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    Eric Schmidt teases new Motorola devices as Android activations eclipse 1.5 million daily

    Posted Apr 16 2013 by Scott Webster in News with 5 Comments

    Google head Eric Schmidt, speaking at AllThingsD’s annual D: Dive Into Mobile, indicated that Motorola would be soon releasing a set of “phenomenal” new devices which he termed as “phones plus”. Without providing any additional details, his comments seemed to confirm the upcoming X Phone …

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    Google: Android eclipses half billion activated devices

    Posted Sep 12 2012 by Scott Webster in News with 1 Comment

    Google has officially seen 500 million Android devices activated since the release of the G1 back in fall 2008.  According to Google’s own Hugo Barra, the monumental figure was achieved yesterday, September 11, 2012.  At a confirmed rate of 1.3 million devices per day, we …

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  • Android: More than 400 million devices activated so far – daily activation crosses 1 million

    Posted Jun 27 2012 by Asad Rafi in News with 9 Comments

    Android is now almost 4 years old and when it was launched, it faced a lot of criticism but Google never gave up. Today, they launched the latest version of Android, known as the Jelly Bean, the most advanced and well-crafted version of Android to …

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    Rubin: Android activations eclipse 900k per day

    Posted Jun 11 2012 by Scott Webster in News with 67 Comments

    Daily activations continue to climb higher, inching closer to one million per day.

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    Record breaking activations for Android and iOS

    Posted Dec 27 2011 by Tony McAfee in News with 1 Comment

    Flurry Analytics tracks 100% of all new Android and iOS activations, and they’ve come up with some very interesting statistics: From December 1st through the 20th Android and iOS activations averaged 1.5 million per day, but on Christmas day shot up by more than 4.5 …

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    Android hits 700,000 daily activations

    Posted Dec 21 2011 by Scott Webster in News with 10 Comments

    At a rate of eight activated devices per second, Android shows no sign of slowing.

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    Android reaches 200 million activations, doubles in just six months

    Posted Nov 17 2011 by Vincent Messina in News with 5 Comments

    Today, during Google’s music event, Google’s director of digital content for Android shared the latest number of global Android device activations — and boy was it a doozy. In just six months time, the number of activated Android devices doubled from 100 million back in …

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  • Android Activations and How They Break Down

    Posted Jun 29 2011 by Thijs Koot in News with 14 Comments

    Google states that there’s over 500.000 Android activations every day, but where do they get that number from? That’s what I’m trying to find out in this article.

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  • Andy Rubin: Half Million Daily Android Activations and Growing

    Posted Jun 28 2011 by Scott Webster in News with 3 Comments

    Andy Rubin, the founder of Android and current Senior Vice President of Mobile at Google, tweeted yet another Android milestone this morning.  You do know that the platform is growing, right?  Well, as Rubin advises, that growth is at a rate of 4.4% week over week. …

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  • Android by the Numbers: 100 Million Total Activations, 4.5 Billion Apps Downloaded

    Posted May 10 2011 by Andrew Gomez in News with 1 Comment

    Hugo Barra, Product Management Director of Android, announced a few outstanding numbers at Google I/0 this morning regarding Android activations and app success

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  • “The State of Android” Shows Activations Out-Pacing US Births 30:1 [VIDEO]

    Posted Mar 4 2011 by Scott Webster in News with 14 Comments

    Have a look at how Android activations are having an impact around the world with this infographic-like approach.

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  • 160,000 Android Phones Sold Daily, Market Nears 70,000 Applications

    Posted Jun 23 2010 by Scott Webster in News with 9 Comments

    Speaking earlier today at the Droid X launch, Andy Rubin (Google VP of engineering) said that Android phones are being activated at a rate of 160,000 per day.  Yes, that’s almost two activations for every second of the day, every day.  What’s even more is …

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