Google's Android mobile phone stack will end up fragmented into multiple versions, Symbian's research chief has claimed. "The reason the code will change is that people will have different ...

While Google has moved to cure the much-maligned Android fragmentation problem, there are more Android devices than ever out there in the wild, according to data from OpenSignal. The problem? Too many ...

Android is growing at a phenomenal rate thanks in part to the many hardware options available to phone shoppers. Now Android is at an inflection point, with both phones and tablets on the market. With ...

The rallying cry of Android doubters since the platform began taking off has been "fragmentation." We were told Android was too fragmented to succeed, but here we are with it as the top mobile ...

Every month or so, we hear someone bleat about how fragmented the Android market has become, how Google has ceded control of Android to the device manufacturers, and how writing and testing Android ...

Rapid growth in the Google-backed Android mobile phone OS puts the platform at risk of fragmentation, an analyst study said this week. Android shipped more than 6 million handsets last year and is ...

One of the controversial comments Steve Jobs made (does the man really make too many other kinds of comments?) during Apple’s last financials call about Android excoriated the platform and its ...

Will was the Phones Editor at Android Police from August 2022 to May 2025, which usually meant his desk was covered in a dozen different smartphones at any given time. Prior to that, he was a news ...

Android publisher Animoca has responded to claims Google's OS is saddled by fragmentation by talking up the benefits of the range of handsets that support the platform. Speaking in reply to the furore ...

The fragmentation situations of Android and iOS couldn’t be any more different — or more embarrassing for Google. Aping Google, Apple has finally started charting the state of iOS fragmentation on its ...

The latest non-news posted on the front page about honeycomb release date and the WP7 thread started some good discussions on Android fragmentation. I came across this blog post by computerworld which ...

It has been said over and again that Android’s biggest strength is their weakness. For being so open, Android allows the manufacturer and even the carriers to make modifications to the OS or ...