Google will integrate tablets and smartphones with the new version Android "Ice Cream Sandwich", Android users increase by 400,000 a day

Apple offers the same version of "iOS" as its operating system for its smartphone "iPhone" and tablet terminal "iPad", but Google's Android offers "2.X" for smartphones, "2.X" for smartphones, "3 . X "...... and so on, the version is different.

To cope with such a situation, the new version of Android "Ice Cream Sandwich"OS for the tablet and smartphone was to be integrated. Also, Android users are increasing at a pace of 400,000 a day.

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Official Google Blog: Android: momentum, mobile and more at Google I / O

According to Google's official blog, the company has released eight versions of the Android OS over the past two and a half years, and currently there are over 310 Android devices of various shapes and sizes around the world By releasing the Android code name "Ice Cream Sandwich", it seems to be able to correspond to every device with one OS.

There are already 100 million Android devices activated on the market, and the number of new activations per day has reached 400,000 units. In addition, the number of applications delivered by "Android Market" has reached 200,000, and the number of downloads has reached 4.5 billion.

A beta version of the service "Music Beta by Google" that can upload music files newly owned by users to the cloud server, stream it on a PC or Android terminal, also supports playlists was launched in the US from today Available among some invited users.

Furthermore, movie rental from 1.99 dollars (about 161 yen) that can be enjoyed on Android terminals and computers using "Android Market" will also be launched for Verizon version of "Motorola XOOM" in the US, and within the next few weeks the service will be released on Android 2.2 It is supposed to correspond to a terminal.

By the way, when Motorola's Android smartphone "DROID X" was announced on June 24, 2010,The number of activations per day for Android devices is 160,000, and as of May 2010, it is 100,000 per daySo the Android platform has grown quadrupled in a year.

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