Qualcomm and TIM Brazil just announced that TIM Brazil will launch their Qualcomm powered application store in the first quarter next year, running on its full range of handsets. Hence it will be available to its 40 million subscribers in Brazil. There are no details yet on revenue share, but we expect TIM to announce that in the near future.

The store is powered by Qualcomm’s Plaza Retail solution, which is “a flexible and scalable mobile retail solution that enables application retailers to create and manage rich, highly personalized  shopping experience across diverse platforms, devices and networks”. It includes a multi-platform client, web, or mobile web (WAP) storefront. Plaza Retail is capable of supporting JAVA, Brew, Flash and Android, with Windows Mobile, Symbian, Palm and LiMo to be added in the future. We have added the TIM App Store to our App Store Overview.