Google Predicts 18 Android Phones This Year

At the Google I/O Developer Conference yesterday, the company announced that it expects at least 18 Android phones to ship in 2009, according to an industry report. Google also announced that it will launch part two of its Android Developer Challenge contest in early August.

Google I/O wraps up today, touching upon a wide variety of development issues, such as the new “Google Web Elements” widgets that can be added to websites, and a “Google Wave” rich-media communication and collaboration technology that combines email, IM, and photo-sharing.¬†