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AppBrain browses Android Market on desktop and “syncs” downloads to phone

Android desktop browser sounds like an oxymoron since Google has insisted on a mobile-only distribution system for Android apps. And while AndroLib and Cyrket have done admirable jobs in making it possible to discover new apps on your desktop, they still require users to keep their phone handy to search or scan barcodes. AppBrain is a [...]

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Android Market now has 30,000 to 35,000 apps

How many apps are in the Android Market? That’s not easy to pin down. Third-party market tracker AndroLib says that the number is 35,000, but a Google employee told Mobile Crunch that the official count maintained by Google is 30,000. A similar discrepancy occurred in December when AndroLib reported that the number of Android apps doubled [...]

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Canada Android users get paid apps!

Paid Android apps are now available in Canada. I repeat: Canadians can now download paid apps. A previous rumor suggested that the Android Market would be upgraded for Canadians to access priced Android apps soon, and I just received word from that the time has finally come. Canadians have long been crying out for access to [...]

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Apple and Google’s spat: Some points you may have missed

The New York Times Technology section recently posted this article, “Apple’s Spat With Google Is Getting Personal”, which discusses the feud between Google and Apple and their places in the mobile computing market. It’s a great article, and I highly recommend reading it. There are a few points that I think are worth highlighting here [...]

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Rumor: Google set to open an Android Market for business? Probably not.

A few people have sent in tips about Google releasing an Android Market geared towards business users. The rumor suggests that the new Market would be a way for Google to highlight Android’s enterprise capabilities, drawing attention away from an app store full of games, soundboards, and “sexy lady” apps. A new market sounds good in [...]

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Review: Door 6’s “Vacuum: The Global Competition”

Door 6, developers of “The Training Mission,” an Android game that finished in the TOP 20 games in ADC2, will soon have something new for Android gamers to try out. “Vacuum: The Global Competition” is scheduled for release on March 20, and offers more incentives for winning than your typical high score entry. Apparently, Door [...]

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Android apps don’t make money…except for one that’s bringing in $13k a month

The Android Market has a negative reputation for providing economic rewards, but one developer has found a way to secure a few bucks – $13,000 a month. Edward Kim created Car Locator as a side project while vacationing with family. His app records and navigates back to GPS location of a car, and originally earned about [...]

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Tips: Android phone won’t download apps? Log-in to Google Talk

My phone won’t download apps from the Android Market! My phone gets stuck downloading apps from the Android Market! You’ve probably experienced this problem at some point and become desperate to discover a fix for the issue. When this started happening to me a few weeks ago, I did some prodding around the Google Help Forums [...]

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Dell Mini 5: Awesome new details emerge

A few weeks ago, Androinica had a short post about the Dell Mini 5 tablet. We speculated that the machine would be a competitor to the iPad, but details were scarce and Michael Dell only confirmed a few features in the brief video shot by Tech Crunch. These included the fact that the machine would [...]

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Rumor: Announcement on paid apps in Canada could come next week

The Montreal Gazette has published a story that says Canadian Android users could finally get a concrete statement about when they will gain access to paid apps in the Android Market. In an article about the 9-month wait to see paid apps in the Market, a Gazette writer says that “Google is working on the [...]

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