Roughly the same time last year--in June 2011--it was just being activated daily. In 2010, a year or so earlier, it was more like 100,000 activations each day.

On Wednesday, however, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt announced at Motorola's "On Display" event in New York that the platform has now reached a full 1.3 million new activations each day, according to a TechCrunch , thus continuing steadily on its dramatic upward climb.

'Froyo' Still in Third Place

There are now some 500 million Android devices out there in the wild around the globe, Schmidt said, and smartphones still outweigh tablets by far. In fact, just 70,000 of those 1.3 million daily activations are tablets, the report notes.

As far as which Android flavors are in use, this week has afforded some new insight there as well, as indicated in .