Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Smartphone with Android operating system is trending now. Google also predicts that within 12 years or the year 2024, every person on this earth will have at least one Android device in their pocket. That prediction is told by Google Chairman, Eric Schmidt in his speech at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2012 in Barcelona. According to him, the target can be achieved because there are more inexpensive price of the Android phone in the market.
"Next year, the $100 worth of phone is $400 phone now. Many people create a smartphone in the range of $ 100 to $ 150. If you can give $ 70 price, you will get a very big market," he said .
Apple has spread the invitation for launch a new generation of their product, iPad 3. The launch of IPad 3 did not deter Google. In fact, Google believe that Android Tablet will be victorious beating iPad 3. Google's Senior Vice President of Mobile and Digital Content, Andy Rubin admitted that right now Android Tablet still lack a lot of thing. So far only about 12 million Android tablets were sold compared to the number of 55 million that reached by iPad.
However, the rapid development of Android make Rubin sure that Android tablet will beat their competitors in 2012. Google and their partners will work hard to double the sales of Android Tablet.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Coincide with the grand event Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain, Google announced the growth figures and the latest information about Android devices worldwide. Google reported that year-over-year Android growth figure increased about 250 percent. Thus, there are 850,000 device Android that is activated every day. Google says that if the number of Android devices worldwide already more than 300 million. Google does not directly mention how much exactly the total number of Android devices, but they would prefer to say the amount of daily activation.
According to Google, Android's activation has occurred 700,000 per day in mid December 2011. And then there was 3.7 million activation on Christmas 2011 weekend alone. Current activation occurs 850,000 per day.
Intel starting to involve in mobile phone competition market, challenging the former giant company like Nokia, Samsung, etc. This is evidenced by the release of Intel's first mobile phone that uses Intel chips called Santa Clara. Intel's mobile device is actually similar to the tool that was shown in
Consumer Electronic Show at Las Vegas a few
months ago.
One of the major European mobile operator Orange has even show their interest to buy this smartphone to be marketed in Europe.
Santa Clara will
uses Google Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) as its operating system. They feel its kinda hard to compete with other phones that already released like iPhone. However, Intel said this phone can be upgraded to the Ice Cream Sandwich
