Yup, even the entry-level Nokia 1 has been updated to Android Pie recently

Despite Google’s best efforts, the Android fragmentation scourge is pretty much as bad as always. So bad, in fact, that the platform’s official distribution numbers were only refreshed once this year rather than once every month, with a measly 10.4 percent of active devices running the latest OS version as of the beginning of May.

These scores include both devices launched with Android 9.0 software pre-installed and phones updated to the newest stable OS build in the last 12 months, mind you, which explains why Samsung and Xiaomi rank so high. When looking only at upgrades, however, Samsung’s figure drops to a modest 23 percent as far as what chunk of its portfolio is running the latest Android version one year in.

Otherwise put, 89 percent of Galaxy devices sold in the last 12 months come with Android Pie, but that number falls to a measly 23 percent when talking about all Samsung phones currently in circulation. Nokia comfortably leads the latter rankings as well, at a mind-blowing 94 percent, followed by Xiaomi with 62 percent, Lenovo with 52, and Huawei with 40 percentage points. 

LG is a major (but largely predictable) disappointment in both parts of this very interesting Counterpoint Research analysis, while OnePlus is unfortunately excluded from the report, which focuses on the world’s ten largest smartphone vendors.