Posted: June 17th, 2010 | Author: TimConneally | Filed under: hardware | Tags: Android, cliq, cutting edge, droid, entry level, free, handy, moto, motoblur, motorola, nerd, new, phone, smartphone, superphone, telecommunications, x, xt | No Comments »
Wirefly is offering the Cliq XT Titanium for free with a 2-year contract/data plan. Cliq XT has no physical keyboard, LED flash 5 megapixel camera, FM radio tuner, and touch-sensitive trackpad. 3.1″ touchscreen, MotoBLUR (based on Android 1.5), 802.11 Wi-fi, and A2DP Bluetooth. It’s a decent phone that didn’t get a lot of hype. If you know somebody up for upgrade on T-Mo, or somebody looking for a free entry-level smartphone that you’d like to turn onto Android, this is a damn good start.
All the way at the other end of Motorola’s line is the upcoming Droid X. It’s going to be huge in size and power and I’m going to go up to New York next week to get in on the launch event. Bear in mind, they didn’t invite me this time even though I’ve gone to the launch of two other Motorola Android devices this year and Sanjay Jha is my bro. I emailed them today, though…so I should be covering it quite thoroughly when they get back to me. …And with my newfound love for instant YouTube videos, I’ll have tons of hands-on video of it.
The particularly funny thing about the Droid X ad above is that it’s INCORRECT. The Droid X absolutely does not have an HD screen. It can capture HD video, but that’s different.
Posted: September 2nd, 2009 | Author: TimConneally | Filed under: Android, Lifestyle | Tags: Android, android market, app, bought, buy, caveman, coding, cowpotato, downloads, facts, free, froogloid, guitar, how many, how well, itunes, jtribe, market, my, paid, pedersen, popular, quote of the day, sales, sell, sold, solo, statistics, stats, store, today, tommy, trial, useless, yesterday | 2 Comments »
Sure enough, after all the fuss thrown up over the state of the Android Market, it turns out that we could track sales all along, and Jtribe released a free app in the second week of August simply “Android Market Stats” that attempts to chart the progress of Android’s ecosystem, and in doing so, lends credence to the notion that the Android Market is pathetic.
We’ve been collecting data on the Android Market for the past 8 months and publishing it on androidstats.com. We have been able to watch the Android Market grow to it’s current size of just over 7000 apps and almost 3000 publishers, recording every movement made within the market…Considering all this, along with app price and days on sale within the market, we have been able to determine the monthly revenue from the (US only) Android Market to be closer to $1M USD.
Well…that’s even less than was predicted a couple of weeks ago.
But let’s not feel sad. The good news is that we don’t have to guess any more, we can use Jtribe’s statistics, which are gathered completely independently of Google. We may not be as prosperous as the iTunes app store yet, but at least we can revel in our open data.
Jtribe’s app lets you check the week’s biggest movers, check price changes that took place the previous day, or browse the market as you normally would.
It lets you filter the apps according to which ones are for pay and which ones are free, or you can check out all of them at once. You get a clear picture of who’s hot, and how much they’re making if they’re charging. In today’s top overall rankings, there’s actually only one paid app, a game called Brain Twister by The Game Boss, which was bought 150 times today.
UPDATE: I misunderstood what the numbers next to each app stood for. As Chris from Froogloid informed me (see below) these numbers do not correspond to number of times downloaded (which I thought seemed really really low) but instead, are numerical rankings. I have altered my post accordingly. Thanks Chris, keep up the great work!
As someone remarked on the Techcrunch article I linked to the other day, Android is not a gaming platform*…and the Android Market Stats app shows it clearly. Today’s most popular game, CowPotato 3D by Froogloid (the guys who made the Keyring rewards card app) was downloaded 304 times, then SuperYatzy-free edition by Tommy Pedersen was the second most downloaded with 162.
Android Market Stats app by jtribe
All the data in the app is also available on Androidstats.com, where you can do the same comparison of free and paid apps.
Hopefully, the guys at Jtribe will get my pingback and let us know a little bit more about their methodology.
It’s a rather dull app, unless you’re a stats fan (which I am), so having the ability to track the Android Market’s progress is very exciting to me.
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