Android hits activation milestone

on 06/24/2010 07:19 PDT

According to Andy Rubin, VP of Engineering at Google, 160,000 Android-powered devices are activated each day, which results in nearly a couple of devices each second. We guess the number of activations could rise further with more and more Android-powered handsets being pushed into the market in the near future. Perhaps with Android 2.2 being released, the pace could pick up even futher. What do you think?

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