Huawei enters app store race with Digital Shopping Mall

Chinese networking equipment maker Huawei is the latest entrant into the expanding app store ecosystem, launching Digital Shopping Mall, a hosted, cross-platform effort boasting 80,000 mobile applications alongside music, videos and ebooks. Touted by Huawei as a solution for operators worldwide who wish to introduce an app store without investing the time or resources to build their own marketplace, Digital Shopping Mall features applications for multiple operating systems including Android, Windows Mobile and Symbian as well as social networking features enabling consumers to share and recommend content. Operator partners can customize the storefront according to their individual needs and demands, offering both carrier billing and credit card options.

Huawei will offer 70 percent of revenues to developers and publishers who distribute and sell premium content via Digital Shopping Mall, handing over the remaining 30 percent to its service provider partners. In addition to mobile handsets, consumers may access the store using desktop computers, iPads, ereaders, televisions and other connected devices. Huawei notes that it has not yet signed up an operator partner to launch the store.

For more on Digital Shopping Mall:
- read this PCWorld article

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