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Windows Phone Marketplace opens in 37 new countries, adds new features

Categories: Windows Phone
By: , IntoMobile
Friday, December 14th, 2012 at 2:57 AM

Windows Phone Marketplace team has been busy these days having just announced that the store is now available in 37 additional countries, including Angola, Armenia, Bangladesh, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Congo (DRC), Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guinea, Haiti, Honduras, Kenya, Liechtenstein, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Niger, Pakistan, Paraguay, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Togo, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. With this new batch, the nation count now stands at 112, while the store is available in total of 191 markets.

But that’s not all — Windows Phone Marketplace also got universal search, as well as the ability to install apps via an SD card. Thanks to the former feature, users will see articles showing alongside apps; on the other hand, the latter is useful when there’s no Wi-Fi or cellular connectivity around and you simply must install some app…

[Via: Engadget]

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  • Anonymous

    What Microsoft needs even more are low-end smartphones which people in emerging markets can afford. Only then will this announcement make sense.