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Android Handphone - Android Sees 300,000 Daily Activations, Rubin Says

More than 300,000 Google Android phones are being switched on each day, according to a tweet from Android creator Andy Rubin. Google Android creator Andy Rubin said Dec. 8 that there are now 300,000 Android phones being activated each day.

Rubin's tweet was seconded by Android developer Dan Morrill.

Google's count of Android activations has been vociferously smacked down by Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who skewered Google's claims of Android being open and sporting 200,000 daily activations in October.

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Steve Job is Eating his Hat when Samsung Galaxy Tabs sold more than a million

Holy moley. That’s not too far away from the iPad, which sold 1 million units in just 28 days. And it’s a number that should have Steve Jobs eating his hat after he ruthlessly derided 7-inch tablets during an earnings call.
“Seven-inch tablets are tweeners: too big to compete with a smartphone and too small to compete with the iPad,” Jobs said. “These are among the reasons that the current crop of 7-inch tablets are going to be DOA — dead on arrival.”
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HTC Confirms 'Gingerbread' Support!

Summary
HTC has confirmed that "Gingerbread," the new Android 2.3 OS, will be released on some HTC Android phones. Unfortunately, other phone manufacturers haven't been as forthcoming.
A spokesperson for HTC said, "We are excited about the OS update coming for Android, and while HTC will definitely have some phones running this OS, we do not have a specific timeframe for new phones or updates at this time."

This is great news for those HTC Android users whose phones will receive the update, but where does that leave everyone else? The Android updates available seem to vary just as much as the phones themselves do.


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Android handphone - Android User consume more data?

Users of Android phones consume far more mobile data than users of other smartphones do, according to a study released Wednesday by network management software provider Arieso.

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News from http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/212954/android_users_hungriest_for_mobile_data_study_says.html
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