Google Android AppMarket
Posted on | September 24, 2008 |
Google recently announced its new Android mobile platform, an Open Handset Alliance Project. What’s even more exciting for invidual developers is, it will also have an open application market on the lines of Apple’s AppStore (probably, minus the apple’s strict application inclusion policies). All applications on the Android platform are equal and any app can be replaced with (better?) third party apps, including basic components like home panel or the modem.
Android Appmarket will allow lot of developers to showcase their nifty ideas or build a small business around a niche application, and let google provide visibility to the app. TechCruncher Erick attend T-Mobile press conference and noted several applications already listed in the handset ranging from map and route tracker, cocktail maker, contacts cleaner, the usual to-do list manager, flickr stream viewer and the likes.
Android also has an accelerometer and GPS device, so expect some interesting applications about trekking and hiking coming up fast.
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September 24th, 2008 @ 9:25 pm
Well I’m done being pumped up by Google about this phone and it’s not even out yet…..Why you ask???
Well in the fine print on its G1 site: “If your total data usage in any billing cycle is more than 1GB, your data throughput for the remainder of that cycle may be reduced to 50 kbps or less.” BUT IT GET WORSE!! They can even stop your plan for good..just because I got a cool new phone and want to be a power user!!
Let me break it down: 50 kilobits per second is roughly 6 kilobytes per second — about the speed of the dialup modem
One gigabyte is about how much it takes to download the equivalent of a few albums, a decent quality movie, and a decent quality TV episode — not much. Add to that whatever email, Web browsing, file downloading, app downloading, and whatever else you’ll be doing, and it wouldn’t be far-fetched for the power users that Google is courting to hit that 1 gigabyte cap — 34 MB a day — on a regular basis.
In closing I just want to remind you AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint — offer a more liberal cap: 5 gigabytes
I LOVE YOU GOOGLE DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS!!…before it’s to late