Posts Tagged ‘App Shop’
HTC to introduce app store?
HTC is supposedly hiring staff in an attempt to build its very own mobile applications store.
This was the claim made today by the Financial Times, which supposed two sources with knowledge of the situation confirmed an online store for e-books and apps was in the offing.
The Taiwanese firm’s phones presently run Google’s Android mobile operating system (OS), over and above Microsoft’s new Windows Phone 7 OS, meaning if an app store were to open it would go into direct competition with Android’s Market and Window’s Marketplace.
One source whispered HTC was in the process of hiring content editors for e-books, magazines and handsets, in addition to mobile apps. The team will start out small and be based in HTC’s homeland of Taiwan, before expanding to 100 people across the globe, added the source.
We contacted HTC for comment on the tender but a representative just told IT PRO: “We don’t comment on rumour and speculation.”
HTC has been growing progressively stronger over the course of the year, thanks to the detonation of smartphones. Nonetheless, even with a third quarter profit of £1.6 billion, it only places fifth in producer league tables behind Nokia, Apple, RIM and Samsung, according to a recent report by IDC.
Orange launches mobile app shop in Europe
Christophe Francois, Vice President Mobile Multimedia at Orange took to the phase at this years Le Web 2009 to proclaim the Orange App Shop.
Originally the service will be obtainable in the UK and France but will roll out to Spain, Poland, Romania, Switzerland, Slovakia, Belgium, Austria, Moldova and Portugal next year. The Orange App Shop will propose 5,000 relevances, games, ringtones and wallpapers for multiple gadgets. The App Shop is planned to be multi dais and multi gadget. Orange plan to roast a home-screen idol into Orange smartphone and trait phone devices to offer access to the shop.
Francois depicted the App Shop as “providing local services” for local areas. The service will be disseminated to 1 million handsets wirelessly by the end of December and will appear preloaded on gadgets for instance the Nokia 6700 and Sony Ericsson W995. According to The Telegraph, Orange plans to enlarge the service to Samsung, LG, HTC, Motorola and BlackBerrys gadgets shortly.
The subsequent phones will mechanically receive the update:
Nokia 6303
Nokia 6700