Google activating 700,000 Android phones every day

More than 700,000 people are signing up for new Google Android phones every day, the internet giant has revealed.

Andy Rubin, Google's Android chief, took to Twitter and Google+ to reveal the figures, which work out at almost five million new users every week.

Google is racking up 700,000 new users every day (Thinkstock)
He also pointed out that the activations solely include new devices and not refurbished or resold ones.
'Activations means you go into a store, buy a device, [and] put it on the network by subscribing to a wireless service,' Mr Rubin explained in a follow-up post on Google+.
The clarification may have been aimed at rivals Apple, as the late co-founder of the firm, Steve Jobs, frequently accused Google of counting upgrades in their figures of new users.
Figures from Google indicate a dramatic increase since October, when the search giant revealed it was picking up 550,000 new mobile phone users a day.
However, if the current statistics are correct then Google is experiencing the equivalent of the hysteria around the introduction of the iPhone 4S every week.
Google is currently the most popular smartphone platform in the US, with nearly 42 per cent of the market share, pushing Apple's iPhone into second place with just 27.1 per cent, according to metrics firm comScore.

Review & Specifications:HP Pavilion g6-1201tx Notebook PC

After a much awaited time finally I've bought a new HP g series laptop and all i can say is that it is absolutely awesome and fantastic in terms of both parameters performance as well as price. This is the Best Laptop I've Chosen among the other Laps as initially i found difficulty in choosing it but after a very deep analysis about this product on net and other places i found this an interesting one. I am using this laptop since last one week and i found that it is running in a very super fast and in a mind blowing way with its processing speed and the gaming experience with its Graphics Card 1GB AMD Radeon on Sony Bravia 32 inch Television is just awesome.

Specifications:

* Operating system: Windows 7 Home Basic
* 15.6 Inches HD LED (1366 x 768)Pixel Display Screen
* Intel Core i5-2430M Processor (UP TO 2.2GHz)
* Intel HM65 Express chipset
* AMD Radeon HD 6470M 1GB Graphics Card
* 4GB 1333 MHz DDR3 RAM
* 640GB Hard Disk
* Webcam: Yes
* Card Reader: Multi Card
* Optical Drive : SuperMulti DVD±R/RW with Double Layer Support
* Altec Lansing speakers – SRS Premium Sound
* Ports: 3 x USB 2.0, VGA, HDMI, microphone in, Headphone out, RJ-45
* Wireless 802.11 b/g/n
* BASE-T Ethernet
* Bluetooth
* Norton Internet Security 2012
* 90W AC Power Adapter
* Dimensions : 37.4 x 24.5 x 3.63 cm
* Weight: 2.3 Kg
* Warranty: 1 year

I would recommend to buy this laptop as the Market Price is around Rs.40000/- which i guess is the best price for such high configured laptop.

Sony launches new PS Vita console

Sony has ended one of its worst-ever years on a high note, with the launch of its cutting-edge handheld console, the PlayStation Vita, in Japan. Several Tokyo shops opened at 7am on Saturday to mark the PS Vita's debut, although attention was focused on the Tsutaya store in the trendy shopping district of Shibuya, where the machine's first official customer was presented with his purchase by the world's most high-powered shop assistants, Kaz Hirai and Andrew House – the former is executive deputy president of Sony and chairman of Sony Computer Entertainment, its video games wing, while House is president and CEO of SCE. The PS Vita was certainly well received in Tokyo: Kensho Monden, one of the first people to buy it, said: "I think its screen, in particular, is very good. I've bought Ridge Racer, and I bought the 3G version [the base model is Wi-Fi enabled only, but in Japan, Wi-Fi hot-spots are surprisingly thin on the ground] so I can play it across the network with my friends." Hundreds of customers braved freezing temperatures to queue outside Tsutaya for the launch, in a noticeably more orderly manner than is typical for similar launches in the UK, where much fewer shops are involved and the formalities take place when midnight signals the arrival of the designated day. Many commentators have singled the PS Vita out as a barometer of the state of the games industry, arguing that the rise of mobile phone gaming is eating into its traditional base and suggesting that Sony's replacement for the PSP could struggle as a result. House contended that: "PS Vita is designed to deliver the ultimate portable entertainment experience. It offers a new group of gaming experiences that were never possible before, through a unique combination of interfaces and features, and brings a wider variety of genres to portable gaming." It nods heavily towards mobile phones by including native support for social networking staples such as Facebook, Twitter, Skype and Foursquare, and House singled out an initiative called PlayStation Suite, which will essentially allow developers to deliver more casual games across Android mobile phones and the PS Vita.

