Google adding 300K Android phones a day
The Androids just keep on coming
It may have taken its time to get up and running, but the Android invasion – it seems – is now all but unstoppable.
According to a tweet for Google’s Andy Rubin, the platform is now racking up 300,000 new users worldwide every single day – that works out to the equivalent of more than 100 million a year.
That comfortably eclipses bitter smartphone rival Apple, which has reported iOS activations of 270,000 a day, but that figure also includes not only iPhone activations, but iPads too.
Rubin was part of the original Android Inc team that Google acquired back in 2005 ahead of the OS’ full launch three years later, and presided over the launch of the latest version of the OS – Android 2.3 Gingerbread – which saw the light of day earlier this week.
Analysts have widely suggested that Android will overtake the long-dominant Symbian as the leading smartphone platform by 2012 – probably a conservative estimate now that the long-ailing Symbian platform has all but shut its doors in the face of the increasing challenge from Google and Apple.
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shazi13 December 2010
i knew android will soon take over apple ,but after reading this i its really happening when the iphone first came out i dreamted to have 1 but because im a family man i couldnt spend over $400 on a phone because it wouldnt be fair on the kids or my wife and i would have felt guilty plus my upgrade wasnt due until march 2010 and thats when i stumbled upon the samsung galaxy s GTi9000 ,so when it came to upgrading i had a choice of getting an iphone 4 or the samsung galaxy s,both were offered to me with no upfront fee for the handset,so i went with the samsung galaxy s because every where i go every one has the same phone which was the iphone so wanted something unique which the samsung galaxy s is packing with a super amoled 4 inch screen,flash player 10.1,1gz humming bird proccesser 5mp camera ,2.0 bluetooth,wifi and one of the biggest battery in the smart phone marketwhich means longer life.i could go on with the features but these are the few things that shines for me unlike the iphone its has its fair share of problems.not saying no other phone does but its features could had been better they are restricting certain things like bluetooth sharing with any one and every one u cant change the battery if u have a spare and no flash support nor will they ever flash support ever in the future its stupid,with the android based devices such as my samsung galaxy s it has endless possibilities only thing with my samsung galaxy s is it doesnt flash for the camera so it makes it hard taking photo in the dark unless u switch to night mode it has 720p capabilities so the recordings come crisp and clear.in plain english android devices are taking over so its good bye to apple
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