200 Million Android Devices Activated; 550,000 Every Day
Google's army of Androids continues to grow at great speed.
The latest OS might night be out yet, but despite the lack of Ice Cream Sandwich, folks are still buying Android handsets by the boatload. Google yesterday revealed that in the three years since Android first launched, 200 million phones have been sold and its activating half a million every day.
Speaking at its Google Music event yesterday, Google revealed its impressive numbers, which amount to an increase of 150,000 activations per day compared to May. Speaking at Google I/O earlier this year, Hugo Barra, Product Management Director for Android, gave attendees a quick recap of the kind of growth Google's mobile operating system has seen since it launched in October of 2008. Barra reported that Android use had skyrocketed to 100 million worldwide activations and about 400,000 more each day. Google yesterday confirmed that this 100 million activations figure has doubled in the last six months and the company is now averaging 550,000 each day.
Of course, it's not fair to compare Android activations to iOS activations, because while there's only one iOS phone, there's countless Android devices. However, despite Android's advantage of multiple devices, Apple has activated 250 million iPhones and so, is still ahead. Still, it's not by much, and with the rate Android is going, it won't take Google long to catch up.
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100m in 6 months? That's a hell of a lot O.o
Didn't iOS have about a year and a quarter/third lead on Android in terms of release? As in it was released around June/July '07.
I wish I was 1/550,000. I can't justify a cellular contract. :[
My last one was "$39.99"/month which = $60.00+/month and I hardly even used the phone! And that is after 15% company discount... sigh.
I couldn't do the contract either. But found Page Plus Cellular. They are a prepaid company that use Verizon's network. For $30/mo, I get 1200 minutes/3000 text/ and 100megs of data. While thats not much, I'm on wifi most of the time and 100 megs is enough to get me email all the time, gps and geocaching from time to time, some product surfing when shopping, and I don't come close to using all my data. Best part is they are BYOD, bring your own device. I started with a new palm pixi plus (can find them for $40 or less new still) at the end of April. Couldn't do everything I needed it to (GPS navigation wouldn't work.) So bought a used LG Ally for $50 in May. That was great and I'd still have it if a friend didn't sell me a Droid 2 Global for $90 2 weeks ago. Sold the Ally for $90 with all the accessories. 3rd phone in less than 7 months. Careful the bug doesn't bite you. But the service works great and if you're okay providing your own tech support and responsible for your own phone, PPC is worth a look. Kittywireless is a great online dealer for them with some very helpful forums if you need more info.
WOW!!
Funny...
I want an Android phone...
@wardler depending on where you live you can pick up cheap pre paid service with an android phone, just check the coverage maps first
I'm rocking out Virgin Mobile 25/mon (its now 35) with an Optimus V ($130), root the phone, install custom rom, and you have a good phone on decent for the money ervice
I fixed it+
June 29, 2007 for the iPhone (first iOS device)
September 20, 2008 (first Android device)
today 250 Million iPhones (not sure how many iOS devices total or if this is actually total iOS devices but I know when Android was at 100 Million devices total the iPhone passed 100 million on it's own.)
200 Million Android devices (this is definitely all device types)
The last paragraph is deceiving and just flat out wrong. There are more than just iPhones when it comes to iOS devices... There are not 250 million iPhones activated, there are 250 million iOS devices.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/04 [...] ices-sold/
There may be only 1 top of the line iOS phone, but you can still buy the iPhone4 or and sometimes on sales the iPhone3GS + there are iPads and iTouches. It isn't just all iPhones. Android long since surpassed Apple in smartphone numbers.
im one of the 100m. just bought it on september, and without contract..
