Archos Android DVR Station

Thanks to my company Diotasoft which maintains privileged relations with Archos (Diotasoft has developped the Archos appslib), I was sent a DVR station. Here are my first impressions and some photos.

In fact everything can be summed up in one word: Fabulous!

Android on a TV (mine is a HD screen 46 ") is a gateway to a new world... If my Internet provider (free, I adore you!) launches an Android application to read TV flows, I will format my TV :-)..

For developers, this is a new niche for applications. For google, I wondered if it will integrate the TV in the house in a totally unexpected way ...

Here are the photos ...

SCOOP!!! The first photo of Archos a5s Android with appslib

My job as an Android developer at Diotasoft is really exciting!  This morning I had the opportunity to see appslib running on the new  Archos tablet. I took a photo and here it is  ...

Sorry for the picture quality, it has been taken with an HTC G1 ;-) 

A turning on the android market

Note these days the arrival of two flagship applications in pay version. We'll finally be able to see how users will behave toward "must have" applications they need to pay for. The 2 applications below have both 50 000 and 250 000 downloads and a rate of 9 / 10.

Twidroid Pro 3.99€ (by Zimmermann & Marban)

With this pricing the developers may have been too greedy, and the figure of at least 100 sales do not surprise me. Finally I think the light version of twidroid should have less functionality to motivate people to buy the pay, but how users would react if (say) the developers removed the @ and D?

Benefit for developers: 280 €

Wikitude World Browser Prenium 0.99€ (by Mobilizy)

Currently sold at least 1,000 copies. I do not think the gains allows Mobilizy to pay back the investment made on the free version.

Earnings for Mobilizy: 700 €

So at the moment, we cannot say that users are ready to pay for such applications. I really doubt the figure announced by Adsmob of about the 5M$ estimation of the Android Market.


I will try to regularly monitor the sales of these two applications.

Photos of the Archos Tablet published in USA

The blog androidcommunity
just published a photo of the tablet archos due to a leak from the FCC (Federal Communications Commission).


This is the first time I saw this product in white ;-). Rendez-vous September 15th to learn more.

Last week, I was glad to learn that a new client for spotify is available on the Android market. Today, Game Is Over!!. Spotify asked the developper to withdraw the application saying it violates the agreements between spotify and the majors.

The discussion below was on twitter:

Developper:
Just talked to @gustavs of Spotify and we agreed on me removing #Droidify because it violates Spotify's arrangements with the music labels.5:44 PM Aug 19th from web

Spotify agent:
@bobcat_zed Thanks Oscar! This is much appreciated by us at Spotify and we promise to work even harder to get an official client out :-)6:03 PM Aug 19th from Tweetie

It is unfair. But that gives an idea about the futur official Android client: All albums will not be available as it seems mobile and desktop agreements are basically different.

Spotify Client Video for Android

For further details see the blog (in frensh) services mobiles

Presentation of M! the new Android tablet

Here is a video of mine, presenting the new SFR tablet M!.
This video may be seen on Services mobiles web site.