Nicole Lee | Aug 29, 2008
Arguably one of the best things to come out of the iPhone 2.0 firmware
update, as well as the launch of the
iPhone 3G, is the ability for
the iPhone to install third-party applications directly to the phone via the App
Store.
These screen shots show the Android phone interface to the Android Market. The software shows what applications can be downloaded and reviews of applications that people are browsing. (Credit: Google)
Well,
Google's new Android OS
will also support such a service in the form of the Android Market.
As Google announced on Thursday, the Android Market is an online marketplace
that will let you find, buy, download, and rate applications (which sounds
eerily similar to the iPhone App Store). And, as you can see from the example
screen shots, it appears that applications like a ringtone editor, a talking
compass, and a barcode scanner, are already in the works.
This brings up the question of the kind of applications we would want for the
Android phone. Access to Google apps like Google Calendar, Google Docs, and
Google Reader is a given (we assume), so that leaves the door wide open for more
innovative applications. We would personally love to see a multi-IM client, and
an Android equivalent of the iPhone's song-identification apps like Shazam would
be nice, too. One thing we would really love is turn-by-turn directions, which
the iPhone currently lacks.
How about you, dear readers? What would you want to see in the Android
Marketplace? What do you think would make a killer app for the Android phone?
Let us know in the comments below.
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