Most material I have read show that Apple has only activated 200 million devices (iOS iphone/itouch/ipad). It is also very fair to compare Apple to Android because they are direct competitors on both phone/tablet platforms.
in your face iOS...!
google is still playing catch up despite having multiple partners, numerous devices, flexible prices on their side? that goes to show how powerful (at selling their crap to people) apple is.
google desperately needs a viable ipad/ipad2 competitor.
next year they'll have another competitor - microsoft. microsoft will aim at arm-run tablets. i read a new rumor that they're readying windows 8.0 for smartphones. i dunno how bad win 7.5 is but win 8.0 is probably ms's dark horse (although mobile windows oses have higher chance of fail).
good luck giant data mining storing private information selling corporatons next year!
Its 22916.66666666667 an hour!
550k a day!? There must be a lot of people who haven't bought a smartphone yet.
250 iOS devices does not mean iPhones. It means iPhones, iPods, iPads, and Apple TVs combined. So yes, Android is competing against more than one device. But it won't matter, in another year or so those Android activations will be greater than iOS devices so we won't see Apple tossing out anymore slides with their device numbers.
... and some 50% from the devices are c#@p...
Xyriin: apple only sells 2 kinds of iPhones, 1 kind of iPad and a few iPods. Vs about 30 android phones and 15 good android tablets. Apple makes more money because of its Eco system than any google partnership.
I'm not very impressed with android or Samsung when it comes to support and usability of their products. And for a novice computer user, it's even worse. I get music or photos onto or off my galaxy phone okay... I manually drag and drop. iTunes makes it very easy for avg users.
I won't ever see ICS on my galaxy... Gee thanks google.
Yeah, but they fail to tell you what types of Android activations they are. Fandroids would like people to believe that they comprise Galaxy GS2's, Galaxy Tabs, Droid RAZR's or ASUS Transformers when the fact is most of them are junk devices.
Go and add up the sales numbers for the top Android devices and you come far, far short of that 550,000 per day figure. So it's not really that impressive at all.
I have both an apple and an android device; The apple came first; I will never buy another apple.
Choice. Which is why I will never devolve into an iSheep.
Choice. Which is why I will never devolve into an iSheep.
Choice - something that Android users crow about, unless you chose not to use Android; then they get all tied up in knots.
Xyriin: apple only sells 2 kinds of iPhones, 1 kind of iPad and a few iPods. Vs about 30 android phones and 15 good android tablets. Apple makes more money because of its Eco system than any google partnership.I'm not very impressed with android or Samsung when it comes to support and usability of their products. And for a novice computer user, it's even worse. I get music or photos onto or off my galaxy phone okay... I manually drag and drop. iTunes makes it very easy for avg users.I won't ever see ICS on my galaxy... Gee thanks google.
So why was this thumbed down? Talk about attacking the messenger.
i haven't had a smartphone since nokia 6600 and i'm a gadget guy. yes, there's still a lot lot of people that don't have smartphone yet.
The last paragraph is deceiving and just flat out wrong. There are more than just iPhones when it comes to iOS devices... There are not 250 million iPhones activated, there are 250 million iOS devices.http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/04 [...] ices-sold/ There may be only 1 top of the line iOS phone, but you can still buy the iPhone4 or and sometimes on sales the iPhone3GS + there are iPads and iTouches. It isn't just all iPhones. Android long since surpassed Apple in smartphone numbers.
It's not wrong at all, and it's not deceiving either.
There may be multiple iterations of the iphone device, but each Android device has iterations too, and there are far more of them, so it's very much accurate. Android activations are not all on phone either, so it's an entirely fair comparison. For example, Android tablets, of which there are far more than there are iPads.
Finally, Android is NOT ahead in smartphone activations, that is 'flat out wrong'. See here:
http://www.mediabistro.com/ebookne [...] ogy_b16929
250 iOS devices does not mean iPhones. It means iPhones, iPods, iPads, and Apple TVs combined. So yes, Android is competing against more than one device. But it won't matter, in another year or so those Android activations will be greater than iOS devices so we won't see Apple tossing out anymore slides with their device numbers.
Android is spread over multiple devices too, so it's an entirely fair comparison.
Choice. Which is why I will never devolve into an iSheep.
Fragmentation, which is why hardware which should be faster runs far slower.