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Android continues to grow, currently activating 550,000 devices daily

On June 28th, it was revealed that Google activates 500,000 Android devices daily, a number that was projected to grow higher and higher and the summer rolled along. Today, during Google’s Q2 earnings call, it was announced that the amount of daily activations had increased by 50,000. A jubilant Larry Page, CEO of Google, revealed more »

Google currently activates 500,000 Android devices daily

Google’s Andy Rubin tweeted an interested message earlier today stating that Google is now activating over half a million Android devices daily. Perhaps even just as interesting is the fact that the number of activated devices per day is increasing at a rate of 4.4% week over week. There is no signs of the Android more »

Verizon may have sold 100,000 iPhone 4′s during the 17 hour pre-sale

While Verizon Wireless has released to the public that the pre-order sales for the iPhone 4 were the highest in the carrier’s history, it’s hard to gauge just how big that number is. Fortunately, an analyst from RBC Capital is claiming Verizon Wireless sold as many as 100,000 iPhones 4s in the 17 hour pre-order more »

Samsung: 600,000 Galaxy Tabs sold worldwide

Many are skeptical of the Samsung Galaxy Tab’s ability to seriously compete with Apple’s iPad, but make no mistake, based on some released statistics, the Galaxy Tab is projected to reach one million total sales by the end of 2010. In fact, the Galaxy Tab has already sold 600,000 times worldwide, exhausting supplies of the more »

App Store blows past 300,000

This past week, Apple’s App store reached 300,000 apps according to Mobclix. Right now, there are 206,828 paid apps and 94,147 free apps available to iOS devices, far and away the most apps for any mobile platform. Back in September, Android was said to have 80,000 apps. Apple’s number includes some 50,468 books, making it more »

Official: Google activates 200,000 phones daily

While meeting with a few journalists at the Techonomy conference, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, announced Google is activating 200,000 Android smartphones a day. You may remember back in June, right before the Droid X press conference, Schmidt announced Google activated 160,000 phones a day. Only a month later, that figure has risen to 200,000, certainly more »

Barnes & Noble expects to ship 60,000 Nooks in 2009

According to a recent report over on TechCrunch, it looks like Barnes & Noble is expecting to ship 60,000 Nook ebook readers this year. And keep in mind this is just the units that are expected to ship, there was not any estimate given as to how many additional orders were placed in 2009 and more »

MSI estimated to sell 700,000 Wind netbooks this year

MSI is expected to reach sales of somewhere between 600,000 and 700,000 units for their Wind netbook. Although it sounds like a big difference from the 4 million that Asus has sold, MSI is coming in well above their initial goal of 500,000. The higher than expected sales are due in part because of “white-box more »