One of the interesting things said at this morning’s HTC Desire event is the fact that the device will come pre-loaded with Telstra’s apps, like Foxtel and WhereIs, although you can delete them if you don’t want them. But if you own an Android phone like the HTC Hero or an imported Nexus One and actually want to use those apps, don’t go looking to the Marketplace. At least not yet.
The apps we saw on the handsets today aren’t quite the finished version, but they’re expected to be all done by the April 27 launch date. But initially, they won’t be available on the Android Marketplace – although Telstra are looking at the distribution method and will probably make them available in the future.
Although realistically they’ll probably only work on Telstra SIM cards, just like the company’s iPhone apps…
srw
Thursday, March 25, 2010 at 4:40 PMI bet they are scared of the Android Market comments, lots of 1 star “sucks”, I get some of those for my apps and I’m not a mega-hated corporation :)
Thepengwin
Thursday, March 25, 2010 at 5:10 PMThats okay, I’m getting used to not seeing all the apps I can possibly get in the market.
Isn’t that right Optus? :)
Optus
Thursday, March 25, 2010 at 8:49 PM‘yes’
Rahul Khanna
Thursday, March 25, 2010 at 11:04 PMCan you see those apps if you’re connected via WiFi?
John
Thursday, March 25, 2010 at 6:20 PMSo does that mean that you can’t use any of the international HTC apps if you import an HTC desire and use your own sim card?that sim card belonging to a different carrier than telstra?
Edward Kindred
Friday, March 26, 2010 at 12:42 AMI have a HTC G1 with a Vodafone sim and I have been able to download a Yellow Pages application from the android market