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Sony Ericsson’s XPERIA To Feature Android Apps In PlayNow Arena

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

Sony Ericsson’s new phone, the XPERIA X10 will be available in selected markets in the first quarter of 2010. Previously we reported on the decision of Sony Ericsson to pre-install Android Market, now however they announced that PlayNow will be pre-installed on the device. Sony Ericsson doesn’t report anything about whether Android Market will still be pre-installed on the device as well.

Sony Ericsson invited developers to submit Android applications to PlayNow right, which can be done here. Besides Android, PlayNow Arena supports Java, Symbian, Flash Lite and Windows Mobile content. The revenue share for developers is 70%, the same as on Android Market and for distributing other content than Android apps using PlayNow.

We have updated the store in our app store overview on appstores.info

EDIT: Sony Ericsson just tweeted about the fact that Android Market will be available on all SE Android Phones and will not be replaced with PlayNow.

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Sony Ericsson Announces Its First Android Device

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

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Sony Ericsson just announced the Xperia X10, their first device with Android. According to Gizmodo, it is planned for release in the first quarter of 2010. Initially at least, Sony Ericsson planned to pre-install Android 1.6. Interestingly, although Sony Ericsson has it’s own “PlayNow Arena” application store, Google Android Market will be present on the device as well:

Going out? Finding out? Or perhaps just chilling out? Download any application you want from Android Market™ and customise your Xperia™ X10 to make it exclusively yours.

Sony Ericsson could have pre-installed its own PlayNow Arena store on the device, just like Vodafone Egypt did with the SlideMe application store. They chose not to, and it will be interesting to see whether this choice is an indication of what is to come from Sony Ericsson.

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First apps in Sony Ericsson app store, mainly paid

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

At the beginning of June, Sony Ericsson announced the addition of applications to their already existing store for mobile content, PlayNow arena.

Now, the first applications are available in the store. We made an overview of what is available today.

Content

Both paid and free applications are available. The store supports J2ME and Symbian platforms. Today, 85 applications are available, of which 5 are free. Paid applications are priced between €2,50 and €10.

Free content is delivered by Getjar. The publishers with the most paid apps in PlayNow arena are Handmark and Lonely Planet.

All free and paid application are categorized in these categories:

  • Applications
  • Communication
  • Education
  • Entertainment
  • Games
  • Health and Lifestyle
  • Language
  • Messaging
  • Music
  • Other
  • Productivity
  • Security
  • Sport
  • Travel
  • Web application (e.g. browsers)

Developers can submit their applications on submit.sonyericsson.com.

Phone & country support

Applications are offered in the 13 countries that currently support PlayNow arena. The store is compatible with 38 Sony Ericsson phone models and will roll out to further markets and models over the year.

Billing

Right now credit card and premium SMS billing are available in PlayNow.

We will track the available applications in PlayNow arena; it will be interesting to see how fast more free and paid content will be available and when the store will be accessible directly from the phone. We also updated this in our mobile app store overview.

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Sony Ericsson announces app store: PlayNow arena

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

Sony Ericsson announced its mobile app store: PlayNow arena. The PlayNow portal has been available for a longer period, offering music, games, ringtones, wallpapers and themes. Now it will also offering applications.

What will be in there?
Both paid and free applications will be available. Content will be delivered by Getjar , supporting J2ME and Symbian. Developers can start submitting their applications from July 1st on submit.sonyericsson.com.

Phone & country support
Applications will be offered in the 13 countries that currently support PlayNow arena. The service platform, which is compatible with 38 Sony Ericsson phone models, will roll out to further markets and models over the year. 

Billing
Right now credit card and premium SMS billing are available in PlayNow. 

Aapplications in PlayNow arena will be made available for consumers later this year. The exact date is yet undisclosed however. We added PlayNow arena to our mobile app store overview.

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