T-Mobile G1 Updates Blog

Google’s G1 Phone which is based on the open source Linux platform, Android, comes pre-loaded with the Amazon MP3 Android application, thereby offering you a user friendly mp3 purchasing and downloading experience. The Amazon MP3 Android has been especially designed for G1 and allows you to search, download, purchase and play the song of your choice from over 6 million DRM free mp3 songs of brand name music labels as well as from thousands of individual labels. There are no subscription charges, once you download the song, its belongs to you for life!

Bill Carr, the Vice President of Amazon was thus expectedly excited when he made the announcement that Google had joined forces with Amazon to offer the search, purchase and download – mp3 service for the G1 Android phone.

The mp3s sold through the Amazon’s MP3 Android application are quite reasonably priced; the the top 100 songs are available for just 89 cents, while the top 100 best selling albums are priced at $8.99 or less. Similarly, most albums on the G1 Amazon store are priced between $5.99 to $9.99.

While the iTunes Store faces no major competition from Amazon MP3 Android as of now, it is assumed that in the coming weeks the Amazon MP3 Android will capture a large amount of iTunes customers as the G1 phone gains popularity!

Since G1 has been launched on the 22^nd October, thousands of G1 owners have started downloading add-on applications. A quick warning to G1 customers, since G1 phone developers are not yet able to register or upload their applications to the official Google G1 site there is no guaranteed that the G1 scattered all over various internet websites are safe. Thus please don’t download applications from any other website other than the official G1 phone website – Android.com, as the various applications distributed by other websites have not gone through Google’s stringent security checks and maybe harmful to your G1 phone!

NOTE: Please wait until the 27^th of October when Google finally allows developers to upload their application to Android.com.

Hence, I’ve stuck to reviewing the Amazon MP3 Android Application for now, which is on its way to being one of the most popular G1 Android Phone applications.