Samsung announces the Galaxy Victory 4G LTE for Sprint

Samsung has announced the new Galaxy Victory 4G LTE for Sprint, continuing their tradition of releasing phones that have ridiculously long name for no good reason.

Other than that enormous name, the Galaxy Victory 4G LTE for Sprint also has a 4-inch, 800 x 480 resolution display, 1.2GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor, 4GB internal memory with microSD card slot, 5 megapixel rear camera with LED flash, 1.3 megapixel front camera, NFC with Google Wallet support, Samsung's S Voice and S Beam for voice search and transferring files wirelessly respectively, 2,100mAh battery and Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich.

The phone will be sold on Sprint's network for $99 with a $50 mail-in rebate starting September 16.

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Jelly Bean user base now stands at 1.2 percent

Continuing their monthly tradition, Google has released the Android distribution figures, which lets us take a look at how the various versions of Android are doing.

Looking at the chart above we can see that Jelly Bean percentage has risen from 0.8% last month to 1.2%, disappointing but not surprising considering how few devices are running this right now. Ice Cream Sandwich has grown from 15.9% to 20.9%, which is pretty good.

Unfortunately, still a staggering 57.5% of Android users are on Gingerbread, down from 60.6% last month, and 18.3% users are on an even older version of Android.

Other stats show that a massive number of Android users still prefer devices that fall in the Normal display size, that is around the 4-inch mark, with hdpi resolution, that is between 200-300 ppi.

You can find the complete details in the link below.

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