Mobile Screen Sizes 2013

This is a quick post about the number of distinct mobile devices - a summary of the article over at OpenSignal.com about Android Fragmentation.
The current number of distinct android devices has risen from 3,997 in 2012 to 11,868 in 2013.

That's  a massive range of screen size and operating systems to consider (just from android phones!).

Have a look at this simple graphic showing the different screen sizes:
This graphic is interactive over at http://opensignal.com/reports/fragmentation-2013/ 

The problem is that developing apps to work across this full range can be challenging, on the other hand android has a bigger global reach than iOS and potentially a lot more customers.

There is no way you can test on all eleven thousand varieties!!  Is it time for HTML5 web standards as the way forward?

You can download a PDF of the report here..
http://opensignal.com/reports/fragmentation-2013/fragmentation-2013.pdf

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