Beautiful game from meremortal showing amazing quality of Super AMOLED of Samsung Wave. Demonstrated at Mobile World Congress 2010.
Weather application from weatherbug, developed for 2 weeks on the bada platform. Demonstrated at Mobile World Congress 2010.
Motorola DROID running the Android 2.1 Gallery application. twitter.com/randomguyweird
Car racing game from Gameloft using 3D and sensor-controlling features. Demonstrated at Mobile World Congress 2010.
PositionApp Helps Developers Track App Store Performance On The Go
Today, UK design firm ustwo has launched PositionApp, an iPhone application that provides data regarding the top 300 apps in the App Store from the last 6 months. The price of the app would have been $7, but AdMob (well, Google technically) is sponsoring the app so that it is free for the next two months.
Coupled with its launch, ustwo also provided MobileCrunch with some exclusive graphs showing which app categories have been most popular over the last 6 months. Unlike most App Store data, this data comes directly from scraping iTunes, which means that it is a 100% accurate assessment of the App Store. Anyone interested in the App Store should hit the jump and check out what PositionApp has found.
PositionApp is a simple application: ustwo crawls the App Store on an hourly basis and collects data from the top 300 apps across all categories and geographies. They’ve been doing this for 6 months and have now launched an application which enables you to see, in graphs and numbers, what apps have been successful for the last 6 months and what rankings they’ve held. The user interface is slick, but I found that I actually wanted even more data than this app had.
The app is kept up-to-date in real-time so PositionApp will provide you with the ability to check how your app is doing (should it be in the top 300) compared to others. Of course, it is a niche application and likely won’t ever be in the top 300 itself (ironic, isn’t it?), but developers will find it as a good on-the-go resource to tracking App Store successes and failures — or more accurately, successes and near successes.
PositionApp comes with more in-depth features such as country-by-country tracking so you can see how your favorite apps do in different markets. It also lets you see who the biggest movers are, which is a good way to get ahead on
The data that ustwo has been scraping also provides additional insights into the App Store. They put together some graphs to show MobileCrunch readers what app categories are the most popular, both free and paid. The graphs (shown below) show clearly that the App Store is dominated by games (over 50% in paid and 40% in free). Next up is Entertainment applications, followed by Utilities.
After that, it gets dicey. On the free side, Lifestyle and Music applications are clearly doing well (each with about 5% of the top 300). However, there is no clear winning category on the paid side after games, Entertainment and Utilities.
Perhaps equally as interesting are the categories doing the worst. Sports, Navigation, News and Travel are all doing fairly poorly among other paid categories. In free, Weather and Finance can be added to that list as well.
It’s important to remember that many apps go into the top 300 simply because of low price points (Games) and that high-priced applications don’t tend to get enough sales to make it to the top 300 (Navigation). That said, the numbers are surely interesting.
You can download PositionApp on iTunes here.
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this video just shows how great this application is. its like lo jack for your phone. its a must have for your phone. best of all its free just go to android market place type in mobile defense Make an account go on the web www.mobiledefense.com Have fun open up the application and register. then go to your computer and try it out check out my new website its like in beta newyorkakid95.blogspot.com ** This video was uploaded using the wi-fi tether app on my G1
Seesmic for Android was released several months ago and it was met with many positive reviews. I’ve used the Twitter app on and off, but I stuck with Twidroid as my default client because of its multi account support.
We had the pleasure of meeting Seesmic founder Loic Le Meur at CES and I personally begged him for multi account support. It appears quite a few other people requested the feature as well, because Seesmic just updated to version 1.2 and added multi accounts along with a host of other new functions.
Changes for the latest version of Seesmic include:
I had the chance to test out the latest client and it handles multiple accounts quite well. Users can add as many accounts as they want and then jump between them using the menu button.
It would be nice to have a unified inbox like Twidroid, but keeping the accounts separate can also have its benfits. One advantage that Seesmic has over Twidroid is the ability to easily cross post a message to multiple accounts by checking them off on compose screen. (Speaking of the compost screen, Seesmic beats Twidroid hands down with its layout.)
If you tried the first release of Seesmic and were unimpressed, give the latest version a try and let us know what you think. Don’t forget to drop by the official feedback page and give your input and feature requests.
