Newer versions of Android are slowly picking up steam, but Gingerbread is still hanging on and can be found on almost 56 percent of all Android-based devices.

Newer versions of Android are slowly picking up steam, but Gingerbread is still hanging on and can be found on almost 56 percent of all Android-based devices.

According to stats released yesterday, only about 1.8 percent of Android devices are running the most recent version of the mobile OS, Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. About 23.7 percent of gadgets now have Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

That's up slightly from last month, when ICS had 20.9 percent of the market and Jelly Bean had 1.2 percent. Gingerbread dipped a bit from 57.5 percent in September, but still dominates.

The tablet-centric Android Honeycomb barely edged out Jelly Bean with 1.9 percent of the market as of Oct. 1.

The move comes shortly after that its Atrix 4G, Photon 4G, and Electrify will not be upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. HTC today, however, revealed that its HTC One S and One X will get the Jelly Bean treatment at some point this month.

A recent survey from Appcelerator and IDC revealed that the majority of mobile app developers than Android, RIM, or Windows. Those shying away from Android cited fragmentation as one of the reasons. For more on that, see .

Apple recently released iOS 6 and within hours, were using the upgraded OS, according to early stats. Apple, however, only offers the iPhone and controls the updates itself, whereas multiple handset makers offer Android devices and those upgrades are in the hands of the carriers.

For more, see PCMag's reviews of and , as well as the slideshow below.