Top 15 Alternative Android App Stores For Your Cricket ZTE Score

Posted by Dana Rock on Feb 16, 2012 in App Lists, Free Paid Apps, News, Reviews, ZTE Score, ZTE Score Apps, ZTE Score Games | 0 comments

If you own an Android, any Android, you almost certaintly know about the Android Market and the Amazon Appstore. Both of these are now market standards.

What you may not know is that there are A LOT of other alternative appstores lurking around the internet that may be worth checking out — who knows what the future may hold for them and whether they will soon hit the street in a viral frenzy as a contender. We’ve seen this recently with GetJar and their new free premium apps program in GetJar Gold.

So, let’s get right in to it and look at the top 15 Android Market alternatives. In order to qualify as an appstore, the store must allow you to buy directly from them and not just be a service for app discovery like AppBrain, Chomp, or AppAware. App Discovery is a whole other post I will publish someday.

1. Amazon Appstore

Amazon Appstore

If you do not already have the Amazon Appstore downloaded and installed on your Android, you are crazy (or just did not know about it ). I have collected hundreds of dollars in paid apps with their “Get a great paid app for free every day” program.

The great thing is that you do not even have to install the apps to “collect” them. All you need to do is have or set up an Amazon account and just push the “get it” button once a day. Chu — ching! Free money!

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GetJar Gold Offers Paid App Freestyle Motocross Free to ZTE Score Owners

Posted by Dana Rock on Nov 14, 2011 in Free Paid Apps, News, Reviews, Special Deals, ZTE Score, ZTE Score Games | 0 comments

 

FMX IV – Freestyle Motocross

From GetJar:

High octane, motocross action! This app is easy to pick up, but incredibly difficult to put down.

Take your place amongst the kings of motocross by racing in worldwide events, doing flips, and pulling off super sick tricks!

This app is the app that just keeps on giving. Race in Mexico, Egypt, Moscow, Rome and a secret + special Tour for the ultimate challenge.

• Check out the 4 different bikes you can unlock, each with a different driving behavior.
• Check out never seen before tricks and unlock all the achievements!
• Keep track of over 20 different stats like biggest combo, most flips per jump, most painful crash and more! Download today to get in on the excitement!

From Developer:

Pure Freestyle Motocross action in 50 breathtaking events all over the world!

Experience the excitement of Freestyle Motocross in this game with top graphics, full ragdoll and realistic bike physics!

Perform gravity defying tricks, combine power, skill and showmanship to excite the fans!

And The Best Part of All!

FMX IV – Freestyle Motocross Will cost you ZERO dollars instead of $6.93!

ZTE Score Troubleshooting Note: At GetJar, if prompted for a device type, just type in Android and pick Android 2.3.

Keep on Rock’n!

ZTE Score Playing Angry Birds – Performance Example

Posted by Dana Rock on Oct 11, 2011 in Cricket, News, Reviews, Video, Video Reviews, ZTE Score | 0 comments

Better Video Review of the ZTE Score From Cricket – No More Jerky Jerky!

Posted by Dana Rock on Sep 30, 2011 in Reviews, Video, Video Reviews, ZTE Score | 0 comments

Initial Video Test of Cricket’s ZTE Score $89 Android

Posted by Dana Rock on Sep 27, 2011 in News, Reviews, Video, ZTE Score | 0 comments

See the ZTE Score in action with this YouTube video.

Initial Thoughts About the ZTE Score – A Brief Review

Posted by Dana Rock on Sep 27, 2011 in News, Reviews, Video Reviews, ZTE Score | 12 comments

Initial ZTE Score Review

Yesterday, I bought a ZTE Score from Best Buy online for a whopping $89 dollars. This makes the ZTE Score the lowest priced Android on a no-contract plan in the market. The next closest in price is the LG Optimus V from Virgin Mobile at $149.99.

I’ve had the ZTE Score for a few hours now, and I am letting it charge after my initial tinkering. While it charges, I figured I would let you know about some of my preliminary thoughts.

Specs They Do Not Tell You About

• Internal phone memory available (aka, that is free to fill up) is about 100MB and the total amount dedicated to internal storage space is about 140MB. This is pretty small. as the Virgin Mobile LG Optimus V, the Score’s closest competitor in price, has about 35MB more space on both ends.
• The Hotspot feature is present and can successfully turn on/off , and you reach the configure menu. You do have to use an app like Quicksettings or Superbox to access the Hotspot feature menu, however.
• The phone is very smooth and zippy – It can play the more advanced games like Need For Speed just fine.
• The 4GB microSD card only has 1GB of personal storage with 3GB partitioned off as “MUVE Music” storage. This is great if you intend to use the service….
• The phone’s body has the look and feel of an Iphone. The Iphone is just slightly longer and maybe slightly skinnier.
• The buttons have a different configuration order than most Android devices going (from left to right) Back, Menu, Home, Search instead of Menu, Home, Back, Search.
• Flash is not available for this phone.

Initial Things I Like:

• I am very surprised by how fast the phone is, especially with the animations off.
• I like that the hotspot feature exists and has not been “hidden” and/or turned off like Virgin Mobile has done with some of their phones
• I like that you can turn off the boot up/shutdown sound. A lot of phones do not allow this.
• The non physical buttons for home/menu/search/back are very responsive unlike my experience with Samsung phones.
• The phone supports DRM, which means that “in theory” (I have not tested this yet) the Android Movies in the market should work. The movies menu shows up when I load up the Market, so this is a cool new option.
• It connected to Wi-Fi super easy and stayed connected
• It connected to my computer (Windows 7 machine) effortlessly.
• I love the form factor – it is not too big and not too small, and the flat top screen is stellar.

Initial Things I Hate:

• I am not a fan of the partitioned microSD card, and if you want to use the MUVE Music service, you have to have one of their special microSD cards. This is probably due to the fact that this Android phone supports DRM.
• This Android 2.3 phone does not support flash.
• It does not tell you the charge level on the battery when the phone is off and it is connected to a charger – all you see is a battery filling up with green.
• When you scroll a menu and reach an end, there is a little screen distortion that happens where the edge of the phone turns a bit yellow and there are some “wave” lines. It sounds worse than it is, but it is definantly not “normal”. I may contact Best Buy/ Cricket and see if this is something that they expected to happen.
• The Score does have a plastic “ee” feel about the case that makes you think it is a cheaper phone (which it is).

The Sum of the Matter

The ZTE Score has promise. It is very clearly “budget”, but it offers nice speed and can handle some games similar phones cannot (like Need for Speed). App storage space is limited — very limited, but you will be able to take advantage of Apps2SD that moves part (not all) of an app to the microSD card.

I will continue to update ya’ll on my journey with this phone and hopefully (if I can get the blasted camera to work) post a video showing you its performance abilities.

Rock That Mobile — Signing Out!