The Mobile World Congress will be held in Barcelona, 15 – 18 February, organized by the GSMA. On Monday 15th, Vincent Hoogsteder will give a presentation during the “Mobile Applications – Innovation Vs Fragmentation” event: The success of Apple and their App Store seems to have taken the mobile industry unawares – as a consequence [...]
Steve Jobs announced the iPad at his keynote a few hours ago. Aside from all the features of the device, he talked about the App Store and the iBooks app/Store as well. The iPad will be able to run (almost) all applications currently available in the App Store for the iPhone/iPod Touch. These applications will [...]
It is our pleasure to release our monthly Distimo Report, based on December 2009 data. This report covers five application stores: Apple App Store, BlackBerry App World, Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store and Windows Marketplace for Mobile. This month’s most important findings are: In Google Android Market, 65% of the publishers are located in [...]
Last August, Acer announced plans to open an own application store. These plans are now getting more clear; the company just said it will be launching an application store mid this year: The application store will be unveiled around the middle of the year with software to support Google’s Android platform, currently used on Acer’s [...]
The Samsung Application Store was already available in the UK, France and Italy, but now Samsung announced its launch in Germany and Singapore. End of this month Brazil and China will also be added to the supported countries list. The store has been available since September last year and now offers 549 applications. From mid-February, [...]
Last December the first signs came out that Motorola was planning to launch an own Android application store. Now the store, called SHOP4APPS, is officially launched in China. The store will be new pre-installed on Motorola smartphones in China starting in time for Chinese New Year (February 14, 2010). Next to offering the store on [...]
As Apple is rumored to announce its Tablet next Wednesday, Amazon will announce its App Store for Kindle this Thursday, according to The New York Times. The store will contain so called ‘active content’ for the Kindle, which may be considered similar to Applications in Apple’s App Store. Amazon will have the common revenue share [...]
Updated: No new Ovi Store yet, but free turn-by-turn navigation with Ovi Maps. Nokia is holding a high-profile press event this Thursday in London. Nokia said the announcement relates to Ovi and there is a lot of noise that they will release the new Nokia Ovi Store. Last December, Nokia’s George Linardos (VP Product & [...]
As announced previously, LG just released its first Android device, the GW620 (LG InTouch max). Interestingly, LG touts the personalisation options of the phone through Google Android Market: Personalise your phone with a series of apps to suit you, from news and weather apps, to games apps, and your favourite social networking apps including Facebook [...]
FreewarePocketPC is a web based storefront for free Windows Mobile applications that currently offers 6,700 titles. After a few months in beta, they now launched a new application store for free Windows Mobile Apps, called OpnMarket. OpnMarket is an on-device store that supports Windows Mobile touch screen phones. Currently, 500 free applications are available. Users [...]