In spite the discontinuation of Google Wave, there is still reason to celebrate for Google. The good news is that sales of smartphones running the company's Android operating system continue to skyrocket. Google has countered its announcement that it was discontinuing its experiment in collaboration by saying that Android smartphone activations have reached 200,000 a day.

The figure shows an increase of more than 200 percent since the first quarter of this year. During that period, activations of Android phone amounted to around 65,000 a day. If sales of Android phones become static, which hasn't been the case all year, from August 1 to the end of the year, 30 million new handsets would be sold.

Just two months ago, sales of Android phones were at 100,000 a day. The figure then jumped to 160,000 a month later. Given the incremental increases, some people are estimating that at least 30 million headsets would be sold by the end of the year.

The sales would be detrimental to other smartphone makers. Research In Motion, the maker of the BlackBerry smartphone, has seen its market share shrink by nine percent in the US. Android sales in the US have also passed the smartphone market leader, Apple, the maker of iPhone. Nielsen figures have the Android at around 27 percent of all smartphone sales in the country during the first half of the year. Apple's figure was at 23 percent.