Game over Handango

• The Android Marketplace for free apps will go live Monday.
• Iphone applications is being installed via Installer or via Appstore for more than one year.
• We have got Nokia's OVI.
• RIM is planning to open its app store in March 2009.
• Samsung says their's is coming pretty soon.

Can we say "game over Handango and Motricity duopoly"?

The least we can expect is people to start picking their handsets on the basis of what applications they run, and is prepared to spend money to make sure the greatest applications work on their devices.
By the way it is remarkable that third party developers will start making money out of this :)

RATING BLACKBERRY - by me

Price: B+ (it is subsidized by GSM operators in Turkey)
Design: D (there are very few worse designs than blackberries
e-mail: A (there is not any better device than blackberry in that department)
internet: C (most of the nokia's provide better internet - I do not even mention iphone and other new multitouch devices)
wireless: B (not all of them has wireless feature and the ones that have rank below iphone on that department)
GPS: B (every model has a nonGPS and GPS submodel, so you can use the GPS submodel as a navigation device by installing the necessary 3rd party softwares.)
Third party software integration: C (Better than symbian, worse than apple and windows - but I have heard that they will put pressure in that department too)