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.

Smartphones and found to be a failure

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.

Dell plans to release a smartphone in the U.S.

Dell plans to launch a smart phone with Android software from Google via AT & T operator, according to a source, which would be the first PC maker's foray into the arena of mobile telephony in the U.S..
Dell will be the last manufacturer of technology in trying to settle in the rapidly growing market led by Apple and Research In Motion. The phone also plans to give a boost to the fledgling mobile platform from Google, which competes with Apple and Microsoft.
A source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters that Dell plans to introduce a U.S. version of its "oPhone" for China - powered by Android - and the device is certified by AT & T for your home network.The Wall Street Journal, which broke the news on Wednesday, citing people briefed on the matter saying that the phone could be launched Dell in early 2010.
Smart phones - mobiles with complex functions ranging from email to media - have exploded in the corporate and consumer market as more and more users access information and entertainment outside the home.
Dell spokesman Andrew Bowins declined to comment on a deal with AT & T but said: "We are deeply committed to our operator partners around the world to offer computing devices that work with mobile broadband.
He added: "We have not announced anything about Android although we continue to explore opportunities in these areas with operators around the world."
Google declined to comment, as did AT & T. But the spokesman for the telecommunications giant, Michael Coe, said: "We expect to sell phones with Android in the future."