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Google Changes Distribution Agreement for the Android Market

Mountain View-based Google has just made a series of changes to the Android Market agreement that all developers need to accept. According to Google, the new changes and agreement will have to be accepted by all developers, as long as they want their applications to be distributed / sold through the Android Market, a...

11 November 2009
04:50 GMT

T-Mobile to Offer Carrier Billing for the Android Market

Wireless carrier T-Mobile seems determined to offer as many features as possible to its Android subscribers, and it is now set to soon add carrier billing for the Android Market, as well as its own channel within the software portal. According to the company, this feature will offer recommendations on the content ava...

5 November 2009
08:24 GMT

Facebook and Pandora Apps on the Android Market

Android fans around the world have now at least two more reasons to rejoice, as two new applications are available for their devices on the Android Market. The first of them is a Facebook application, which has been introduced to the Android Market in a rather silent manner, while the second is a Pandora app, which b...

9 September 2009
06:37 GMT

Android Market for Android 1.6 Gets New Face

It seems that most of the major mobile phone operating systems available today on the market are getting ready to show new faces into the wild in the near future. Windows Mobile 6.5 is getting closer and closer to its October 6 launch date, the iPhone OS 3.1 should come around in the near future too, and now we learn...

4 September 2009
09:48 GMT

Open Gesture Pro and Amazon App Available via Android Market

Android phone users have now two more applications available for them via the popular Android Market. The first of them, Open Gesture Pro, is a shortcut-friendly home screen app that offers users the possibility to launch shortcuts for common applications and settings through different gestures. The second app has be...

5 August 2009
05:07 GMT

Google Cupcake Users Unable to Access the Android Market

Google released into the wild only a few days ago a new version of its mobile phone operating system, namely the Android 1.5, also known as the Cupcake. While this is good new for those who have a G1 phone, since there are a lot of improvements and bug fixes included in the new release, it seems that limitations are ...

17 April 2009
11:05 GMT

G1 Users Download More Apps Than iPhone Ones

Android mobile phone users are reported to have downloaded more applications to their handsets than iPhone users, says a recent study from T-Mobile. The wireless operator reports that G1 Android users have downloaded an average of 40 applications for their devices in comparison with the 37 downloaded by iPhone owners...

6 April 2009
11:42 GMT

Android Market Might Soon See Improvements

Those who own an HTC Dream (or T-Mobile G1) mobile phone and have accessed the Android Market a few times already are aware of the fact that there are some improvements that could still be made to the software portal. The rest of us also know this, given the fact that a T-Mobile representative already stated a while ...

30 March 2009
09:39 GMT

Android Market Could Use Improvements, Says T-Mobile CTO

The Android Market has become a popular service since it was launched, and the average user of an Android-based G1 phone at T-Mobile USA is reported to have downloaded around 40 apps from the marketplace, yet it seems that the number could be improved significantly, at least this is what T-Mobile CTO Cole Brodman is ...

18 March 2009
09:37 GMT

Android Market in the UK to Offer Paid Apps

T-Mobile UK announced yesterday that paid applications were also available on Android Market for the users in the UK, meaning that all those that live in the country and own a G1 phone would be able to enjoy the new feature of the marketplace.T-Mobile stated that 20 percent of its current sales were G1 devices. At th...

13 March 2009
12:38 GMT

Paid Apps on Android Market Unavailable for Dev 1 Phones

It seems that a bunch of users will not be able to enjoy the applications that are offered on the Android Market. Not all of them, indeed, but those that you will have to pay for are not available for purchase for users who own an Android Dev 1 version of the HTC Dream. It seems that Google decided to make this move...

27 February 2009
04:44 GMT

Android Market Accepts Only Apps Under $200

It seems that Google will not allow developers to add to its Android Market applications that will cost more than $200. As many of you might already know, the search engine's app store for the mobile handset operating system has been opened for paid apps only about a week ago. From what we've heard, the p...

24 February 2009
10:33 GMT

Strategy Game Available for the Android Platform

Noble Master Games announced recently that it had released its medieval strategy game for mobile phones with support for the new Google Android operating system. The company's Aevum Obscurum is a risk-like turn-based strategy game that can be played online or downloaded to a device that has Internet connection. ...

24 February 2009
06:49 GMT

Android Market Policies and Guidelines Published

Google has recently published the “Android Market Business and Program Policies.” There are some interesting aspects noted there worth mentioning. Among the first of them is the fact that “Only users 13 years of age or older are permitted to use Android Market,” while users under 18 can u...

18 February 2009
05:21 GMT

Paid Apps Made It to Android Market

We have recently reported that rumors floating around the Web pointed towards the fact that Google plans to accept paid apps on its Andoid Market as soon as this week. Well, it seems that those rumors were true after all, as a recent post on the Android Developers blog officially announced the move. Moreover, the pos...

14 February 2009
04:42 GMT

Paid Android Apps Might Come on Android Market Next Week

According to the latest news on the Web, Google might start to offer paid apps in the Android Market as soon as next week. The search giant was expected for quite a while now to start offering premium, for-pay Android applications, but they were expected to surface on the Android Market only in the middle of the year...

11 February 2009
10:20 GMT

Android Market Available in Five New Countries

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 f...

20 January 2009
02:23 GMT

Google Android Market Will Offer Free Trials

The Android Market is designed to be for Google's Android phones (or, better said, for T-Mobile's G1 since it is the only Google Android phone on the market right now), what the App Store is for iPhones, meaning the place where users can download applications for their mobile devices.It is already a known f...

3 October 2008
10:13 GMT

Android Market Confirmed, Screenshots Available

Google's Android mobile platform will indeed have a so-called Android Market embedded in it, as we reported yesterday. Presented as "a user-driven content distribution system," Android Market was unveiled for the first time, in screenshots and details, on the official Android Developers Blog. Somehow simila...

29 August 2008
10:57 GMT


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