OpnMarket – alternate freeware Windows Mobile Marketplace now available

January 18, 2010 | By Surur

Windows Mobile users dissatisfied with Microsoft’s Marketplace for Windows Mobile now have an alternate implementation available which should have vastly more applications in most areas than Marketplace has currently, and with all the applications free.

Freewarepocketpc.net has embraced the on-device application store model by joining forces with an effort developed already by the community to access their catalogue of freeware apps from the device itself.

The result is a slick application with a great user interface that already sports 500 applications, and is set to soon have a lot more.

Read more about the service and download the client here, or using our Microsoft Tag (gettag.mobi).

About Surur

Site Admin and Windows Phone enthusiast, he has been using Windows Mobile devices since before they were called PocketPC’s. He is currently sporting a HTC 7 Trophy.

Tagged freeware, marketplace, software, video

Chris

Its good, but has no menu, and therefore no exit button. The X on most phones will close it, but not on all. On the HD2 it minimises it only, and it uses quite a lot of RAM and seemed to make the phone laggy while minimised.

http://intensedebate.com/people/Strangerx Strangerx

You can apply the HTC Taskmanager to the HD2 and this will enable some settings that define how the X should act. I've set it to minimize on normal tap and to close it on longer press.

Papajohn

An let MS divide the world in "markets"…

http://intensedebate.com/people/Lennard Lennard

what? john stop it and go eat your pizza. don't you know the world has already been devided into markets?

NofA

Hmm, from an initial impression, it seems pretty good so far. The interface is well made and looks as good as the Windows Marketplace. I might change my opinion later, but right now, it seems good. OpnMarket pretty much came out of the left field for me (I literally did not know about it until yesterday), but I'm kind of happy I didn't have to wait for such a great idea.
http://intensedebate.com/people/Lennard Lennard

it is a nice app but I'm worried about the fragmentation that this is aiding. a lot of people might not think much of this, but it goes a long way. I dont' tihnk it's right for a user to have to wade through 4 different marketplaces. I had hoped winmo devs would have thrown their collective weight behind the Microsoft's Marketplace and propell it forward.
andy matters

the interface is very nice on my omnia.
as long as people can find all the ap shops, like samsungs, microsofts, orange etc…

but thats the great thing about windows phones, choice!! and to think its an ms based product thats "open" to users rather than closed. if only the eu etc saw that instead of ms is evil all the time!
http://intensedebate.com/people/seika seika

Not available for non-touch devices.