Google activates 500,000 Android devices a day, may reach 1 million in October

June 28, 2011 By Jeffrey Van Camp

Google's Andy Rubin has revealed that the search giant is now activating half a million Android devices every day. We take the math a step further and discover that Google may hit 1 million daily handset activations in October.

Android is now outselling most major consumer product launches on a daily basis. Earlier this morning, Google’s Andy Rubin, senior vice president of mobile, tweeted that 500,000 Android devices are now activated by Google each day and that rate is growing at 4.4 percent week over week. For reference, Google celebrated 400,000 activations per day at its Google I/O conference in May and Andy Rubin announced that the company hit 300,000 activations per day back in Dec. 2010.

Will Google reach 1 million activations per day this year?

While the activations are impressive, the rate of growth is more staggering. In a world where growth rates remain perfectly stable and Google is activating exactly 500,000 devices per day as of today, we’ve calculated the growth of its daily activations through the end of 2011. If this rate continues, Google may reach 1 million activations per day by the third week of October and reach 1.5 million by the end of the year. And if this trend continues into next year, by mid February, there will be 2 million activations per day. Of course, how long the trend continues depends on how fast the world of non-smartphone users continues to convert and how well Google continues to rank compared to iOS, BlackBerry, WebOS, and Windows Phone through the next year.

Android daily activations (by week ):

500,000 : 06/28/11
522,000 : 07/05/11
544,968 : 07/12/11
568,947 : 07/19/11
593,980 : 07/26/11
620,115 : 08/02/11
647,400 : 08/09/11
675,886 : 08/16/11
705,625 : 08/23/11
736,673 : 08/30/11
769,086 : 09/06/11
802,926 : 09/13/11
838,255 : 09/20/11
875,138 : 09/27/11
913,644 : 10/04/11
953,844 : 10/11/11
995,813 : 10/18/11
1,039,629 : 10/25/11
1,085,373 : 11/01/11
1,133,129 : 11/08/11
1,182,987 : 11/15/11
1,235,038 : 11/22/11
1,289,380 : 11/29/11
1,346,113 : 12/06/11
1,405,342 : 12/13/11
1,467,177 : 12/20/11
1,531,733 : 12/27/11
1,599,129 : 01/03/12

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Jacob Burns at 4:14pm 28th June 2011 So that means that in 1 year (if the current rate still applies) The entire American population will be using android phones :O the definition of android is a human like machine capable of learning. A learning computer. The terminator was a learning computer. Android=Skynet?D:
Rodney Stearns at 4:07pm 28th June 2011 Text No More was right to start out on android. I am ahead of the curve. Easier operating system to work with also...
Mike Dunn at 7:58am 28th June 2011 That's just so many. That has to include current Android users upgrading. Hard to imagine that many each day, I'm curious as to how many iPhones are activated daily.
1. Ian Bell at 9:22am 28th June 2011 I think that just most phones available today have a version of Android on them. Nokia is MIA, Apple has expensive phones...Android seems to be on every phone in every price range.