14 DAY TRIAL // Google's Android operating system is rocking the party, that's for sure. With 550,000 new devices being activated each and every day
, the mobile platform is in full swing towards becoming the king of the global smartphone market.
With Symbian going down fast, the only way for Android to go is up, and it would keep on growing in the future as well, since there is little competition it would face at the moment on the market.
Sales of Android devices are going up, with the newer flavors of the platform being loaded on more and more devices, and with an increasing number of applications available for download via the Android Market.
Users who access the storefront will find there applications in excess of 250,000, Susan Wojcicki, senior VP of Advertising, reportedly unveiled.
For comparison purposes, we should note that the platform had only 100,000 applications on October 2010, two years after its release.
However, the Android Market still trails the Apple App Store, though it might become the leading mobile software portal soon.
The number of application downloads from the storefront is increasing fast as well, with over 6 billion for them registered at the moment (six times higher than what RIM announced a few days ago for its BlackBerry App World).
Earlier this week, Google announced the availability of a new Android Market for handsets running under its mobile OS, offering users the possibility to access books and movies while on the go, in addition to the applications and games that were already there to download.
In addition to mobile phones, the Android platform is also available on tablet PCs, something that lead to fragmentation, as the latest Android distribution charts show. The OS was loaded so far on a little over 130 million devices.
However, this issue should be solved as soon as the next flavor of Android arrives, namely Ice Cream Sandwich, as it would be fit for both the small and for the large screens that devices sport today.