Google has announced that its Android App Store now sports 30,000 applications. The Android App Store reached 10,000 apps back in September 2009, so the growth is pretty good — not iPhone-like, but still quite good. IPhone has over 140,000 apps in its store today.

Google recently revealed that over 60,000 Android headsets are being sold every day.

Samsung, already the second largest handset manufacturer in the world, is taking it to the next level. Banking on their aggressive strategies and cool mobile phones, they are eyeing an ambitious 30% of the European market by selling more handsets in Europe this 2010.

Basing it on what they have been doing so far, this goal is certainly achievable. High-end and high-margin phones are part of their plan and the outlook certainly looks bright for Samsung Electronics. They also make Symbian, Android and Windows Mobile smartphones spread throughout the market to date.

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Google has announced that they’ve released an Android app called Google Shopper, which allows a lot of ways for users to search for products. It supports regular text-based search, voice search, bar code search, and even the cover of the box. Check out the video above for a short introduction by Google.

According to Google, the mastermind behind the Android mobile OS, the OS is now shipping on 60,000 devices every single day, from a variety of phone makers.

If you tally those numbers up, you get 5.4 million per quarters, and how’s that compared to Apple? Well, Apple shipped 8.7 million iPhones last quarter, so Android is still quite behind.

According to an article at TimesOnline, Google is developing speech translation for Android, and not just any speech translation, but speech-to-speech translation — the best kind of translation, if you ask us.

However, Google is noted as saying that speech-to-speech will be possible in a year or two, and will only work “reasonably” in a few years time.

Whether you are a user of the new generation of smart phones or not, you should be aware that some of your readers almost certainly are.  Increasing numbers of blog readers are catching up on their blog reads on mobile devices like the iPhone, Android G1 or the Blackberry Storm.

If you haven’t optimized your site for them you could find your readership declining as more readers take advantage of this method especially while they are travelling.  Nothing is easier for a commuter than to sit on the bus or train and spend the travel time catching up on their blogs with a smart phone.

But how do you achieve this without some serious coding knowledge? Well for Wordpress based bloggers it is actually quite easy, yes, there is a plugin for that.

Called WPtouch this plugin will make sure your blog loads lightning fast on touch mobile devices, show your content beautifully, all while not interfering with your regular theme.  That sounds pretty good to me.