An e-mail from Google’s Eric Chu informs developers of the plan

Jan 20, 2009 07:23 GMT  ·  By

Google’s Eric Chu has contacted Android Developers to inform them of the fact that the Android Market can now be extended to several new countries. According to the news, not all of the targeted countries have at this moment Android-capable phones but, by the time they will, a range of applications to choose from will already be available for them.

For the time being, there are no specific details on how Android will actually be released in those new markets. One thing that we can be sure of is the fact that developers can start to deliver apps for these areas right away.

According to an article on phandroid, Eric Chu has delivered the following e-mail:

"Hello,

I’m writing to let you know that Android Market will become available to users in Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Netherlands, and Poland in the coming weeks. You can now target these countries for your application(s) via the publisher website at market.android.com/publish. As we add support for additional countries, we will send out subsequent notifications to you. Note that your apps will not become available in these new countries unless you specifically select them in the publisher website.

Thanks for your support, and we look forward to continue working with you on Android Market.

Eric Chu, Android Market"

As you can see from the e-mail, users in five European countries will now benefit from the Android Market as well. It is still unclear what developers can target those new countries with, or whether they will have to take into account different targeting metrics like screen size or hardware specs as well. Perhaps things will become more clear as soon as those markets will provide a wide range of Android phones for users to choose from, so stay tuned to learn more about the plan once new details surface.