Samsung Apps Has Served Up 100 Million Application Downloads [Samsung Apps, Only 10 Months Old & Already Past The 100 Million Download Mark With 13,000 Available Apps]

Posted on TFTS by Robert Nelson on Thursday, 24. March 2011 under: Mobile/Cell Phones

Samsung has reached a rather nice milestone with their Samsung Apps app store, they have officially served up 100 million downloads. And on top of that have done so in just 10 months time. Of course, with the Samsung Apps store now being available in over 120 countries across the world — there are likely a decent amount of users. Not to mention, being available for mobile and television.

That said, the Samsung App store kicked things off in June of 2010 when it began with support for just one device, the Samsung Wave (GT-S8500). At present, the top three most downloaded apps include;

Magic Torch (Magic App’s)
Need for Speed Shift (Electronic Arts)
Asphalt 5 (Gameloft)

In addition, some of the other more popular downloads include items from the transportation and navigation categories such as London Traffic and Ndrive France. And as you can see from those names, they are apps for London and France, which coincidentally, France is one of the more popular locations for Samsung Apps.

Although, the Samsung Apps store is available in the 120 countries, the top three most popular include France, Germany and Spain, which make up for 40 percent of all downloads.

Otherwise, Samsung Apps currently has 13,000 available apps and seems to have only been increasing in use and app amount. According to the details provided by Samsung, the available apps make for “a six-fold increase since the store’s first day” and the first 10 million downloads were achieved in the first three months. In other words, it has taken Samsung only from month 4 to month 10 to get the additional 90 million downloads.

And lastly, Samsung is also going to mark the 100 million download mark by a little contest with weekly prizes where “lucky winners will be selected at random and could walk away with a Samsung Galaxy Tablet, Galaxy Player, USB sticks, or vouchers from the Samsung Apps.”