500 Million Android Device have been Activated

Google now claims to have activated more than half a billion devices running on its Android mobile operating system.

The company revealed the data a few hours before Apple launched its new iPhone 5, with Android product manager saying this is a “big day” for the little robot.

“Today is a big day for Android,” he said in a post to Google+.

“500 million devices activated globally, and over 1.3 million added every single day.”

For a while now, the number of Android’s daily device activations has been gradually breaking its own records.

In July last year, Google boasted around 550,000 activations per day, while in February this year it talked about 850,000 per day.

In June, the number had sneaked to over 900,000 activations daily, and since then Google followed its mobile operating system as it launched on the Asus Nexus 7 tablet computer as Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, which is its latest version and could have helped increase user activations.

Google already clarified that its daily activations figures are phones or tablets turned on for the first time, which means the search giant does not include existing devices that have been resold in its count.