The Android Market includes over 450,000 applications

Feb 27, 2012 15:09 GMT  ·  By

At the MWC 2012 show in Barcelona, Google unveiled to the world more numbers regarding its Android platform, saying that it is now activating 850,000 new Android devices each day.

This means that the platform’s year-on-year growth rate was of 250 percent, which helped the total number of Android devices out there to top 300 million.

More impressively, the number of applications in the Android Market has reached 450,000, three times more than the 150,000 that were in the app portal at last year’s MWC.

Additionally, app downloads in the Android Market are of over 1 billion each month, Andy Rubin, SVP, mobile and digital content, Google, notes in a blog post.

The Mountain View-based company is now present at the MWC 2012 in Barcelona, and those attending the swho can visit its stand to learn more on the mobile platform and the devices powered by it. Have a look at the photo below to see what the booth looks like.