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The Week in Android

Previously on Life of Android (to be read in gruff American accent)...

Posted by Stuart Pritchard on the 16th November 2012

Vroooooooom! Yes, that was a written representation of the sound of the week in Android shooting by with all the violent velocity of Usain Bolt being fired from a cannon… read more

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Instagram update: one million and counting

Insta-nt hito-gram: Photo app makes one million downloads in 24 hours...

Posted by Stuart Pritchard on the 4th April 2012

Instagram update: one million and counting

After CEO Kevin Systrom told the New York Times yesterday that the freshly launched Instagram for Android app was grabbing 2000 people each minute following its debut, today’s update brings us the, frankly staggering, news that within the first 24 hours of availability the photo filtering application had already racked up an amazing one million downloads… read more

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Android in numbers – 850,000 daily activations and other astonishing figures

Andy Rubin unleashes awesome Android stats at MWC

Posted by Graham Fraser on the 28th February 2012

Android in numbers – 850,000 daily activations and other astonishing figures

Speaking at Mobile World Congress’ first day – on that was arguably dominated by Android announcements – Andy Rubin unleashed a stream of stats for Android fans the world over. read more

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GetJar launches GetJar Gold virtual currency for Android

Earn while you download with new initiative

Posted by Graham Fraser on the 27th February 2012

GetJar launches GetJar Gold virtual currency for Android

GetJar, the world’s largest independent app store, has launched a new initiative for Android users that earns them virtual currency when they splash out on paid-for apps. read more

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Google: 3 billion Android apps now installed

Big G also announce downloads up 50% from Q4

Posted by Nick Renshaw on the 15th April 2011

Google: 3 billion Android apps now installed

Yesterday Google announced it Q1 financial results and although it was slight down on its earnings forecast, you can still guess the Big G raked in healthy billion dollar profit. More interestingly, Google used this opportunity to reel off some impressive stats about its Android app culture. According to Google, a whopping three billion apps have now been installed.

This stat is made even more impressive when you look at the exponential growth: it took 20 months to hit one billion, five months to reach the second billion and just three months to nail three billion. read more

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