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.

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The article is based on the real experience in development of a certain mobile application which uses barcodes.

What are barcodes?

According to wikipedia.org, barcode – is " a sequence of black and white stripes, representing some of the information in a form, suitable for reading by technical means. There are several types: linear (conventional) – known as bar codes which are read in one direction (horizontally); 2 dimensional (2D barcodes) – known as symbols, designed to encode large amounts of information". The first can be seen on any product in the store, while the latter can be found in promotional flyers, business cards, magazines.
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