Friday, May 20, 2011

Amazon Appstore for Android - Free Stuff!

I was skeptical when Amazon added their own appstore for Android.  I love my Android phone.  It is by far the best phone I have ever had.  The only real challenge is that you can't purchase software and have it billed to your phone account.  But along comes Amazon's appstore and now you have an easy way to make purchases using your Amazon account.  But by far the best feature is the "a paid app for free everyday". 

You can get some great stuff for free.  This makes me check everyday to see what's being given away.  Today was TweetCaster Pro.  I can only hope that QuickOffice is down the pipe.  I love this feature.  Not only do you get some great stuff, but apps you may not have looked at are brought to your attention. 

Now there are issues with this store.  The apps installed are not "seen" by the Android Market.  And if you uninstall the Amazon appstore your apps go with it.  But that's not really a big deal because once you install this you're not going to want to get rid of it.  And of course, your carrier may not allow you to install an additional app like this since it's not in the Android Market (perhaps a root -- but I'm not advocating that.  Read all the stuff on killing your warranty when you do root).  You'll have to download it direct from Amazon.

But in the end, I think this app is worth all that it brings to your phone.  Get it and start getting some great apps for free.

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