Crikey. It was only during last month’s Google I/O 2010 conference that Google claimed it was activating 100,000 Android phones around the world every single day – but that figure has now EXPLODED to an incredible 160,000. Every day.
The new numbers come courtesy of a few quotes given by Google’s Eric Schmidt to The Guardian today, during an event which was meant to promote Motorola’s new DROID X – but Schmidt clearly couldn’t help banging the general Android Drum as well. Here’s a screencapture of the Guardian report:
With thanks to “Bristolboy” for the heads-up. Nice to know we have a few Guardian-readers onboard and that our crazed tabloid style hasn’t scared everyone off.
UPDATE:
Google has just confirmed these figures in a post on the Official Google Blog, in which it also revealed that the Android 2.2 source code has been released to all developers and partners. Here’s the 160k quote:
“Every day 160,000 Android-powered devices are activated — that’s nearly two devices every second, used for the first time by people from New York to New Zealand.”
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