It wasn’t too long ago that Facebook received a decent update, adding Places, Groups, and various fixes. Now Facebook for Android is getting yet another upgrade, version 1.4.1, bringing in higher resolution photo uploads, improved Places, and a few more of those bug fixes. Still another update and no Facebook chat, which many users have [...]
Before you grab your phone and search for Opera Mobile in the Android Market, take notice that this version is beta, and you may experience quite a few issues with it, which is why Opera Mobile 10.1 only has 3 stars in Android Market right now. One other big issue I have with it is [...]
There is a rumor saying that Google will announce that Paypal will be integrated in the Android Market. The Android Market needs all the help it can get to help developers better monetize their apps. Paypal can bring access to paid apps for a lot more countries, and it can also bring in-app payments, which [...]
A few days ago an app called Secret SMS Replicator launched on the Android Market, and it could secretly forward your SMS messages to another phone. Google didn’t like this and it has already removed it from the Market. Because the Android Market is much more open than Apple’s App Store, sometimes stuff like this [...]
Verizon has been hard at work on the upcoming V Cast App Store for Android. The V Cast brand itself has evolved over the years from an OTA music service to the chosen branding of any and all multimedia services offered by the carrier. The V Cast App Store has been a reliable tool to those [...]
The Android Market today crossed another huge milestone, with crossing the 100,000 app threshold. It was tweeted out this morning by the twitter account AndroidDev. If you would like to put this all into perspective just last year arguably the most popular Android device out yet hit store shelves, the Motorola DROID. Even though the [...]
Copilot Live is one of the most popular mobile navigation apps out there, and it’s now being offered in the Android Market for only $4.99. That’s quite an amazing price considering a couple of years ago, an app like this would’ve been sold for twice as much. Google’s own Gmap Navigation must have had a [...]
Archos has released or is in the process of releasing five different Internet Tablets, and none of them can access Android Market. The Market could be sideloaded, but it no longer functioned with Archos’ versions of Android 2.x. But fear not! User m4rk3t at ArchosFans Support Forum has an app that should enable Android Market [...]
That’s Rovio Mobile’s twitter page above, maker of the smash-hit game Angry Birds. How much of a smash is it? The free Android version went live on Friday at GetJar.com, the world’s second largest app store (after iTunes). GetJar got the exclusive through a deal with Glu Mobile, where GetJar provides free, no-ad versions of [...]
An update today to LauncherPro Icons introduced 26 new choices of color. The App is available on the market for $1.99 and is a fast way to download icons and docks straight to your device. The whole color spectrum looks covered. Check it out if you’d like with the barcode below or search LauncherPro Icons [...]
Amazon dominates the e-book market right now, and they have their Kindle app on all popular platforms, including Android and iOS. One of its bigger competitors is Apple’s iBooks which now comes pre-loaded on iOS devices, so Amazon was a bit disadvantaged here, because it didn’t come pre-loaded either iOS devices or Android ones. But [...]
The Nano-phone is here Anyone want a 1.3 inch screen? Check out the LiveView (pictured) Its not really a phone but an accessory or secondary-display as Sony Ericsson are calling it and the fantastic Le Journal du Geek are saying that it will be available from the end of November and should cost around €69 [...]
Google Checkout is not exactly a big way to make money on Android. Developers are forced to use it, and their customers as well if they want to buy apps. And on top of that, Google Checkout doesn’t even work in as many countries as Paypal – only 29, compared to Paypal’s 190. This has [...]
Just a few weeks after their launch with such titles as Fruit Ninja, MiniSquadron and The Moron Test, OpenFeint Launched twelve new games today. So many people have decided to pay for these high quality games, OpenFeint quickly rose to the #1 paid app. spot in just 72 hours. Gamers of the Android world are all rejoicing. [...]
Android Market Explodes The recent inclusion of countries that can now buy paid apps plus the countries from which developers can now sell paid apps is the biggest seismic shift since the app market first opened its doors. From Argentina to Taiwan and Australia to Norway developers across the globe can make it worth their [...]
Developers, rejoice! The Android Market is going to be made available to 18 more countries, making it available in a total of 32 countries, and 20 more countries will receive paid apps, a total of 29. Not bad of an improvement I’d say, but still way too slow overall. The Android Market should be available [...]
Its been a while since most folks have heard that Verizon is planning to make their own application store to compete against Google’s Android Market, right? Well, how this will work, we won’t really know until we see it in action but it can be safe to assume is that the Verizon App Store (V [...]
