Google is activating 160,000 Android-OS phones a day - up from 100,000 a day in the third week of May.

Android apps are also growing at a lick, with about 65,000 available, compared with 50,000 a month ago.

The figures come from Google chief exec Eric Schmidt, in an exclusive interview with The Guardian.

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Link: Guardian.