Motorola Opens Chinese Android App Store

Motorola has opened an Android application store in China. The SHOP4APPS (or in Chinese, Zhi-Jian-Yuan, which means Place for Apps Wisdom) store will be available on new Motorola Smartphones in China in time for the Chinese New Yearon 14 February.
Motorola has also announced a new feature on its Android handsets enabling users to customize their Android devices by selecting their own search provider. Users will be able to select their search experience from a number of providers including Baidu, and others  with whom Motorola has signed strategic agreements.
The SHOP4APPS store will support the open Android ecosystem and will be offered to other manufacturers or partners in China for licence. SHOP4APPS additionally gives developers a way to promote their applications in the market through MOTODEV, Motorola's global developer program, and through other Android development ecosystems. Developers can immediately begin to submit their Android applications for ingestion into the SHOP4APPS store in China here.
Our ability to offer SHOP4APPS and choice in search is a testament to the openness of the Android platform, says Christy Wyatt, Corporate Vice President of Software and Services at Motorola Mobile Devices. SHOP4APPS will provide developers the opportunity to market and promote their applications on Android handsets within the Chinese market. In addition to our close collaboration with the Android community, we are working closely with our carrier partners in China, and with ecosystem partners like Baidu to provide consumers with a full suite of services (including) search, email and maps.