It's no secret that phones running Google's Android software are becoming more popular, but just how popular might be something of a surprise.
As many as 200,000 Android-based phones are being activated each day, Google said on Wednesday, just one day before iSuppli released new research predicting that Android-based phones would outsell those running Apple's iOS by 2012.
Google's CEO Eric Schmidt was asked about the Android platform while speaking to journalists at the Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe,
Google's CEO Eric Schmidt was asked about the Android platform while speaking to journalists at the Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe,
CA on Wednesday. Schmidt said that the company is now activating 200,000 Android phones a day, up from 100,000 units a day in May. He credits much of Android's success to new devices like the Droid X, he said.
Those new devices are likely what researchers at iSuppli had in mind when coming out with the company's latest forecast for smartphone sales. iSuppli predicts that,
Those new devices are likely what researchers at iSuppli had in mind when coming out with the company's latest forecast for smartphone sales. iSuppli predicts that,
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by 2012, Android will be used in 75 million smartphones, up from just 5 million in 2009. That increase will allow Android to overtake Apple's iOS in market share, iSuppli says.
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