marshmallow share was around 7.5% as of May 2016 which has risen up to 10.1% in June 2016 (yeah, into the double digit mark for the 1st time since launch). Marshmallow was unveiled in May 2015, almost a year back, at Google I/O under the codename "Android Mâ?, it was officially released in October 2015 and was able to surpass the Froyo (android 2.2) market share during December 2015, Froyo had the market share of only .20% in December 2015. (Marshmallow surpassing Froyo? Yeah you read it right, not sure how many of you even know about this android 2.2 version by name).

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So Marshmallow has touched the double figure mark, in May, for the market share but Google has made next to no progress on its fragmentation problem, making this entire situation even more awful is the fact that Google has just announced the next version of Android at its annual Google I/O developerâ??s conference on May 18th and unveiled the latest Android 7 with name Nougat on June 30th, 2016. Unless Google has a plan to deal with fragmentation once and for all, the issue is only going to get worse hereafter.

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