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Google to Offer Paid Cellphone Applications

14 Feb, 2009, 1:12 pm IST | Reuters | Windows

Google will allow developers to sell applications for its Android cell phone operating system beginning next week in the United States.


The move is a further step by the search giant into the mobile phone market, where Apple Inc has encountered success with its iPhone. Developers such as Electronic Arts Inc have been anxious to expand sales of their mobile phone games to the Android Market, which has been limited to free applications until now.

Google said in a statement on Friday that consumers will have to pay for the applications via its Google Checkout payment product. Google's Android Market will initially carry paid applications from developers in the United States and Britain, with plans to allow developers in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, France and Spain to participate later this quarter.

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