This isn’t an especially techie post, but I think it’s worthwhile mentioning it as I haven’t seen any other posts about it online. I just discovered this totally by accident as I browsing the Android Market, but us lowly South Africans now have access to the premium (paid for) Android apps!

There does, however, seem to be some restrictions on it – I’m not sure what the criteria are, but some apps are available to us while a few others aren’t. I will update this post when I have an update on that situation. To get the apps just open up the Market app on your phone or head on over to http://market.android.com/ in your browser and shop to your heart’s content (or at least, until you find an app that you can’t buy). We can finally get those beautiful premium apps without having to go through the messy (and often unsuccessful) process of contacting developers directly.

For a list of some of the most useful (and free) Android apps that I’ve discovered have a look here.