Google celebrates commercial success of the Android operating system

Some 200,000 smart phones that use Google's Android operating system are sold every day, said Chief Executive of the Internet company, Eric Schmidt, emphasizing the strong challenge to rivals such as Apple's iPhone.

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Schmidt told reporters during a technology industry conference in Lake Tahoe that Android "mobile software for launching a little over a year, was gaining momentum in a fiercely competitive scenario.
Smart phones that operate with the software were the best sellers in the second quarter among U.S. consumers, said on Wednesday tracking firm NPD.
One third of all units sold between April and June had the operating system, while the BlackBerry from Research in Motion fell to second place for the first time since 2007.
BlackBerry lost nine percentage points of market share and fell to 28 percent. The iPhone came in third with 22 percent.
Android is now on smartphones manufactured by several companies, including Motorola Droid-the best-selling Android device in the second quarter among U.S. consumers, and the apparatus of the Taiwanese HTC.

Google said recently that 160,000 Android phones have been activated daily during the second quarter, up from 65,000 a day for the first quarter.
"It seems that Android is not only phenomenal, but also has a phenomenal success in its rate of growth," Schmidt told reporters at the conference Techonomy, where he participated in a panel discussion.
Schmidt said Google is now focused on integrating social networking features into their products online.

But the executive did not comment on reports that it is creating a new service to compete with Facebook, the largest social networking site in the world and suggest that firms would be associated with social and Zynga games.
Analysts have said the games could be the ticket for Google to enter the social networking scene, at a time when the Internet giant seeks to leave behind a disappointing series of initiatives that have made the background in a market boom.

"There have been many leaks, some of which have been corrected, some that have not been. In general it is better not to talk about unannounced products," said Schmidt.
"Overall, we always believe that our products would be better with more social cues," he added.
Schmidt's comments came the same day the company Google deactivated Wave, a product of high-profile social networks presented the past year.
Wave Schmidt said no "got enough momentum, but the company applied some of its functions to upcoming products.