Android popularity soars with over 500,000 activated each dayJune 28, 2011 - 20:54 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Over 500,000 Android devices are now activated each day around the world, CNET news reported citing Google's Android head Andy Rubin’s Twitter post. Activations are growing at a rate of 4.4 percent week-over-week, the post said. That figure becomes all the more staggering when one considers that just last month at Google's I/O Conference, the company announced that 400,000 Android devices were being activated each day, up from the 100,000 that were activated a year ago and 300,000 daily activations in December. In 2008, between 400,000 and 500,000 units of the first Android-based smartphone, the T-Mobile G1, were expected to sell during the fourth quarter of that year. As Android's popularity has soared, so too has its market share. According to a report released by ComScore earlier this month, Android secured 36.4 percent of the U.S. smartphone market during the first quarter of 2011, easily besting Apple's iOS platform, which controlled 26 percent of the market. RIM and Microsoft followed with 25.7 percent and 6.7 percent of the market, respectively. On a global scale, research firm Gartner sees good times ahead for Android handsets. The research firm said in April that it expects over 630 million smartphones to hit store shelves in 2012, and Android will be running on 49.2 percent of them. Apple's iOS will come in second with 18.9 percent market share. Top stories Yerevan will host the 2024 edition of the World Congress On Information Technology (WCIT). Rustam Badasyan said due to the lack of such regulation, the state budget is deprived of VAT revenues. Krisp’s smart noise suppression tech silences ambient sounds and isolates your voice for calls. Gurgen Khachatryan claimed that the "illegalities have been taking place in 2020." Partner news Most popular in the section | Titus, Bilirakis lead legislation to sanction Azerbaijani war criminals Representatives Dina Titus (D-NV) and Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) have introduced the bipartisan legislation. Azerbaijan must respect human rights, Scholz tells Aliyev German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called for greater respect for human rights in Azerbaijan. Armenia: Defense Ministry warns against involving army in political processes The Ministry’s statement came after a video surfaced online, showing soldiers joining the protests in Tavush. Scholz hopes Armenia-Azerbaijan peace treaty will be signed this year German Chancellor Olaf Scholz hopes that a peace treaty between Armenia and Azerbaijan will be signed this year. |