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Android activations grow to 700,000 a day

By Sam Koutroulakis
on 20 Dec, 2011

According to Andy Rubin, Android smartphones are now being activated 700,000 times in a single day. In the big scheme of things, that shows amazing growth. The OS is quite popular, but growing from 550,000 daily activations in July to 700K is incredible! It was estimated that we may be at 1 million activations a day by October 20th, but it undoubtedly digressed from the projected path.

Google Buzz mobile now available for all Android devices

By David Junior
on 27 May, 2010

When Google released Buzz back in February, Android users with 2.0 or higher were the only group to fully enjoy it from their mobile device. Today Google has updated Buzz work on any browser. This is likely an attempt by Google raise the popularity of Buzz.

There are 38,000 Apps in The Android Market

By David Junior
on 15 Apr, 2010

This is a great accomplishment for Android. The market is growing faster than most of us anticipated. This was revealed during this afternoon's Q1 earnings press conference, Jeff Huber who is Google's senior VP of engineering. Also, Google views the Nexus One as a “profitable business” even though most analyst feel it didn’t sell enough units overall.

Alex eReader Orders Begin Today, Coming To Borders Stores Soon

By David Junior
on 16 Mar, 2010

After many delays, Spring Designs are finally ready to release the Alex eReader. This device gained popularity at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, but issues with e-commerce website delayed its release. You can't have an eReader without eBooks. Spring Designs has two content partners for the Alex in Google Books and Borders. Orders placed today will take up to four weeks to be delivered. Its ability to offer content in Chinese, Spanish, Russian, Korean and Hebrew is contributing to this delay.

Android Shipping 60,000 Units A Day

By David Junior
on 17 Feb, 2010

Its no secret that Android is picking up steam and is quickly becoming the fastest growing market among smart-phone and handsets in general. The versatility of the platform as well as the different hardware variations are really helping to aid in the growth of the OS. But 60,000 units shipped a day? This is an awesome feat and shows the popularity of Android around the world.

Official Best Buy App

By David Junior
on 12 Feb, 2010

With the popularity of the Android platform growing more and more retailers will look into taking advantage of this new market of potential buyers. Best Buy has now released an app in the Android Market.