Follow Us:
6

Rogers partners with GetJar to offer customers 60,000 free mobile apps

By on March 25, 2010 at 10:58am in Asides, Mobile News, Rogers Wireless News, Various News

During the 2009 Canadian Telecom Summit Rogers President and CEO Nadir Mohamed talked about them having their own app store eventually. He stated that “carriers that actually embrace and lead the storefront side and have essentially an application center that they own and compete with along with the RIM’s, the Apple’s, Android Google platform and so on… Again, it’s not the world today that will be defined in 12 months, but if you look out in the next 3-years this space will be huge in terms of seeing how each one of us plays in the value chain in front of the customer.”

Minor (but also major) progress has been made as Rogers has partnered up with GetJar to offer their customers over 60,000 free mobile apps. GetJar is the world’s second largest app store, just behind Apple’s App Store and have apps in different categories such as games, social networking, sports, entertainment and productivity. Rogers joins Sprint, Sony Ericsson, 3UK and Virgin Mobile France who offer a similar app store to their clients.

Data plans are required to download apps and if you want access them all you have to do is text APPS to 555 and you’ll be sent a link to the Rogers Application page, then select “Free Apps from GetJar”

More here at GetJar
Via: Yahoo!

Related posts:

  1. Rogers gives customers ability to download DRM-free music
  2. 5% of free iPhone apps ony last 1 month?
  3. Rogers & Fido customers can search Workopolis for free
  4. Pie chart of Apple’s 65,000 available Apps

Discussion

6 comments for “Rogers partners with GetJar to offer customers 60,000 free mobile apps”

  1. I wonder if they have apps for the iphone only…

    Like or Dislike: Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0

    Posted by pascal | March 25, 2010, 11:11 am
    Reply to this comment

  2. so it seems… that’s great then

    Like or Dislike: Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0

    Posted by pascal | March 25, 2010, 11:14 am
    Reply to this comment

  3. pretty much all of getjar’s apps are garbage.

    Like or Dislike: Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0

    Posted by benjamin spaetzel | March 25, 2010, 11:24 am
    Reply to this comment

  4. The last thing we need are the carriers running app stores. They should be big, fat, dumb pipes and nothing more.

    Like or Dislike: Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0

    Posted by Jim R | March 25, 2010, 12:54 pm
    Reply to this comment

  5. You can download all the apps on getjar to your computer then bluetooth them over to your phone to avoid the data charges.

    The problem is 99% of getjar’s apps are crap and the half of the 1% that aren’t crap need to be properly formatted for your phone to work.

    Like or Dislike: Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0

    Posted by Sid | March 25, 2010, 1:48 pm
    Reply to this comment

  6. GetJar is biggest and oldest Java app download site, apps there are not ‘garbage’, there are a lot of them… so sifting from less desireable to more desireable apps can be time consuming. The kick in the teeth is that most phones that support Java don’t allow access to all the interesting functionality on devices unless the app is signed by a special certificate (which the vast majority of apps are not), so most of them will be crippled and useless.

    Like or Dislike: Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0

    Posted by max | March 26, 2010, 10:38 am
    Reply to this comment

Post a comment