Android Market Upgraded, Buy eBooks and Rent Movies 157
hypnosec writes "Search engine giant Google has quietly dished out an update for its Android Market mobile application store. The update, which bumps the Android Market version to 3.0.27, brings a new user interface and new content for Android powered Smartphones and Tablet devices. Users will now be able to purchase and download eBooks and rent movies."
Re:Android pod touch (Score:5, Insightful)
Are you sure you want to use pirated software or software from a non-official source for your banking purposes?
That sounds unwise.
Re:Worth it yet? (Score:4, Insightful)
I'm likely one of the few people here without a smartphone - is it worth it yet?
Depends what you want. I find it convenient to read and respond to new email on my phone, browse the Web from anywhere, pay my bills while sitting at the park, check Google Maps when I'm lost, calculate things (I have a full HP 48 emulator on mine), take the occasional photo of something wacky I see while out and about (and post it directly to Facebook), listen to music, and play the occasional game.
Then again, as much as people rave about how important "apps" are, I have apps on my phone that sounded cool at the time but I'm certain I'll never actually use. Maybe you'd use your phone even less. What you get for the $20 extra per month is that anytime you're possessed of the desire to do any of these things, you can just take out your phone and do it, then put it away again. If the added cost of one dinner per month isn't worth it to you, then don't buy a smartphone. Nobody's forcing you.
Re:Android pod touch (Score:3, Insightful)
Leave the purchasing of apps to the iOS chumps who have to jailbreak to even get close to what Android does out of the box.
Ok, so ios users are chumps beacuse they jailbreak to do cool stuff, but ( using your example ) a nook color user is cool beacuse he had to root his device to do cool stuff..
ya, makes a lot of sense to me. Talk about hypocrisy.