Google activating Android handsets at the rate of 5,50,000 every day

Google shared some interesting statistics about its Android platform during the Google Music press conference that was recently held in Los Angeles. More than 200 million Android smartphones and other devices have been activated around the world. That's up from 100 million six months ago. That's an incredible amount of growth for a platform that didn't exist three years ago.

Android's growth has come at the expense of entrenched platforms, such as RIM's BlackBerry and Nokia's Symbian operating systems. Their presence in the market has shrunk since Android (and the iPhone) arrived. 

While Android's growth is no doubt impressive, there's an even more interesting caveat at play here.

On Wednesday, Google said that it is activating Android handsets at the rate of 550,000 per day. That's great, but that's the same rate at which Google was activating Android smartphones back in July. What's going on here? Has Android's meteoric growth suddenly come to a halt? 

Google first started sharing daily activation numbers in January 2010, when it launched the original Nexus One. At the time, Google said it was activating about 60,000 Android handsets per day. 

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