While Google Android 3.0 Gingerbread is announced for October, iSuppli study reveals that the number of that OS smartphones will rise to 75 million in 2012, against 5,000,000 in 2009. , Google Android 2.2 Froyo should arrive soon and Android 3.0Gingerbread will knock the door of this world in October.This version primarily geared towards high-end smartphones and powerful, that is to say, with processors running at 1GHz and 512 MB of RAM.
To date, only five or six handsets would be able to take advantage of this new version of the Android OS (including Samsung and Galaxy HTCDesire), which integrates Google Music, the future of music listening service streaming Google and competitor toiTunes fromApple,according to the New York Post.
If this pace of development can be sustained on top than the Google Android poses a problem for manufacturers who make rapid movement of terminals including versions obsolete very quickly, often less optimized or less complete.
Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, told a group of journalists from TechCrunch, after the conference Techonomy Lake Tahoe (California), that about 200,000 smartphones running on Android would be activated each day worldwide.
This is a phenomenal growth since the number was 160,000 in June and 100,000 in May alone.
According to research firm iSuppli, in 2012, the number of mobile terminals equipped with Android will rise to 75 million (against 5,000,000 in 2009). Google smartphones will be more widespread than theiPhone from Apple, with “only” 62 million copies enabled.