Froyo comes in a comfortable second, despite slipping 2.6 percent points to 27.8% share. At this point most of the phones that were meant to get Gingerbread updates have already gotten those, so the Froyo share will probably only be influenced by new sales and phones reaching the end of their lives from now on.

Android 2.1 Eclair is the third most popular release of the platform – its market share diminished by 0.9 percent points, but 7.6% were enough for the bronze medal.

Honeycomb comes in next, its three revisions gaining just 0.1 percent point this month, but still securing 3.4% market share.

Android’s latest and greatest – 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is only the fifth most widespread release of the popular platform. Still, it gained 0.4 percent points of market share in January – not bad for a platform that’s only officially available on a couple of smartphones and one slate.

The Galaxy S Advance design is a mixture between the Galaxy S II and the Galaxy Nexus. You can clearly see that from the shots below.

In case you’ve missed our previous coverage, the Galaxy S Advance is positioned between the first and second generation Galaxy S phones. It packs a 4″ Super AMOLED WVGA display, a dual-core 1GHz processor and a 5 megapixel camera with HD video recording.The Galaxy S Advance is running on Android 2.3.6 Gingerbread, but we suppose it will get the Ice Cream Sandwich update soon after it launches this month.

The handsets that are reported to have this bug include the Desire HD, T-Mobile myTouch 4G, Desire S,Sensation, EVO 3D, DROID Incredible, and the Thunderbolt 4G. However, HTC is now reporting that the problem has already been solved on certain devices, although which ones exactly was not mentioned. It also said that the rest of the devices will require the update to be manually applied. The update is not yet available but HTC is requesting users to visit their website again next week for the update.

The bug was apparently discovered back in September 2011 by a couple of security researchers who then contacted HTC and Google, but was kept under wraps until now till the fix was deployed to a sizable number of the affected devices.

The Finns are really dedicated to own the next big thing from their favorite local company. Whether the good sales are dues to some kind of national pride, good advertising or pure love for the company – it doesn’t matter. The Lumia 800 is selling great, so it should turn out positive in the end of this quarter for Nokia.

As you may know, the Galaxy Nexus was still running on Android 4.0.2, which had a couple of issues and was also lacking a few things that were added in 4.0.3 that was released for the Nexus S. This new update brings the Galaxy Nexus up to speed and also changes some of the problems that the previous version had.

The people at xda-developers have compiled a list of changes in the new version, which they are constantly updating. Among the things that they have added so far includes:

• Faster performance.
• Android OS bug fixed (in battery stats)
• Improved 3G/4G switching.
• Improved signal strength.
• New Power Menu. New from 4.0.2, similar to the one on the 4.0.3 ROM.
• Faster boot-up time.
• Auto-brightness Functionality changed. Smoother transition.
• Holding down camera button now refocuses again.
• Multitouch issue seems resolved.
• Autorotate is faster.
• Browser performance noticeably improved.
• Recent apps list opens faster.
• Miscellaneous camera UI changes.

Despite talks of Symbian Carla and even Symbian Donna in the works for current and new devices alike, it now appears that the successor to the Nokia N8 might be the last new Symbian device we shall see from the Finns.

Nokia had originally promised continued support for Symbian following their plans to switch to Windows Phone as their primary OS last Mobile World Congress, with the intention of selling 150 million more Symbian devices before completely phasing the OS out.

It would seem their good intentions didn’t inspire enough Symbian fans out there and as such last month Nokia admitted that sales of Symbian devices were falling faster than they had anticipated (no doubt due in part to the aggressive promotion of Nokia Windows Phones).

Nokia’s CEO Stephen Elop blamed the lackluster figures on ever-changing and increasingly difficult market conditions, influenced in particular by the demand for lower cost smartphones.

“We now believe that we will sell fewer Symbian devices than we anticipated,” he explained.

Outside of the passionate Symbian fan base, Nokia’s move to hasten the demise of the platform also has implications for a number of key partners as well.

Accenture acquired some 3000 Symbian developers from the Finnish mobile giant last summer and it would appear that now such a resource will be seldom used. A particularly sticky situation for Accenture who’s agreement ties them into providing continued Symbian development until 2016.

ST Ericsson hinted at Nokia’s unstable Symbian sales figures in guidance to their investors issued last week. The company cited a “very significant decline” in net sales expected this quarter as a result of a “reduction, in the short term, of new product sales with one of our largest customers.

FOSS Patent‘s Florian Mueller says this is due to the injunction won in Manheimm by Motorola against Apple related to the FRAND patent. Coincidentally, Motorola won another permanent injunction against Apple related to iCloud in Germany on the same day but that is a completely different case and not related to these products being pulled from the stores.

The products are only being pulled from Apple’s online store in Germany and the brick and mortar stores will still have them in stock. This is because Motorola only sued the German subsidiary of Apple, which is only in charge of handling the online side of the sales.

Apple, meanwhile can still challenge this decision and get it suspended so that it can appeal in a higher court.

Our first design above comes to us again from John Anastasiadis, who revamped his amazingwrap around display concept phone to now include a slider. BlackBerry is known for having great physical keyboards, so John figured he’d try and work one per the request of many a CrackBerry Nation member. Note the dedicated BBM key on the keyboard! You can also a better sense for the whole device now, with a clear shot of the back of the device. A phone like this would definitely require some smart technology to make it work (disable the touch on the rear when just holding the phone), but hopefully phones like this will one day not be a dream.