The Android Market has smashed through the 10 billion app download mark and has achieved a growth level of 1 billion app downloads each month!
This is pretty impressive, even by the standards we’ve come to expect from Google. The Android OS now dominates the mobile phone market, despite the iPhone 4S capturing a big chunk of smartphone sales (42.8%) in October Apple’s iOS is still at 27.8% compared to Android’s 46% share.
To celebrate the 10 billion downloads news, Google is running a 10 Billion Promo in the Android Market. For the next 10 days you can buy 10 of the most popular apps in the marketplace for just 10p. Set to change daily, these are the apps currently included in the offer:
- SoundHound
- Asphalt 6: Adrenaline HD
- Minecraft: Pocket Edition
- SwiftKey X Keyboard
- Endomondo Sports Tracker
- Great Little War Game
- SketchBook Mobile
- Fieldrunners HD
- Color & Draw for kids:phone ed
- 10. Paper Camera
In other OS news, RIM has been forced to rethink its BBX naming because of a trademark dispute. Revealed via Twitter, the official name of the new OS, expected in the middle of 2012, is BlackBerry 10.
Unveiled back in October, the hoped-for name of BBX was to reflect the fact the next-generation platform is a mix of the BB OS and QNX software that fuels the PlayBook tablet. However, the new OS will now be called BlackBerry 10.
The first BlackBerry 10 device is rumoured to be the BlackBerry Colt, which is expected to land with a 4-inch+ display and slim design, 1.2GHz processor, front and rear-fitted cameras, no physical keys, and a battery similar to the PlayBook device’s.
Name aside, the next-gen platform will become the single OS for BlackBerry phones and tablets, and support 2D and 3D gaming as well as Android apps.
Watch this space for further developments as they happen, on BlackBerry 10!
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