{"id":34250,"date":"2011-09-19T21:46:08","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T19:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=34250"},"modified":"2011-09-20T10:21:58","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T08:21:58","slug":"amazon-appstore-for-android-in-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/34250-amazon-appstore-for-android-in-sa.html","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Appstore for Android in SA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary:<\/span> Amazon\u2019s Appstore for Android devices is becoming available outside the United States, and has been confirmed to be working in South Africa.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Amazon<\/a> Appstore for Android<\/a>, previously only available in the United States, has started making its apps available to international users according to user reports from around the world.<\/p>\n

According to a post by Android Police<\/a> citing The Digital Reader<\/a>, Amazon seems to have made the apps in its store available to the rest of the world on the sly.<\/p>\n

On top of that, Android Police reported that Amazon provided the following comment when asked about the apparent launch: \u201cThanks for reaching out. We have not announced any plans for international expansion.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Amazon Appstore for Android page<\/a> still says that the Appstore is available only to its customers in the US.<\/p>\n

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Amazon Appstore for Android<\/p><\/div>\n

However, we were able to download the application for the Amazon Appstore<\/a> and download and run both the free app for the day, as well as purchase a paid-for app from South Africa.<\/p>\n

We could also verify that devices running the Froyo (2.2), Gingerbread (2.3), and Honeycomb (3.2) versions of Android were able to download and install apps from the Amazon Appstore in SA.<\/p>\n

Though Amazon may be playing coy on this, it seems as though non-US customers may finally have cracked the nod.<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong>: It seems as though Amazon turned its region locking back on some time during the night. Whether this was a preview of coming attractions or a slip-up on the online retailer’s part remains to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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