General Mobile Storeoid App Store

• Rob Jackson
• 15 years ago

Marketing folks pushing Android products love to tack on “Droid” or “Oid” to the end of their descriptors, giving a familiar word an Android twist. Unfortunately for General Mobile, the name of their new Android application store sounds like it has an unfair advantage “Jose Canseco” style: Storeoid. I’m not sure if General Mobile has been taking illegal Robot Growth Hormones or not but they’ve already got screen shots of their latest endeavor:

Another application store – just what we need, right? The company also sent word of a new General Mobile Android Phone that is on the way and we’ve got some basic specs:

• Powerful CPU (Marvell PXA935 (Tavor P65), HSDPA/WCDMA/EDGE/GPRS/GSM)
• Android OS 2.0 Eclair
• 5.0 MP AF camera
• 3.2” HVGA (320*480) full capacitive multi-touch screen and rich multimedia format supported
• new 3D animated UIs
• built in GM android market application
• Internet access via EDGE/HSDPA (3.6Mbps DL)
• BT 2.0, WIFI 802.11 b/g
• Huge memory support (256MB NAND+118MB DDR, Micro SD up to 16GB)
• Tracking ball
• GPS and E-Compass
• FM Radio
• 1500mAh Battery

I’m currently trying to get whatever other information I can… so stay tuned!