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Android Market now has 20,000 apps available

Stuart Dredge
Android Market now has 20,000 apps available

According to AndroLib, anyway.

Google's Android Market has doubled its catalogue in the last five months, taking it to more than 20,000 available apps.

That's according to figures from third-party site AndroLib, mind - Google hasn't officially confirmed the milestone yet.

According to the site, 62.2% of those apps are free, while only 37.8% are paid. Android Market started off only offering free apps, but this does mean that it now has more than 7,500 paid titles.

November saw a big spike in the number of apps and games released on the store: 3,544 according to AndroLib. December is on track to beat that though: in the first half of the month, nearly 2,000 apps have been released.

Momentum is undoubtedly building behind Google's smartphone OS, even if its catalogue is still just a fifth of the iPhone's.

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The release of new handsets like Motorola's Droid - not to mention the buzz around the new Nexus One - is fuelling the growth of the Android Market catalogue.

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