It seems that T-Mobile USA is now passing out a brochure detailing what it thinks are the best apps available on Android. Customers who purchase an Android phone will receive a guide detailing some of the apps most recommended by T-Mobile and QR codes to find them.
I’ve made a couple of snide remarks about T-Mobile’s choice of apps to highlight, but I must commend this effort. This guide is a great starting point for new users to learn about QR codes and find some of the Best Android apps to play with, so I must applaud the guide even if I disagree with some of the actual apps selected to go into it.
T-Mobile has made many pitches for its Android phones – search for the G1, customization for myTouch, and social networking for CLIQ – so it’s good to see them continue promoting the thing that ties them all together – apps. An OS is only as good as the apps it offers, and T-Mobile is doing a great job of spreading that message. A couple of interesting notes on this guide:
- Quite a few of the apps listed in this guide do not appear in T-Mobile’s App Pack. It seems T-Mobile went outside the tent to have tech writer Stewart Wolpin be the “App Master” and select the apps on this list.
- The guide lists three emulators among the best paid games, which surprised me given the quasi-legal-semi-illegal nature of emulators. You usually don’t see major corporations sanctioning such things.
- T-Mobile promoted Open Home and dXtop as paid apps yet they don’t mention aHome, made by the same people T-Mobile hired to create its FreshFace app.
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November 18th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
someone should find, and post a pdf version, or at least a higher res version, it'd be nice to see what they said about each app.
November 18th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
That easy money app is described as free, but it's a 30 day evaulation.
November 18th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
i can read them just fine. make sure you double-click on the images once they're loaded in the browser so you know your browser isn't shrinking them down. They're easily readable even on my monitor with resolution cranked high.
November 20th, 2009 at 12:29 am
At the very least, high res might make the QR codes scannable. Are these brochures just in the stores or are they being handed out elsewhere?
November 20th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
Good move by T-Mobile. Verizon should follow suit and drop the geek-targeted horrible ads that are totally ignoring mass market. Android also needs a desktop client like iTunes…like yesterday!!. it would be more widely adopted.
November 20th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Agree with Trevor about desktop client!!! I don't know if I would highlight these as the best the market has to offer. Kinda shows how pathetic the market is right now.
Google should take notice that there are 4-5 task killers in the top 15 paid apps and MAKE IT A FREAKING INCLUDED FUNCTION. WTH were they thinking here. Are they intentionally trying to pi$$ people off so they return their new Android device becasue of slow-downs. If I were a carrier, I would demand Google include one of these app kill apps as standard on the homescreen.