Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean get a big bump from the holidays

Android market share numbers for the end of December have just gone up on the Android Developers site, and the story is much the same as it was last month: Android 4.0, 4.1, and 4.2 continue to gain ground over older versions of the software. Version 2.3, codenamed Gingerbread, still powers the majority of the Android devices that accessed Google Play in the last two weeks of December, but its share has finally fallen below 50 percent (it now sits at 47.4 percent, down from 50.7 percent last month).