MORE THAN 200 MILLION ANDROID DEVICES ACTIVATED GLOBALLY, 550K DAILY

Apple may have the best-selling single series of handsets (iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S), but when it comes to the best-selling smartphone platform, there's no denying: it's Android. More than 200 million Android devices have now been activated globally, Google announced earlier this week, at an event where it unveiled its new Google Music service.

Just six months ago, in May during its Google I/O conference, the company said it had activated over 100 million devices globally, so in six months it has doubled that figure. Compare that to the first 100 million Android devices, which took about 2 1/2 years (from late October 2008 to

May 2011) and we've seen some serious acceleration. Moreover, over 550,000 Android devices are being activated daily, up from 500,000 daily in June and 400,000 in May. Apple had quite a head start with its iPhone, which first shipped in 2007, and in addition the total number of iOS devices that Apple cites includes iPod touches, as well as iPads and

iPhones. Still, Google is catching up fast, and unless something changes radically, it will undoubtedly pass Apple eventually. At the iPhone 4S Oct. 4 launch event, CEO Tim Cook said that Apple had sold 250 million iOS devices up to that date.

According to the latest report from Gartner, Android's global smartphone market share is more than 52 percent, compared with iOS's 15 percent. A recent comScore report, looking at just the U.S., gave Android 43.7 percent smartphone market share and the iPhone 27.3 percent market share.

Fragmentation is still a problem, but most Android devices are currently running a version of 2.x, according to the Android Developers site. Data from devices that have accessed the Android Market shows that nearly 44 percent of them are on a version of Android ranging from 2.3.3 to 2.3.7 (Gingerbread). Meanwhile, 40 percent are running Android 2.2.x (Froyo), but --- showing the poor uptake of Android tablets --- only about 2 percent are running Android 3.x (Honeycomb).

Steve Jobs 'Kill' iPhone 5

All the gadget enthusiast hoping will come out of Apple iPhone 5 this year. Instead of sticking even the iPhone 4S is now continually problematic. The question hanging them is, 'There is not really an iPhone 5?' According to Business Insider: There! IPhone 5 is a real product. And Apple was almost released it, but at the last minute cancellation. Who else if not Steve JobsSteve Jobs, who had a role, according to Business Insider quotes an anonymous source from Apple.

"Apple has made ​​a prototype iPhone 5, with a bigger screen and form new ones. Some of them even already predict this product will be circulated before December 2011," according to Business Insider. But, the founder of Apple who is also the most influential figure in the company, Steve Jobs, 'kill' the product. What article? There are no rumors that could be validated. Rumors circulating saying, Jobs kill iPhone because it does not like the shape.

As you know, the iPhone's distinctive shape. Unlike the form of smart phones made ​​by Nokia, HTC, and Samsung. The big screen in the iPhone, according to him, will be followed to the Samsung or HTC. All things Android is allergic to Jobs. Apple enthusiast knew the character of Jobs in the design. He adopts a minimalist and shape similarity. So make a product similar to the iPhone with Android could be devastating, according to Jobs, the philosophy of the product. Apple iPhone can no longer see the similarities from generation 1 to 4.

Is this correct? Steve Jobs certainly could not answer, because it already passed away. While other Apple officials? We wait for their clarification. Is there really a murder in Cupertino (Apple HQ).

Source confirms iPhone 5 existed, includes details

We, as well as many others, were expecting an iPhone 5 instead of the iPhone 4S, and in fact we have a source who held the device in his hand. We also told by a different source why the iPhone 5 was not launched. Now, Business Insider has linked up with a source who didn't just hold the iPhone 5, he spent about two weeks with an iPhone 5 prototype.

It validates our earlier reporting on the iPhone 5 and its existence. We didn't necessarily expect anyone to believe our assertions about the iPhone. BI, however, is a different story. There are, however, differences between our sources and theirs in terms of why the phone was ultimately rejected.

Our information was that developers were working up to the very end, trying to get the iPhone 5 done in time for an October launch. However, problems with the manufacturing of the curved screen on the device were not ironed out by the time of the iPhone 4S launch, so the device was tabled, and will probably be what we see in 2012.

BI's insider says that it was another axing by Steve Jobs. He apparently was not happy with the fact that the device had a 4-inch screen, larger than prior iPhones, calling it "fragmentation." If that was indeed the case, it would have meant we might never have seen an iPhone with a larger screen, except that Jobs has now passed away.

He held sway over Apple product development with an iron fist. With new CEO Tim Cook in place, we might indeed see a larger-screened iPhone, which many feel is necessary as larger screens are all the rage in Android smartphones. BI's source played with a prototype, not a finished product. Our source used a near-production quality model.

Among the key points he made.

    * The new iPhone 5 was supposed to have an aluminum back, similar to the iPad 2.
    * Eventually, Apple wants to use its "liquid metal" technology to make colored iPhones. Apple purchased exclusive rights to the use of liquid metal earlier.
    * The prototype's home button "was not a physical press button. You could touch it and hold it and physically reboot the device." It's unclear what that means, exactly, but it sounds more like a capacitive button than a pure soft button.
    * Engineers said that the iPhone 5 was supposed to have a 10 megapixel rear-facing camera. The iPhone 4S eventually ended up with an 8MP camera.
    * The prototype had Siri, but it was called "Assistant," which was actually a rumored name for Siri.

In addition, some prototype-only "features:"

    * The prototype was much faster than a normal iPhone, but that was due to the fact that Apple had removed the limiter is uses on shipping devices. Its battery life was terrible, because of that.
    * The prototype had a screen with a "messed-up" color profile, but this was actually a good thing, meaning the iPhone 5 was going to have a better screen with improved colors. The reason, he said, was that Apple tends to "ugly up" features it is improving in its prototypes in order to disguise them.

Now if only Apple employees could hang onto their prototypes. Really, we wouldn't be broken up about it. The iPhone 4S did not include LTE, and the iPhone 5 would not have, either. Assuming the information about Jobs objecting to the size of the iPhone 5's screen is true, or even if it were not, and our information is the more correct of the two, we fully expect that Apple will release the iPhone 5 ... not a new one, this one, that was nearly complete, next year.

Unless, as is Apple's trend, it comes up with something even better.

Biography of Steve Jobs, the best selling book in the world

The biography of the cofounder of Apple, Steve Jobs, became the best selling book in the world this week except for Portugal. According to sales reports from several countries, the work, written by American journalist Walter Isaacson is the work of non fiction purchased in America and Europe.

The biography of Jobs is the number one sales in Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, USA, and in Germany, France, Italy, Britain and Spain. The only exception is Portugal, where the creative biography of McIntosh computer and the iPhone does not appear even among the four best sellers.

However, third in the Portuguese readers preferred figure "or method of Steve Jobs" Jay Elliot (The Steve Jobs Way), a book about how the so-called "apple genius" changed the way we communicate and of doing business.