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Androids take over mobile convention

Google Android mobile phones have stolen the spotlight at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and the search giant has revealed that over 60,000 Android devices are being shipped every day.

With Microsoft's Windows Mobile losing traction in the market - and Windows Phone 7 not due out until the end of the year - many manufacturers are diving headfirst into Android and other open platforms.

HTC this morning unveiled three new handsets, two of which were Android-based and one running a highly customised version of Windows Mobile 6.5. All will be launched in Australia this year.

"We're now shipping more than 60,000 Android devices per day and that number has doubled over the last quarter," Google chief executive Eric Schmidt said in his keynote, adding there were now over two dozen Android models on the market globally. "Google is actually much more popular [than Windows Mobile] in terms of the internet experience and the search experience and some of their cloud [online] services," said HTC chief executive Peter Chou.

Source: The Age