Paid apps pop up in the Canadian Android Market

By on Mar 16, 2010 at 5:27 AM
Software March 16, 2010

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Google finally jumped over whatever hurdles were holding it back from offering paid apps in the Canadian Android Market, as all of a sudden, they just started showing up on some Canadian devices. Sadly, however, it seems the love is not being evenly distributed as the majority of the Bell and TELUS customers we spoke to have not yet had paid apps show up on their end. Nonetheless, we have verified with customers of both Rogers and Fido that they have been able to purchase paid apps using carrier locked and unlocked devices meaning that the long overdue roll out has finally gotten underway.

Bell and TELUS: What’s the dealio?

Thanks, LG!

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  • http://wireheadednoodlebrain.blogspot.com/ Taming

    It would be nice to know how much of this is a carrier issue, and how much it is on Google’s side of the house. It would also be nice if Rogers got some new Android phones. Just another mystery of the cold white north.

  • http://sholes.id.au/ Buzz Moody

    Optus Australia are still blocking Paid Apps.

  • TypicalVerizonDBAG

    Here is an idea. Move out of stupid Canada to the United States and sign up with Verizon to get the DROID. We offer the best experience on earth. You can do stuff the DROID you can do on no other carrier in the entire world.

    • Laughing

      Here’s another idea. Move out of America try to pretend you have any class .

      IE: Dont stand in the proverbial driveway and talk down to the guy next door who’s car isn’t as nice as yours. It is this very reason that he gets laid more than you even though his car is a piece of shit. Its because, he wont sound like a complete idiot when he opens his mouth. And that my friend, is better than a really cool service provider.

    • @TypicalVerizonDBAG

      Here’s an idea. Start to realise there are many, many great or even greater countries in the world other than the United States.

      Just to show how ignorant you are, the “DROID” is available in Canada albeit branded as the “Milestone” like it is in the rest of the world, which operates EXACTLY the same as it does in the “good ole’ USA”.

      Thankfully, for the rest of the readers we all realise you are in the very small percentile of ignorant fools that make United States look bad.

      Your fellow Canadian up north.

      • TypicalVerizonDBAG

        Here is the problem with your statement. There are no greater countries than the United States, just as their are no matter wireless companies than Verizon. It’s comical that the rest of the world’s countries try to justify their existence in such trivial ways. You are only truly free to fail or succeed (as so choose) in the United States. There are the wannabes, like the iphone is to the DROID, but in reality their is only the DROID on Verizon in the UNITED STATES. You can have your hockey, Tim Hortons and Celine Dion…I’ll have my freedom and my DROID.

      • TypicalVerizonDBAG

        matter wireless should be better wireless…. my autocorrect was probably made in Canada

      • @TypicalVerizonDBAG

        And here is the problem with YOUR statement. Go back to school and get a proper education because most of your sentences don’t make any sense.

        #2 You say you have your freedom with your DROID, but I’m saying people around already enjoy that exact same freedom! What “freedom” does Verizon give you over the other providers?

        #3 The United States has horrible healthcare coverage. There are many many other countries that provide a universal healthcare system that protects all the citizens, like Canada. I can walk into a hospital and require treatment and I’ll get it without loosing my house, car, etc. Can you say that? No!

        #4 No other countries try to justify their existence against the United States. What the other countries around the world are trying to do is stay out of illegal wars the United States starts and never finishes, or depends on the rest of the world to clean up and rebuild. Oh yes, I did say illegal wars! Get your soldiers back home!

      • TypicalVerizonDBAG

        Learn something about our healthcare before you spout off with your socialist garbage. You are NEVER denied care if you want into the ER at ANY hospital in the US right now. NEVER. Even if you can’t afford it. Quit reading Obama’s talking points and go wait in line for 6 months to get your cancerous growths removed.

      • @Dbag

        Hmmm….never heard of anyone in Canada being denied medical care because of something called a ‘Prexisting Condition’.

        Your right, you do have a great health care system….if you can pay for it.

        Don’t argue with a Canadian. We know more about you than you know about us (we don’t have a choice).

      • Canuck

        Best country in the world, best carrier in the world? Free to fail, or succeed? Those are some pretty outlandish comments, you are free to make them but how about trying to back comments up when you speak, other wise its just hearsay. If your going to pick someones argument apart do it in an intellectual way, not just a “I say its better so it must be” kindergarten way.

    • http://www.webcamwithmicrophone.org John Smith

      why they do this

  • Droid Lover

    Freedom is not free it was purchased!

  • LG

    I reported this but didn’t think it would flame a good ol US/CAN war… I think there are tons of better places for that.

    Anyways, I’m just happy to have access to paid apps in Canada…

  • T

    To my fellow Canadian who thinks he knows so much our health care system. Please explain to me what you know that I don’t because I walked in to an ER up here with a third-degree separated shoulder and told there was nothing they would do for me. “Here is some Advil, go home and see a physiotherapist in a few weeks.” I found out a year later the reason they wouldn’t is that it wasn’t worth the surgeon’s time to get out of bed and that the janitorial staff would be paid more to clean up afterwards. Sure, if I was in the US it would have cost 10k to fix it that night, but because of our broken system I live in discomfort for the rest of my life. And to top it off I saw a surgeon two years later (yes, that was the wait time – his secretary was impressed with the strings I pulled because normally it’s a four year wait list) and he told me he’d perform the surgery today for cosmetic purposes with no chance of alleviating the pain.

    Are you kidding me that our system is so good. You’re full of shit and don’t knoe ehat you’re talking about. I’m all for two-tier health care in Canada – bring it on!

    To everyone else, I have a milestone and paid apps are not appearing…

  • Fisty

    The Android Market isn’t something the carriers have any control over. Whatever is sold there is 3rd party and distributed by the market, which is the provision of Google. The reason why it took so long for for paid apps to appear on Canadian Android devices is that Google couldn’t get the proper permits to sell. This is the info I got from people in the know at Rogers.

    As to why Telus and Bell are blocking paid apps, I have no clue. Maybe it has something to do with their licensing with Google?

  • Baester

    time to play catch-up again, Bell and Telus

  • Matt P.

    My stock Telus Milestone is now showing Paid Apps, without a hard reset, albeit without the paid menus.

    I guess its progress to a certain degree.

  • anelectricmind

    I am seing Paid Apps on my Telus HTC Hero… no resets or reboot (Although, I did reboot the phone this morning)

  • Telus showing…but…

    I have the Hero with 1.5 and in order for me to see the paid applications I had to do the following:

    1. Go into the Market
    2. Hit the “Menu” button
    3. Select “Change View”
    4. Select “Priced Items Only”
    5. Start buying apps!!!

    Enjoy!

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