With the whole school word unceasingly noisy most the stylish newborn smartphone, it’s cushy to block that around 75% of handsets oversubscribed are base feature phones – ofttimes lovingly referred to as “dumb phones”. With these phones mostly absent an authorised “App Store” of their own, users invoke to the scheme to encounter newborn applications. One of the most favourite resources for this determine is GetJar, a intimate of over liberated 20,000 applications. While GetJar offers a sort of applications for smartphones, their direct mettlesome seems to be J2ME-based applications for phones with a taste inferior muscle.

Of GetJar’s liberated offerings, 3 discover of 5 of the most downloaded applications are IM clients. Later this morning, digit of of these IM clients, eBuddy Mobile Messenger, module be announcing that they hit surpassed 10 meg downloads on GetJar’s app store.

eBuddy is easily the most hard downloaded covering in GetJar’s catalog, actuation in roughly 375,000 downloads apiece week. In the 72 weeks since their Nov ‘07 launch, eBuddy has claimed the #1 download blot for 34 of them. At the instance of announcement, they’re already substantially on their artefact to 11 meg (Currently at 10,783,054).

According to eBuddy, such of their success is cod to GetJar’s in-house business system, which they call “Get Traffic”. Through this system, developers effort for above-the-fold positioning in GetJar’s see and feeding pages, exclusive stipendiary when a individual downloads their covering after clicking finished the advertisement. While they aren’t distribution just how eBuddy’s download drawing hit reinforced since they began advertising, GetJar does verify us that the ad grouping mostly improves an app’s download evaluate by roughly 200%, with eBuddy CEO Jan-Joost Rueb locution they’ve grown “exponentially”. No word on how such eBuddy’s crusade has outlay them, but we do undergo that bids begin at $.01 and occasionally go upwardly of $.50 per download.

While this Pay-per-download help seems quite advantageous for developers, whatever of the ads do seem a taste dishonorable to us. Partnered applications are ofttimes settled within a incase tagged “Selected”, which our consumer-side would hit acknowledged meant “Apps we’ve manually chosen to highlight”, not “Apps that clear us money to be here”. As farther as we crapper tell, the individual is not told that the covering is existence highlighted cod to a paying partnership.

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