The CyanogenMod Team has been a major force driving the AOSP, rooting, and ROMing community forward with over a million devices running their custom ROMs. With this announcement from team member Koush (Koushik Dutta) the creator of ClockworkMod of a CyanogenMod App Store, there appears to be no slowing down. What they intend to do is [...]
It seems to be an overly broad statement, but it really is true. No matter how you look at the Android Market, app quality is low. Pathetically low. I’ve not looked at the numbers lately, but the iOS App Store has around 500,000 apps and Android Market is hovering in the 300,000 app range. It’s [...]
Amazon App Store Now Available for All, Despite US-only Launch Amazon has been getting a lot of press recently with the release of its new Amazon App Store, but there’s just one problem with it. Only US citizens can use it. That is until now. When the new app store came out last week I [...]
The Amazon app store is making headlines once again as it offers a virtual Android device so that users can test the app before they buy it. So far this feature is only available in the US and only works in your desktop’s browser. The great thing about it is that Amazon actually built a [...]
Hands up if you hate Gamelofts current method of distributing its 3D games to Android. Yeah it sucks, but wait! Because its about to suck a little less. Mobile Gaming Giants Gameloft, better known because of their iPhone titles such as N.O.V.A and Asphalt, have announced that they will exclusively be selling their games for [...]
The Nook Color has probably been the most hacked tablet in the Android universe. When people realized how easy it was to root it became all the rage. It started with just getting standard Android 2.1′s interface open on the device. It then moved on to bootable images from the SD card with 2.2 and [...]
If you have AT&T and you are one of the millions or tried to get Angry Birds Rio or one of many other games from the new Amazon App Store this week, then you already know that the Amazon App Store does not support AT&T since they block installation of all third-party apps (non-Android Market). [...]
Steam coming to Android? That would certainly bring the games! Steam is an online distribution “store” where you can download games on your PC or Mac. They have such notable games as Half-Life and Portal. They are a staple in computer based gaming, and would make perfect sense on Android. While it’s completely set in [...]
Apple are at it again and this time they have Amazon in their sights as their next victim in the never-ending battle of the trademark war. With the opening of the Amazon Appstore today, for the US only, Apple are taking action based on that very name. Given that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted [...]
A Mobile Market, 1Mobile Market App Name: 1Mobile Market Description: 1Mobile Market can guide you to the highest quality Android apps for your needs at any given moment. 1Mobile Market Android Alternative Market Application Review How it works: 1Mobile Market is an alternative app store for Android and allows the user to be able to [...]
Does Google Need To Step Up Their Market Regulations To Stop Android Piracy? App developers have started to voice a need for Google to step up their regulations of the Android Marketplace. The Android Market has been continuing to improve lately and Google has taken swift action to remove malware, but developers still think that [...]
Here Comes the Amazon App Store, Launching Real Soon! The Amazon App Store is launching this month, a tweet from ad network Millennial stated: “Launching this month! Amazon Appstore for #Android—learn more here.” The Amazon App Store has been in development for some time now and intends to solve some of the problems Google’s Marketplace has [...]
It isn’t surprising when we see numbers showing exponential growth for the Android Market and all the content associated with it. After all, with over 250,000 apps in almost no time, superlatives are what we’re used to. So the announcement that Market revenues are up an eye-popping 862% are all of the teacher-assigns-homework variety story; [...]
I’m sure you remember Pocketgear. They have been around for a while now providing free and paid apps for Windows Mobile, Palm, Android and also as carrier stores. Recently they have re-launched themselves as appia and they plan to be a very viable app platform, making huge strides throughout 2011. Here are some of the [...]
The Financial Times last month reported that HTC would be opening their own smartphone app store. Fresh job postings on the HTC website appear to substantiate this rumor. Initially it was reported that HTC’s app store would include staff from Taiwan, but currently their job site includes a considerable number of U.S. openings focused on e-commerce. [...]
More than a year ago, Rogers CEO and president Nadir Mohamed, may have hinted on the future of providing services to the customer. Mohamed spoke of three models that were possible for the carrier to remain relevant when dealing with services to the customers. In the third model, he describes an application center that competes [...]
A rumor says that HTC is working on building its own app store for Android. HTC has always been one of the best smartphone manufacturers to come out with new innovations, and they take great pride in that. They were the first to skin Android, they were the first to offer cloud services through the [...]
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 [...]
Amazon is in the content as well as the electronics business, while Best Buy is a major electronics reseller. Are they developing their own brands of Android tablets? Let’s consider the supporting evidence. The two companies are working on (Amazon), or at least considering (Best Buy) their own Android app stores. Why would they want [...]
So have you been excited about the potential of an Amazon Android store? Because it seems you’ll have to wait a lot less than you think. There’s a rumor that Amazon will launch its own Android store by the end of this month. We don’t know exactly when Gingerbread will be announced but Amazon is probably [...]
So Amazon is trying to be the next Market Powerhouse for the Android Community and is being smart by Waiving the $99 Fee for Developers. So what does that mean? well that means (good things) plus you keep some of that coin in your pocket or to help further expand your app’ness. They have begun [...]
We were just discussing yesterday the rumor about Amazon’s own Android store and tablet, and if that will be a good or a bad thing for Android overall, and it seems we have real confirmation that these rumors are true. The agreement document that is forwarded to developers, has been leaked. Here is the full leaked [...]
We’ve just heard about it yesterday that Amazon is planning on creating their own *Android* app store, and get developers to create apps for that store. Now, we have confirmation that Amazon will also make an Android tablet. But let’s take things one at a time. If Amazon creates an app store, along with Verizon’s [...]
The rumor has been working overtime since a post at Androidcommunity.com was brought to light. Amazon could very well have something huge in the works but on the same token, it could be a false alarm and be an over analyzed forum thread. The post refers to an email that a developer received from Amazon [...]
Google themselves said that even the latest version of Android, Froyo, is not quite ready for tablet use. The UI is just not designed with a tablet in mind. Hopefully, this will change with the UI overhaul of Gingerbread, but until then most manufacturers will have to accommodate Android for tablets. To do that they [...]
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. [...]
A new NFL Mobile App is available now in the Android market and it looks to be much better than previous versions. The app was pulled from the market weeks ago to get reworked for the new Droid X release and the results are very good. There is an option to select your favorite team, [...]
For those looking for an alternative to the Android Market, a newcomer has just arrived. General Mobile has just started showing off it’s very own app store. The General Mobile StoreOid App Store will come pre-installed on General Mobile devices, but it should also work on any Android device running 1.6 or later. Currently that [...]
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