Android to smash one billion user barrier

Two billion users expected within the next two years.
Android could soon be boasting more than one million users within the next six-nine months, according to Google’s executive chairman Eric Schmidt, who also said that the two million mark could be met “within a year or two,” Mobile World Live has reported.
The recent D:Dive into Mobile event saw Schmidt state that there are now over 750 million Android devices in use today, and that there are and additional 1.5 million activations every day.
Schmidt also suggested that there is significant potential for the platform in emerging markets, “especially as prices fall.”
Commenting on the rapid speed with which new technology reaches the market, and the subsequent drop in prices for previously cutting-edge features, he noted that Android’s growth in emerging markets will be supported by the arrival “a new generation of very low-cost Android phone manufacturers… primarily from Asia.”
“A relatively inexpensive smartphone with a strong and good browser is sort of what you need to access the world’s information. That’s what people need, that’s what they are going to get,” Schmidt added.

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