In May of this year Android was doing superbly with 100 million Android handsets being used and around 500,000 handsets being activated on a daily basis.
Well, only 6 months on from May and here we are mid-November. Google’s OS has shipped on over 200 million devices and is being activated at a rate of 550,000 per day.
The rate of activation is a little low to be honest; it went up to 550,000 several months ago, and has sat at that level for a while now. Not that this is something that will bother Google, as the rate of activation is still astonishing, over half a million activations a day is an amazing feat.
Even if the rate of activation is slowing, Android is still the most popular OS out there at the moment, and a small dip in activations is not going to stop it.
Google have been onto a sure thing from the moment they bought Android, and with its latest incarnation Ice Cream Sandwich out and being developed furiously by individual developers, it will be taking over the Android world shortly.
Samsung and Google have teamed up to make the first ‘pure Android’ smartphone with the latest Android 4.0 software, the Galaxy Nexus. That phone goes on sale today in the UK at Phones4u, and we expect to see many more Android 4.0 smartphones joining it in the near future. We have already heard of the HTC Edge and Zeta smartphones which feature Quad-Core processors and ICS.
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