Sony Ericsson's Play-Now Arena becomes its App Store

Written on 6/05/2009 08:00:00 AM by poison_ivy

More and more Mobile phone manufacturers are following iPhone's footsteps in setting up their own App store. Now there's not only Apple, Nokia, Windows Mobile, and Blackberry which have App stores, Sony Ericsson will soon follow suit.

The Japanese-Swedish Mobile phone company announced that soon, they will be offering applications in their Play-now website which initially only offers ringtones, games, wallpapers and themes. In anticipation of this, Sony Ericsson has opened up their Mobile Java platform for developers and are encouraging them to start submittting applications on July 1.

Applications is initially open for Java and Symbian platforms (too bad for Xperia X1 users) but the company will expand later in the year to cover additional platforms (Most likely Windows Mobile and Android).