Advertisements Distimo has released its yearly report about major app stores and it gives us an overview of how the Android app landscape changed in the last one year. This report also gives us the comparison with other app stores during this period.
Advertisements Google SVP of Mobile Andy Rubin has announced via his Twitter as well as Google+ accounts that over 700,000 Android devices are now being activated daily. This is quite a jump from the last announced 550,000 devices daily on Jul 15. Here is a quick history showing the number of device activations.
Advertisements Google’s Android operating system has taken over Symbian to become the top smartphone OS in the Indian market, stated IDC’s India Mobile Phone Tracker Report for Q3 CY2011. The report also added that Android represented 42.4% of the smartphone market in the last quarter and saw a growth of 90% over the previous quarter.
Advertisements Official graphic from Android team to showcase how, where, and when 10 billion apps were downloaded. Google has released an info-graphic showing the whole Android app revolution till now (with bonus interesting facts) from Android Market’s perspective. This shows which countries have downloaded the most number of apps, or which apps or games categories […]
Advertisements Today at the Google Music launch event, Google announced that over 200 million Android devices have been activated so far. Company last announced in May that over 100 million devices had activated and in just six months the numbers have doubled.
Advertisements Samsung crosses Nokia in smartphone shipments Google’s Android operating system was powering more than half of all the smartphones shipped in the third quarter, reported research firm Gartner. Samsung played an important part in this rise as it crossed Nokia to top the smartphone shipments.
Advertisements The global shipments of low-cost and budget Android devices is expected to go over the roof in the next four years, stated “Less is More: The Worldwide Emergence of Low-Cost Android Smartphones” report by In-Stat. This report suggests that sub-$150 Android phones will reach around 339 million in the year 2015.
Advertisements Android overtook Apple’s iOS in worldwide mobile app downloads in the second quarter this year, reported ABI Research. In terms of market share, Android now has 44% of total app downloads, while iOS app downloads are at 31%.