We’ve been watching the increase in daily activations of new Android handsets with JOY over the past 18 months, as the number of new Android users rocketed from 160,000 per day a mere 12 months ago, to 200,000 – then sailed past 350,000 and beyond.
Well guess what? Google is now activating half a million new Android phones (and a handful of tablets) every single day, with that number increasing by four percent week-on-week. The juggernaut is rolling on.
Link via Android overlord Andy Rubin’s own Twitter feed. Hope he’s on a performance-related pay scale.



Traceline
/ June 28, 2011Holy crap – that’s pretty impressive – now… if we can only see that sort of growth on the tablet side of things… #HeresHoping
Mark
/ June 28, 2011Android Tablet activations are low because many of the cheapy devices are not Google approved devices (i.e. no Google services), they just run Android.
Only proper devices that run Honeycomb (and a few of the better 2.2/2.3 devices) are actually Google approved.
The Google tablet market will undoubtedly be HUGE, devices like the Asus Transformer totally kill the functionality and performance of an iPad2, the problem is telling braindead marketing influenced consumers about them….
Peter
/ June 28, 2011Android tablets probably will rule the world eventually but honeycomb was released way before it was ready.