14 DAY TRIAL // During their Q1 earnings call, Mountain View-based Google unveiled some more info on how the company's mobile operating system, Android, is doing at the moment.
The numbers are looking very encouraging for enthusiasts, as Google’s Jeff Huber confirmed that the company is currently activating a number of more than 350,000 handsets each and every day.
During the past few months, the number of phones activated daily increased by 50k, up from the number of 300,000 Android-based devices that used to be activated back in December.
Moreover, it appears that Android users are increasingly application hungry, since Google also announced that the number of software installed on devices has increased to 3 billion.
This number is 50 percent higher than in the fourth quarter of the last year.
These figures show that the mobile platform is becoming increasingly popular on the market, although it still lags behind other platforms.
However, some of the latest analyst estimates suggested that Android would be able to become the leading mobile platform in no time.
According to some of them, Google's Android OS would take the lead on the smartphone market before the end of the ongoing year, while reaching about half of the market in five years or so.
Other research reports are also pointing towards the fact that Android would take over 40 percent market share in 2015-2016.
One thing that Google's mobile platform would greatly benefit from would be the death of Symbian, and its replacing on Nokia devices with Microsoft's Windows Phone platform.
The transition would take some years, yet it is not expected to push Windows Phone on the first position on the market, where Symbian is at the moment.
Android, on the other hand, is expected to continue its impressive growth, helped by various industry players. Android daily activations grew from 200k last August to 350k now, and the momentum would continue, it seems.