Google's Schmidt: Android device sales reach 200,000 each day

Google CEO Eric Schmidt Wednesday said sales of smartphones running the digital services giant's Android mobile operating system now total about 200,000 each day. "People are finally beginning to figure out how successful Android is," Schmidt said at the inaugural Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe, Calif., adding that Android device sales totaled about 100,000 per day just two months earlier. "It looks like Android is not just phenomenal but incredibly phenomenal in its growth rate. God knows how long that will continue."

Schmidt added that the leap in Android activations corresponds with increasing revenues resulting from mobile search growth both on and off the platform. "Trust me that revenue is large enough to pay for all of Android's activities and a whole bunch more," he said. "I should also say that we love the success of [rival Apple's] iPhone because the iPhone also uses Google's search and we get a chunk of that revenue when people search on the iPhone."

This week The Nielsen Company reported that Android devices accounted for 27 percent of U.S. smartphone sales over the past six months, surpassing the iPhone (23 percent) for the first time--Android now represents 13 percent of the nation's total smartphone market. Last month, Google reported that mobile searches across the Android OS increased 300 percent over the first six months of 2010, adding that its mobile traffic has grown 500 percent over the last two years.

For more on Android's sales growth:
- read this CNet article

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