Comments on: Android Market Update: New Countries Getting Android Phones

By: Karim Ayman

Karim Ayman — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:48:04 +0000

lol…I think i will die before they support my country!

EGYPT!! though we have more than 20,000,000 of mobile users! which means a potential market to sell more phones that uses android! but! what shall we say! its a game and it happens only for the countries that comes to the leaders favors…Eric! DUH!!!

yeah one world, one race!!! a lot of since fiction in real life these days!

By: Wallace

Wallace — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 13:49:47 +0000

I really don’t understand why Google only approved Japan – 1 Asia country out of 13 countries to sell priced application. Hong Kong as 1 of the 3 places to initially lauch Nexus One, can only find free application but not priced application in the Market Place. Google should have speed up to put more place into the approved country list in order to pace with other smart phone. Android user is not only located in those 13 countries, but worldwide with rapid growth.

By: SysGhost

SysGhost — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:24:23 +0000

Over a year now since these “big news” and nothing have happened.
Still waiting.

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 30 May 2010 01:42:11 +0000

FYI, Taiwan and Hong Kong have had android phones since last year. HTC is a Taiwanese company so they hit very quickly in Asia Pacific.

Motorola Milestone was available from late 2009.

By: Vili101

Vili101 — Fri, 07 May 2010 03:48:22 +0000

I bought an Android phone on the strength of Google’s reputation only to discover that neither is the Android Market accessible here nor is there any language support for Arabic/Farsi.
I thought the United States was meant to be allowing Iranians to have access to communications technology (Google Talk etc) as part of it’s policy towards the country. Has Android not yet got the message? You guys are losing out to your competitors here – and it’s a big market. Hurry up Android and give us access to Apps and full Farsi language support.

By: thaied

thaied — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 23:03:53 +0000

let me know when you have Thai language !

By: Pearlie

Pearlie — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:06:07 +0000

when can u provide android market in the philippines because i have mytouch 3g T-mobile but i cannot use it because of android. Please send an email to pearlie_jamin@yahoo.com for your answer.
thank you.
Hope to hear for your soon.

By: Mikos

Mikos — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:51:42 +0000

So that´s why only ‘free’ aps are showing in ‘my’ Market place, and I cannot buy…What a shame. And I don’t get it. At web shops I can buy from almost anywhere in the world, but when it somes to Android I cannot?

Sigh..

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 29 May 2009 07:46:45 +0000

11. LOL

As for paid apps in the market, it suddenly dissapeared again (strange?!). Not that it contained anything at all, but still ;-)

By: Rob Jackson

Rob Jackson — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:19:25 +0000

@hey you – actually it is a country. Google just purchased it and is relocating their headquarters there and renaming it “Hoongle Koongle”

By: hey you

hey you — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:46:39 +0000

Hong Kong is not a “country”
wiki:
“Hong Kong (Chinese: 香港), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China,[6] is a largely self-governing [7] territory of the People’s Republic of China (PRC)”

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:27:09 +0000

This evening, the market app suddenly showed a new item in the menu that allows people in Sweden (like myself) and probably other countries listed above to finally start purchasing paid apps. Unfortunately, the lists are currently empty (which i suspect will change soon ;-))

//D

By: Jompa

Jompa — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:37:41 +0000

Yay, Norway is on the list!

By: Aftoc

Aftoc — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:32:02 +0000

Sweden already has HTC Magic available!

By: Paranoid Android

Paranoid Android — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:56:06 +0000

You’ll be able to access all free apps that were published for “all current and future countries”. I would guess that’s well over 90% of all free apps on the Android Market.

Paid apps probably won’t be available since you’d need a Checkout account with a credit card issued in one of the supported countries.