In another move from Amazon that I’m just absolutely loving right now, they’ve introduced a feature that’ll allow you to “test drive” several applications on their Android Appstore before you take the plunge and buy it. It emulates an Android app (as well as other parts of the OS) and gives you the usual host of buttons found on the front of an Android phone. Your mouse is used to “touch” the screen to perform various actions. (There is obviously no accelerometer emulation.)
There are only about 20 games and apps on the appstore with this functionality including Amazon MP3, IMDB, Paper Toss, Kindle, and more. It’s a great new feature that I hope to see implemented for other new releases on their appstore. Amazon was met with a bit of resistance when they told everyone they were making an appstore, but the things they’re doing with it that are different from the Android market and other app stores will slowly turn doubters into believers. Go ahead and try out one of the titles at their site now. [via Engadget]
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