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Matt Cutts, the head of Google webspam, made official this week that he is leaving his iPhone to the Nexus One at least for 30 days.

Matt had the G1 as a Google employee Christmas gift back in 2008 and used it along with his iPhone but once the Google covered G1 mobile plan expired he shifted back to solely using his iPhone.

The picture above I took with him in the speaker lounge at PubCon South in Austin Texas, about a year ago, just before SXSW when he had abandoned his own G1 and later in the year his hair.

There are already over 100 different Android phone choices worldwide scheduled to be made available in 2010 after the recent announcements at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt declared today at the Mobile World Congress keynote that Google and their hardware partners are now shipping 60,000 Android handsets each day.

That would total almost 22 million Android handsets a year which is in line with iPhone’s historical yearly sales.

Mattel announced on Friday that the popular vote of the I Can Be contest decided that Barbie’s next career, at the age of 50, will be as a Computer Engineer complete with a smartphone that may just be an Android phone.

The Barbie I Can Be vote started on January 11th and lasted a month just in time to possibly purchase for your tech savvy Valentine.

The vote for a Computer Engineer Barbie was most likely helped by a TechCrunch posting & a Reddit campaign.

As an aside from my rants on the conduct of Apple, the users of  Android are now sharing the usage trending of those of the iPhone as both sets of users greatly increased their mobile social media use.

The reasoning perhaps to why Android follows a similar usage path as the iPhone may be that it is now more mainstream thanks to the Verizon Droid advertising push last year and Google itself debuting the Nexus One.

Although it seems Google gives away more N1s for free at conferences than it sells.

Six months ago Eric Schmidt the CEO of Google resigned from the board of directors at Apple at the beginning of August 2009 so was a 6 month rule enacted?

In the Urban Dictionary after six months without sex, a man may have sex with anyone he see’s fit so was this applied in regard to multitouch on Android after Eric has gone approximately 6 months without “inter-coursing” with Apple?

The actual resignation announcement came on August 3rd, 2009 but I agree with Sean Riley at AndroidandMe the actual resignation itself may have occurred the day before which would be exactly 6 months prior to the February 2nd, 2010 pinch to zoom availability announcement for the Nexus One.