If you haven’t already checked, an update to the Angry Birds application (Beta 2) is now available in the Android Market. Rovio has been working diligently to prepare Angry Birds for official release. One of the more notable changes is the addition of support for more phones. HTC Evo 4G users have reported on various [...]
Over the past few weeks, we have had a few announcements of several Android tablets coming out for Q4. For some, this is exciting news as we have been waiting all year long for that iPad killer to come along. However, we should realize that with this influx of tablets coming out, you won’t find [...]
It’s hard to compare Apples to Androids, but we do it very often nonetheless. In this case, we are looking at app distribution. The Apple App Store has about 250,000 apps, and nearly 70% cost money, while 30% are free. The Android Market has about 100,000 apps, and is reversed; 35% paid and 65% free. [...]
From what we’ve seen so far, it doesn’t look like stock Android versions 2.1 and 2.2 are ready for the tablet form factor, which is why Notion Ink has been getting some great designers to take care of that. But something just as important as the UI was the access to the Android Market. While [...]
Android phones have been released in 46 countries, yet the ability to purchase apps in Android Market is available in only 13 countries. Some people think that this is an invitation for piracy. You have this cool phone, made cooler by the addition of apps. Some of the better apps cost money. Without legitimate access [...]
AppCircle from Flurry, is a “massive cross-selling network among participating apps that use Flurry Analytics.” It also feature a smart recommendation system like the ones you see at Amazon, iTunes, or Netflix, so it should be a lot better at recommending apps that you would like. This way developers will be able to monetize their [...]
Earlier today Google made some announcements about some cool new features. One was about Chrome to Phone and the other was Voice Actions. After this went public, the folks at Vlingo responded by making their own app free! Previously Vlingo sold in the Android market for $9.99 and let me tell you, it is worth [...]
Google sent out an announcement that on today on August 12th they will be unveiling some cool new mobile features. There is much speculation on what this could mean. The last time Google made such a proclamation we were given Google Maps Navigation. Some blogs are reporting changes in the Android Market’s interface, though I [...]
We have all seen these lists before. Every so often you see a top 5 list about some type of application. This isn’t my first top 5 keyboard app either. But that is the beauty of Android. There are always new keyboards being added to the market, and some of the best get put into [...]
When we reported on AppBrain’s claim that 6,000 spam apps from three developers had disappeared from the Market, we naturally wanted to confirm whether Google had in fact removed them, or if the developers had done so themselves. We haven’t heard anything from Google, but one of the developers let us know how he was [...]
If you were to ask any avid user of Android what one of the glaring problems of the platform is, most likely you would hear either about fragmentation, or the fact that the app Market has some significant hurdles to overcome. We have long talked about the fact that to attract new developers to create [...]
“I know it when I see it.” That’s Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart’s definition of obscenity, a key ingredient of what is porn and what is not. But Justice Potter was virtually blind when he said this. Despite developer guidelines for Android Market, Google has been virtually blind to some of the racier apps offered. [...]
Google is changing the Android Market Developer Distribution Agreement (DDA), ostensibly to pave the way for direct carrier billing for Android apps. The move should spur an increase in Android apps and Android Market sales, but may be a double-edged sword for IT admins and users. A post Friday on the Android Developers blog, announced [...]
Google announced its second quarter 2010 earnings on Thursday, and the earnings conference call painted a rosy picture of the current state of Android. According to Google CFO Patrick Pichette, and Senior VP of Product management Jonathan Rosenberg, Android is currently not a huge resource investment for Google but promises a “formidable return” as the [...]
Music discovery service, Shazam, has announced that they now have two versions of their Android application. First up Shazam Freemium which is essentially the same version many of us have come to know and love. The only difference now is that users are limited to five tags per month. Once asong is identified (tagged), [...]
Not to be confused with McDonald’s 1 billion burgers sold,AndroLib’s reporting that an estimated 1 billion+ Android apps have been downloaded through the Android market. The popular application database (complete with remote installation and synchronization tools) makes it easy for users to discover new apps and quickly install them to their devices. They’re also boasting [...]
The Android Market is the most wallet-friendly app store based on a recent report from analytics service Distimo. According toDistimo’s June report, the percent of free apps listed in the Android Market is 57 percent, which is twice as high as almost every other app store. The Apple App Store, Blackberry App World, Nokia Ovi [...]
Tetris by EA Mobile has been available for Android almost as long as Android has been out, but it’s never been on Android Market. Previously, the only way to get the game was to download it through EA’s mobile site and pay around seven dollars. I say previously because now, two years later, Tetris is [...]
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