Kicking off the Motorola event in NYC, Google's Eric Schmidt has revealed some new Android figures for its captive audience of journalists and bloggers. It's now notching up some 1.3 million activations a day, which includes around 70,000 tablets ("We were late to them", notes Schmidt) every 24 hours. In total, that makes for just shy of 500 million Google-powered mobile devices around the globe -- 80 million in just over two months.

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Google's Eric Schmidt: 1.3 million Android activations a day, 480 million devices worldwide originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:15:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.