New Android Market

[JTaylor69]

Recently, we?ve been hard at work improving Android Market to give you new ways to find great applications and games, purchase books, and rent movies. Today, we?re releasing a new version of Android Market which makes all of these available on phones (Android 2.2 and higher).

http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2011/07/new-android-market-for-phones-with.html

[Adrian0E]

Can't wait for the Update. It does look great.

Too bad I'm outside US so I won't have acces to movies and books.

[Mystic Mungis]

Someone just posted about this on G+, I like that it now supports movies and books but not too sure if I like the design

Just realised I won't be able to use movies or books :(

[JTaylor69]

Will soon support other countries outside U.S :)

Will add to OP.

Edit:

I think it was removed? I can't seem to find what I had seen 5 minutes ago about outside US support.

[The Teej]

So it's a redesign which takes advantage of movies and books even though I won't be able to use movies and books.

Riiiiiiight.

Anyone think it looks a bit WP7-ish? I guess it's really more of a redesign that reflects the other redesigns in other areas of Google.

[Roger H. Veteran]

Oooooh pretty! :)

[rajputwarrior]

i really don't see the appeal of renting/watching a movie on a tiny screen like that. maybe on an android tablet...

[ManMountain]

Looking forward to this update :)

[Singh400]

Anyone think it looks a bit WP7-ish? I guess it's really more of a redesign that reflects the other redesigns in other areas of Google.

Yes. The whole tiles thing going on.

[Roger H. Veteran]

i really don't see the appeal of renting/watching a movie on a tiny screen like that. maybe on an android tablet...

I figured it's basically just to say you can kinda deal. But yeah definitely would rather a tablet or some type of TV appliance for this :) Netflix is great and all but it would be great to just have one source for everything!

[crazzyyfool]

So when does it go live?

[JTaylor69]

Oh and I'm off to Google HQ. It's always 3 o clock, and the signal and battery never decrease ;)

[Tech Star]

Looks good, but its basically tiles from WP7. Not that I am saying it doesn't work.

[ViZioN]

Looks pretty cool. Looking forward to the update.

[Lexcyn]

So ... anyone have this yet? :)

[Hollow.Droid]

I'd image it'll probably be in this thread pretty soon, xda always seems to get them up quick.

[firey]

I installed it yesterday, it's pretty slick. I like the organization of it, though it is very very WP7 / Blocky

[Roger H. Veteran]

Installed it but seems there's some bugs in there still so i'll try pushing it and overwrite the older one. The bug i got was updating facebook to 1.6.1 yesterday and it just wouldn't show the option to update (even though i got the message) then when it finally did it downloaded and installed and "updated" but when i went to the app and checked the about page it still showed 1.6.0 (as well as in Applications). So for whatever reason, it just wasn't working so right there.

(yes i restarted a few times :D).

Anyways, i'll try again and see if it makes a diff.

[firey]

Installed it but seems there's some bugs in there still so i'll try pushing it and overwrite the older one. The bug i got was updating facebook to 1.6.1 yesterday and it just wouldn't show the option to update (even though i got the message) then when it finally did it downloaded and installed and "updated" but when i went to the app and checked the about page it still showed 1.6.0 (as well as in Applications). So for whatever reason, it just wasn't working so right there.

(yes i restarted a few times :D).

Anyways, i'll try again and see if it makes a diff.

I can't even connect to the market. Keeps saying no connection.. yet my browser and all that works fine.

[+KibosJ Subscriber²]

I like it :D

It might look a bit WP7 but I think it looks good :)

Working great here in the UK too :)

[beanboy89]

Anyone know when this will be rolling out? Still the old Market on my stock Gingerbread Nexus One.

[Bhav]

Anyone know when this will be rolling out? Still the old Market on my stock Gingerbread Nexus One.

In the next few weeks.