Google CEO Eric Schmidt took to the phase at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Tuesday to talk up the Android OS for tablets and phones and to say the hunting giant would have liked Nokia as a partner .
When asked about Nokia ’s option of Windows Phone 7 as its smartphone system , Schmidt said that Google would have loved to see Nokia clean Android instead . Google tried to convince Nokia to opt Android , and it can still make that conclusion in the future , Schmidt say .
Nokia CEO Stephen Elop , a former Microsoft executive director , said here earlier this calendar week that had the peregrine - phone maker chosen Android , the marketplace would have become a duopoly , with Apple and Android dominating . He said he preferred a three - horse race , and going with Microsoft would give Nokia a larger part of service tax income .
Nokia ’s alternative notwithstanding , Android has been reign at Mobile World Congress . Vendors like HTC , LG Electronics , Samsung , and Sony Ericsson have announced a plethora of new smartphones and tablets base on the operating organisation .
Schmidt said that there are 300,000 Android machine activated daily , and 150,000 apps in the Android app store — a number that has tripled in the past nine month . Developers now start with peregrine apps because that ’s where the increase is , he added , say that smartphone sales surpassed PC sales last quartern .
There are a number of trends at work , Schmidt said : cloud computing , which has been present for a long time ; the fact that devices are backpack in more and more might ; and the fact that networks are engender more powerful . Roughly 98 percent of mobile - phone operator extend M - per - s speeds , he claimed . What ’s crucial about LTE , the newest engineering science for fluid broadband , is that it will make the opportunity for another set of applications that we can only imagine , Schmidt said .
One of these novel Android apps demonstrate by a Google employee onstage is Movie Studio , an app built for pad of paper that countenance the great unwashed edit out videos . The demonstration show how a user can drag a claim on an image , and also re - govern the item in the timeline of the video , by dragging and dropping . A pan - and - zoom issue can also be added , and by pinching with two fingers the exploiter can make the video zoom into the photo .
Schmidt said that the increasing incursion of mobile earphone extend Bob Hope for communicate with people around the earth who are currently not connect online , and solve some of the self-aggrandising problems in the world , include terrorism and globose warming .
Referencing Google ’s entrant into the internet browser war , Schmidt said that there are 120 million active drug user of Chrome .
Meanwhile , the fellowship ’s YouTube telecasting situation remains a force to be reckoned with : Schmidt said that 35 hour of video recording is upload every minute to the internet site . Its taxation doubled in 2010 , he said , and Google is monetizing professional mental object .
Schmidt resist to be drawn on a question from the audience on Android fragmentation , a vexation for some developers .
