14 DAY TRIAL // More and more devices running under Android are being activated each and every day, showing that Google's mobile operating system is actually gaining momentum, the comany unveiled today. The number of new devices being activated is four times larger that last year and, with Symbian out of the way, Android is getting ready to become the leading platform on the smartphone market.
Currently, the company is activating 400,000 devices per day, Huge Barra, Product Management Director for Android, announced during the Google I/O developer conference.
This time last year, Google registered only 100,000 daily activations, while their number was of 200,000 as of August 2010. And the growth does not seem to slow down, on the contrary.
Google also unveiled that they already activated over 100 million Android devices, and that there are 310 such products available for purchase in a number of 112 countries around the world.
At the moment, Android is supported by a number of 36 OEMs globally, along with 215 carriers, and 450,000 mobile application developers.
Also in the mobile software area, Google announced that there are around 200,000 applications available for download via the Android Market.
These apps already registered over 4.5 billion installs, and the rate is accelerating, Google claims. The last billion was registered in about 60 days.
A few days ago, Google unveiled that the Android 2.2 Froyo platform was present on the largest number of active handsets / tablets, but that might change soon.
Newer, more appealing devices are being released on shelves, and many of them run under the Android 2.3 Gingerbread platform, or under the Android Honeycomb OS flavor, designed mainly for tablet PCs.
Newer versions of Android are also set to land in the near future, the company announced: Android 3.1 Honeycomb arrives on Motorola XOOM tablets today, for example.
The Android platform is expected to grow even more in the following years, and Google would do all that it can to make sure the momentum continues. Two new services have been launched for that, namely Movie Rentals and Google Music.