We have to give Seesmic credit for keeping all their Twitter clients relevant while continuing to pump out updates. From Android to the web to the new Look (Twitter for the Oprah crowd), Seesmic is able to service a wide scope of users and they show no sign of slowing down.
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Here is a demonstration at leweb.net conference in Paris of the Seesmic application for Android running on the Archos 5 Internet Tablet with Android, the worlds first Android Tablet with a 800×480 medium density 4.8″ touch screen and even with a 720p HDMI output.
Google Nexus One gets OTA update, multi-touch goodness
When Google announced the Nexus One at an event early last month, one journalist asked, “Why doesn’t this have multi-touch? When is it going to get multi-touch?” Andy Rubin, VP of Engineering at Google, said, “It’s something we’re looking into. It’s just a software thing right now.” Well, today our prayers have been answered via an over-the-air update for the Nexus One. It also has some critical updates and fixes, too.
One of the more painful issues has been the spotty 3G service on the Nexus One. While Google said it was a T-Mobile network problem, some users remained unconvinced. Here’s a quick rundown of what’s included in this update:
Google Goggles: this mobile application will now be available directly on your device by launching it from your All Apps menu. Just use your Nexus One camera to start searching the web
Google Maps: the Maps application with be updated to a new version, Google Maps 3.4, which will include:
- Starred items synchronized with maps.google.com – access your favorite places from your phone or computer
- Search suggestions from your personal maps.google.com history – makes it easy to search for places you’ve searched for before
- Night mode in Google Maps Navigation – automatically changes your screen at night for easier viewing and driving
Pinch-to-zoom functionality: devices will now include a new pinch-to-zoom mechanism in the phone’s Browser, Gallery and Maps applications3G connectivity: we will provide a general fix to help improve 3G connectivity on some Nexus One phones
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Centrl is a free location-based social network on the iphone, Blackberry and Android: centrl.com
We just learned that Automattic has released a native WordPress client for Android. Like Android, the app is an open source project and anyone can add contributions. The app looks quite similar to the unofficial wpToGo and we think that dev was probably involved in this project. A full review will come later, but we wanted to let everyone know the app is now available in the Android Market. If you have a blog powered by WordPress, give it a go and let us know what you think.
Update: Dan Roundhill, the dev of wpToGo, is behind this project. His app wpToGo will be discontinued as all development efforts move forward with the Open Source WordPress for Android app.
WordPress is our preferred blogging platform and has powered this site for the last year. For a taste of what WordPress can do, check out our new mobile site.
From WordPress: We’re pleased to announce that WordPress for Android is now available in the Android Market. The initial release has focused on giving you the ability to manage your blog while on the go.
Features Include:
WordPress for Android is an open source project. You can help develop the next version to make it even better! Get started at dev.android.WordPress.org
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This is how Caripromo Application looks on blackberry Bold 9000. You can get this application straight from blackberry appworld appworld.blackberry.com Or from direct link here www.caripromo.com
Verizon gave me the chance to work with great entrepreneurs like Steve Brown. Stephen I created this little story about the Google Android system and he shot the video himself. I love my Droid. I love his application – Compass and notes and more. Thank you Steve
this is an application for Blackberry, iPhone and Java enabled Phone called Caripromo. get it here at Blackberry Appworld appworld.blackberry.com
We came across Motorola’s SHOP4APPS last month, which was quickly taken down after we found it. I heard rumors that Motorola’s Android application store would launch with the Droid, but that didn’t happen and we began to wonder if the project had been pulled.
Today Motorola finally announced SHOP4APPS which will be included on several Android phones headed to China Telecom and China Unicom. The actual storefront was not revealed, but you can see our preview for a sample of what to expect.
Developers can begin immediately to submit their Android applications for inclusion into the SHOP4APPS store in China at http://developer.motorola.com
No details were provided about a possible United States launch, but we have a strong feeling it will happen eventually. My guess is Google persuaded Motorola to leave it off the Droid at launch, but there should be no reason for them to prevent it now. We like the key features of SHOP4APPS like application discovery and think U.S. customers will enjoy them as well.
Some of the key features within SHOP4APPS include:
What do you guys think? Do we need another app store?
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