Gartner: Sales of Android devices will reach one billion this year

More than a billion Android devices will be sold in 2014 , according to the latest forecast by Gartner . The firm said that the operating system will be 1.1 billion tablet , intelligent telephones , clocks and other devices will be sold this year , an increase of 26 % compared with 2013.

However , the author of the report said that Google will not benefit from this growth . Sales of Android devices are growing rapidly in China , but many devices are stripped of Google services .

In addition figures include sales of the Amazon Kindle Fire tablet , coming on another version of the operating system . However , the analyst said that the search giant has acquired a strong position in the market of intelligent devices .

The report predicts that Microsoft's various systems will be 360 million new devices sold in 2014, an increase of 10% from the previous year. He also predicted that Apple systems, iOS and Mac OS will be installed on equipment purchased 344 million, representing an increase of 28% compared with 2013.