ShopSavvy ~ one week later
October 30, 2008
It has been a wild ride for the Big in Japan team and our ShopSavvy application for T-Mobile. Currently ShopSavvy is the second most popular application in Google’s Android Market (evidently the Weather Channel Application is more popular). The coverage of the application has been VERY positive ranging from stories in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, BusinessWeek to the Dallas Morning News. We’ve even been on television a few times.
Today ShopSavvy and the G1 invades the United Kingdom. With little more than a week to build our UK-localized version; Rylan and Jason uploaded the new binary to the Android Market around 2PM CST yesterday and UK users should ONLY see results from UK-based online and local retailers (with prices in pounds). The British people LOVE their cell phones and we hope that they will adopt the G1 in droves. There are more than 60,000,000 people living in the UK, but there are more than 61,000,000 cell phones in use in the UK (compared to only 219,000,000 cell phones in the US, population 301,000,000).
Our partnership with T-Mobile has been simply amazing. I cannot stress how indebted we are to the T-Mobile team for their support throughout the launch of the G1. ShopSavvy was highlighted at their launch event in Manhattan last month, it has been incorporated in their television commercials and in each T-Mobile store in the United States. We are also working closely with T-Mobile to launch throughout the world next year. Here is the rollout list (subscriber numbers from Wikipedia):
- United States (launched 10/22/08) - 30.8 million subscribers
- United Kingdom (launched 10/30/08) - 17.1 million subscribers
- Germany (Q1 2009 launch) - 37.1 million subscribers
- Austria (Q1 2009 launch) - 2.2 million subscribers
- Croatia (Q1 2009 launch) - 2.5 million subscribers
- Czech Republic (Q1 2009 launch) - 5.3 million subscribers
- Hungary (Q1 2009 launch) - 4.9 million subscribers
- Macedonia (Q1 2009 launch) -1.1 million subscribers
- Montenegro (Q1 2009 launch) - 271,000 subscribers
- Netherlands (Q1 2009 launch) - 5.2 million subscribers
- Slovakia (Q1 2009 launch) - 2.3 million subscribers
