The results are captured using Android software and a smart phone allowing the results to be sent instantly, thus fertilizer and organic matter recommendations can be made in less than two days.
Investors now wonder whether Apple will eventually become a niche player in the market it invented in 2007, as it loses share to Samsung and other manufacturers using Android software.
Using Android software tools, Raytheon engineers built a basic application for military personnel that combines maps with a buddy list.
"They are almost all using Android software, which captured 89% share of the entire market in the quarter," the analyst added.
Inside China, about 450 million phones and 200 million tablets use Android software – albeit without access to the Google search engine.
The acquisition, Google's largest to date and an all-cash deal, would put the company in head-to-head competition with its own business partners, the many phone makers that use Android software, as well as with Apple.
Manufactured by Huawei, the EE Kestrel uses Android software.
The company tightly guards its Apple Watch sales figures, but researchers see numbers slipping in favor of wearables that use Android software – made by Apple's arch-rival Google.
In the second quarter, the company took 53 percent of the profit in the global smartphone market, with Samsung Electronics, which uses Google Android software to run its smartphones, taking the rest, according to a survey by Canaccord Genuity, an investment bank.
Google's own stats show that more than half of the devices connecting to Google Play in the past month are using Android 2.3 or earlier - software that's more than two years old.