He said: "We'll be happy to welcome in a new audience and migrate them to a deeper experience." And there are plenty of keen portable gamers out there – the PSP, in seven years on sale, has sold a cumulative 73m units, according to House. The PS Vita avoids one trap into which Nintendo's initially unsuccessful 3DS fell: it was supported by a healthy portfolio of 24 games – "The largest number of launch titles in PlayStation history," according to House. Which is an impressive achievement, given that Sony's manufacturing was hit in 2011 by the Fukushima earthquake and subsequent tsunami, the flooding in Thailand and even the outbreak of looting in London, which saw its giant Sony DADC warehouse in Enfield burned to the ground. UK consumers will have to wait until 22 February to buy the PS Vita, which will cost from £229.99. And even if the mobile phone market does eat into its popularity, Sony took the precaution of buying out Ericsson earlier this year, so that it now wholly owns the Sony Ericsson mobile phone concern. But with an impressive 5in OLED touch-screen – the largest ever seen on a portable gaming console – and a wealth of features including motion-sensing and a rear touch-pad plus, crucially, dual analogue joysticks to give hardcore gamers the control they crave, the PS Vita has more than enough ammunition to take on the mobile phones and tablets.

Aakash tablet goes on sale for Rs 2500 online

DataWind, the Canadian company that is manufacturing Aakash, has started the online booking and pre booking of the much anticipated low cost Android tablet. Online booking is for students' version of the tablet and pre booking is for UbiSlate 7, the upgraded version of Aakash.

Students' version of Aakash will be available for Rs 2,500 and will be delivered in seven days. The commercial version, UbiSlate 7 is priced at Rs 2,999. The payment mode for both the tablets is cash on delivery.

The commercial version of Aakash tablet will be powered by Android 2.3 and will have a resistive touchscreen, Cortex A8-700 MHz processor and graphics accelerator HD video processor, 256 MB of RAM and 2 GB of internal memory.

Other specifications are a one standard USB port, 3.5 mm audio jack, a 7 inch display with 800 x 480 pixel resolution, resistive touchscreen, GPRS and WiFi support.

"The improved version of Aakash tablet will be available in retail outlets by January end," a spokesperson of DataWind told The Mobile Indian.

The tablet was to be made available in retail stores by the end of November. "The delay in the availability of the tablet has been due to upgradation in the tablet and some unforeseen delay in manufacturing," the spokesperson said.

To book and prebook student and commercial versions respectively of Aakash tablet, users have to visit DataWind's website and fill up the required form. In case of booking they will get a booking ID and a message which will state, "You will shortly receive an email confirmation from our support team with further details."

In case of pre booking users will get a confirmation message which will state, "The commercial version of the Akash UbiSlate 7 would be launched in early weeks of December. After the commercial launch we would get in touch with you to deliver your device as soon possible."

As a matter of fact, the confirmation message a reader will see is factually incorrect as The mobile Indian had reported earlier the Aakash tablet will be available only by January end.

Datawind has however not cleared how it is going to establish the identity of students who will book the cheapest version of Aakash tablet. When The Mobile Indian contacted spokesperson of Datwind he said, "Anyone can book the student version of Aakash tablet."

This defeats the purpose of providing students an affordable tablet as now anyone can place an order to get the tablet. Interestingly, now it has been revealed that the government has procured only 10,000 Aakash tablets for distribution in schools and colleges of the initial 1 lakh proposed.

It looks like the company was in a hurry to start the online booking process and has not done not proper homework before staring it.

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