CES 2012: Qualcomm Snapdragon GameCommand to Launch on Android Market.

WorldWide Tech & Science. Francisco De Jesús.

Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) today announced that Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. (QuIC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, is expected to launch the Snapdragon GameCommand™ application to the Android Market on January 10, 2012, the opening day of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). At its heart, Snapdragon GameCommand will give mobile users a way to quickly discover, organize and access the latest Snapdragon optimized, featured and exclusive games. It will also provide feeds from top gaming news sites to help consumers stay up to date with the latest gaming news.

Snapdragon GameCommand will enable users to easily access and play many of the over 100 Snapdragon™ GamePack featured games on a wide range of mobile phones and tablets. The Snapdragon GamePack includes several titles exclusively available on Snapdragon devices running on Android for a limited time, including "Fight Game Heroes" from Khaeon Gamestudio. "Fight Game Heroes" features head-to-head battles with real MMA fighters, including multiple combat champion and UFC fighter Alistair "The Reem" Overeem. Visitors to CES will have the chance to meet the 6'-5", 265-pound Overeem in-person and watch as he takes on Qualcomm executives in live rounds of "Fight Game Heroes" at the Qualcomm Booth in the LVCC South Hall, Upper Level, Booth #30313. 

Other exclusive games that are accessible to consumers with Snapdragon GameCommand include titles such as "Bunny Maze 3D" from Eyelead Software and "Desert Winds™" from Southend Interactive. In "Bunny Maze 3D", players help the adventurous Bunny get back his stolen carrots, in a cheerful journey through a magical world. In the "Desert Winds" mini-game players take on the persona of princess Amira as she battles gruesome creatures of the desert to save her people.

"With mobile gaming proliferating at a blistering pace, apps like Snapdragon GameCommand make it easy for consumers to discover and access the most advanced Snapdragon optimized games," says Dave Durnil, director of advanced gaming at Qualcomm. "With exclusive and highly-anticipated games like 'Fight Game Heroes' and 'The Reem' Snapdragon mobile gaming is really starting to heat up."

Snapdragon GameCommand is expected to be available in North America at launch and will be available in other markets at a later date. 

About Qualcomm 

Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) is the world leader in 3G and next-generation mobile technologies. For more than 25 years, Qualcomm ideas and inventions have driven the evolution of digital communications, linking people everywhere more closely to information, entertainment and each other. For more information, visit Qualcomm's website, OnQ blog, Twitter and Facebook pages.

About QuIC

Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, focused on enabling and optimizing open source software for use with Qualcomm technology. The company is focused on technical innovations to mobile open source software that leverage the unique capabilities of today's mobile devices, with a particular eye to optimizing platforms and the applications that run on them via tight hardware integration. 

QUALCOMM and SNAPDRAGON are trademarks of Qualcomm Incorporated, registered in the United States and may be registered in other countries. SNAPDRAGON, GAMECOMMAND and DESERT WINDS are trademarks of Qualcomm Incorporated. Other brand names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

Qualcomm Contacts:

Tina Asmar, Corporate Communications

Phone: 1-858-845-5959

Email: corpcomm@qualcomm.com 

Warren Kneeshaw, Investor Relations

Phone: 1-858-658-4813

Email: ir@qualcomm.com

SOURCE Qualcomm Incorporated

2012: Google’s Android Market passed the 400,000 app mark.

WorldWide Tech & Science. Francisco De Jesús.

Distimo said that Google’s Android Market passed the 400,000 app mark at the start of the year, having reached 200,000 in April 2011 and 300,000 in August 2011.

 Free content dominates the store, with more than two-thirds of the available apps falling into this category. The analytics firm noted that this has grown steadily from 60 percent in April 2011, driven by the increased popularity of the freemium business model.

 The company noted that while Apple took 22 months to reach 200,000 apps and Android Market took 31 months, momentum then shifted in favour of the Google store – it took four months to pass 300,000 and four more to pass 400,000, compared with eight and seven for the iPhone store.

 This echoes earlier reports of Google’s Android Market download performance. Again, while Apple had a head-start in the market, momentum shifted in favour of Android as the smartphone user base grew.

 It was also noted that Android Market now has “almost more than 100,000 publishers active in its application store.” Developers publish 4.1 apps on average, down from nearly five twelve months ago.

 Distimo noted that the recent milestone relates only to current applications in the store, and not those previously removed by Google or developers for various reasons.