Google TV coming fall, 200k Android activations daily claims Eric Schmidt

Google CEO Eric Schmidt has used his IFA 2010 closing keynote to promise Google TV’s US launch in the fall, as well as confirming that users will be able to turn not only their Android phones but their iPhone into a remote control for the media-streaming set top boxes. Schmidt also revealed that there are more than 200,000 Android activations recorded every day, a figure that falls short of the 230,000 iOS device activations Steve Jobs reported last week.

As for hardware demonstrations, no especially big news from the stage but Schmidt did show augmented Street View functionality for Android; users can now navigate via Street View on their phone in a manner similar to the service on the desktop, dragging the icon around a 3D representation of the map. The CEO also showed close to real-time voice-to-text translation running on an Android device.

You can watch the keynote here at the IFA site. For the other big stories from IFA 2010 check out our full show wrap-up.

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