Not Another Mobile Phone Blog

After OEMs are driving users mad by launching complex smart phones day in and day out, now it's the time of App stores. Couple of years back, there were one or two notable app stores, one of them being the app store for Symbian. Today, if you see, you have Symbian's Ovi, Apple App Store, Google's Android Market, RIM's Blackberry App store and there is GetJar, which is another independent app store for different mobile platforms. Almost a week back, Amazon also announced that they are opening up their independent App store for Android and now to add to this app store madness, Opera has launched it's own app store but it's not for only one kind of mobile platform. The Opera Mobile App Store, which is launched in partnership with Appia, will focus on free and paid apps for Android, Blackberry, palm, Windows Mobile and Symbian and yeah, there are Java apps too. One upper hand, which Opera has being a late starter in the mobile apps race is that, it's app store in accessible to almost 100 million mobile users out there who use Opera as a browser on their mobile phones/smart phones. Pretty cool huh!! And on the top of that, every user will have a different interface of the store based on his/her mobile operating system. This saves time for the user where he does not have to browse through hundreds of apps to figure out, which apps will work on his/her phone. The Opera Publisher Portal will be for developers from where they can submit their apps to this store. Four years back only Apple had the vision for mobile app stores, yeah, yeah, I know there was GetJar but still!! The way Apple has changed the face of app stores and touch screen phones on this earth, it's unbelievable. If any of you readers ( I know, I have a very few but still) have used Opera's Mobile App store, let me know in comments. I think it should be pretty cool!!