HTC Phones - Archos App Store Fisrt Impressions On A HTC Hero

Archos 5 is a pretty good Android tablet, and Archos opens up its own Android app store for Android devices. It’s cool. But what’s different with Google Android Market? Cellpassion give us an answer.

Their Android tablet, Archos 5, might not have set the tech world on fire, but Archos clearly have bet big on Android. And while their Android app store, called AppsLib, is very clearly targeted at tablets, that does not mean there is nothing there for other Android devices. We managed to get into the store on our HTC Hero and well, while it is very early days for us to be mentioning AppsLib in the same breath as the Android Market, given the strength of the brand behind it, you never quite know what it will become.

Archos App Store On A HTC Hero

You can get AppsLib on your Android device by downloading it from http://appslib.com/developers/index.html. We went to the site on the browser of our HTC Hero and got it without any hassle, ditto for installing. The first thing that struck was the slightly richer graphical interface, than the rather vanilla-ish look of most app stores, even though we would have rather there was less green to go around. There were not too many apps to go around (barely 13), but we guess that was because the Hero is kinda small screened for the kind of apps Archos wants (800 x480 in landscape and 480 x 800 in portrait) but the categories seemed interesting, with an entire “demo” category, although we were intrigued at not seeing a “games” or “books” category. Browsing the apps under the categories can be a bit of a pain as the Hero’s screen was too small to accommodate the names of the apps (AppLibs has a hefty sidebar on the left that gobbles up a fair deal of real estate), but once you get into the individual app section, you can get details of the apps without any trouble at all.

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