In a clever move, Vodafone will be opening up its own Android App store through a tie up with Arvato Mobile. Little is known at the moment but its likely to open its doors in early June 2010 and come preinstalled on devices from then on. Vodafone have had a big push on Google OS driven handsets in what has been tagged Android April will the HTC Desire, HTC Legend and the Sony Ericsson X10 all launched this month with the Nexus One also heading to Europe on the Big Red network.

Whilst the network continues to push its 360 services, jumping on the Android App bandwagon alongside is a good move but Im sure Google arent overly happy with revenue it gains from the 30% of apps sold heading to someone else as Apps get produced on Vodafones shop and not the Android Market.

There will no doubt be questions from developers on whether one app can be sold in both shops and much of that will be decided by T&C’s and the techical set up of Vodafones Store.  We will have to wait and see.

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