APPS, APPS AND MORE APPS!
We're very excited about this section of the site, we hope to
categorise (green navigation bar above) the type of apps available,
review apps and get your all important feed back so please feel free to
join in the discussions and give your own opinions. In the meantime,
for those of you new to the android experience and are looking to find
out more about the G1 phone and its apps please read on and find out
what all the rage is about.
What are 'apps'?
'Apps' are quite simply an abbreviation of the word 'applications',
they will live on your G1 phone. The use of apps can vary depending on
what you require, for example, you may want to have an app that lets
you know the weather globally or you might even want to have an
application that lets you know what time your next train is due, the
ability to customise your G1 phone with apps will be endless. When
you've finished with your app or you would like to add another they
will be both easily downloadable and removable.
Where can we get apps from?
There will be a central online marketplace to view and download apps
which will be know as the 'android market'.
What makes android apps any different from other competitors?
This is where Google's android platform has been particularly radical.
Google have made the android platform 'open source', which is great
news for people like you and me. Open source is a development idea
whereby anyone can add, develop and design for the great good of the
android platform, basically, Google has given the android platform to
the world to develop and that means that most of the applications
available will be free, no that's not a typo I wrote FREE!
Pre installed apps
Those lucky enough to get their hands on a T-mobile G1 phone for
christmas will have a number of Google apps pre installed on the
handset such as Google Search, Google maps street view, Gmail, YouTube
and other popular Google software that PC users are familiar with.
If you would like to ask anymore questions regarding android apps
please contact us
