Google has announced that a totally new Android Market experience will be landing on the HTC EVO and other Android devices in a few weeks.
For now there has not been a specific date announced as to when this will be available, but the features to be found will help to streamline your phone-based Market experience. Purchasing books, buying and renting movies, apps, and games that all stream to your phone are just some of the goodies that are going to be available. Books that are purchased will sync across devices based on your Google account.
The Market is also getting a makeover, which will hopefully make it faster and easier to discover great apps in ways the current Market can not deliver.
So far Google is hinting that this will be a very standard update and that all users running Android 2.2 or higher will get this without any special work needed.
Of course if you can't wait, you can also just download the .apk and enjoy the new Market now. A word of caution if you take this route: Rooted devices cannot rent movies from the Market; you'll pay for them but you won't be able to watch them.
[Google Mobile Blog via Droid Matters | Redmond Pie (thanks, Will!)]
Microsoft called – they want their tiles back!
Works great looks good and it was fast to download. Everything needs to be that simple.
Hah! You stole that post from right under my fingertips
Microsoft wants 5 dollars of every person that install this version of the Market LOL
Phew Bruce…You saved my a**! I was just about to try renting a movie! I feel that its a bit laggy on my Fresh Evo 4g. The tile layout shows a lot of apps; and because of that it takes a while to load all the associated icons. A lot faster over wifi and 4g but still noticeable loading times. I hope this will benefit developers who are in need of exposure for their apps.
I agree
its very laggy on my EVO running Fresh as well
Working pretty well on my stock EVO 4G 2.3. My Apps is now ordered alphabetically and you can’t long press to pull up the choice to uninstall.
Does looks a little cluttered for a Google product. No setting for update notifications so I am curious to see how update notifications are handled. Would love if we could get true push notifications without having to open the app.
Hmm, are movies rented on the market viewable thru the HDMI mirroring of newer phones like the G2x and EVO 3D? That’s the only way I’d ever see myself renting a movie on a phone… Also, will they play on phones with only a temp root? I guess it’s possible if you reboot and don’t run the root script, might make temp-root solutions a desirable alternative instead of a stopgap solution until full root is achieved on a device.
Ordering My Apps alphabetically instead of by last installed/updated seems like a step back.
It’s freaking 8.56MB. I’m stuck with the stock SD card on my EVO and had to uninstall 5 apps to keep this new market. =(
Since this blog has been sold I’ve seen more and more general Android stories re-purposed into EVO stories with something like “HTC EVO and other Android devices”. I come here to read actual stories geared specifically to the EVO.
I much preferred the low volume blog of old where every post pertained specifically to the EVO; tips, tricks, news, hacks, ROMs, etc. I already have plenty of sources about general Android news, and without it being couched in some way to make it sound like it just pertains to my phone.
Anyone else having issues installing updates to existing apps? I have one that says there’s an update to be had but will only show me the “OPEN” and “UNINSTALL” buttons. Thoughts?
Finally showed after a few hours. Might just be sluggish in syncing.
I’m having the same issue with OpenTable. Says there is an update but no update button. Chose allow auto-updating and a few moments later it updated.
THe new market is Fantastic!, this is what market should have looked like from the begining. I love it! Easy to use better look at the application screens before installing. Great job Google!!!! A++++
the site has been bought, and although she stays on top of all things EVO – as mentioned – there is now, Im sure, a need to expend the site to cover more interesting and relevant things to a little more than just hacks. price of business and all.
I dont come to this site very much any more for just that reason, but it’s still a good site.