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What does Google Play provide?

Google Play is a platform for you to view applications and other content before downloading to your phone. It indexes lots of information about each app, including the author's description, images, ratings, user comments and alternative suggestions.

Using Google Play (formerly known as Android Market), you can consult the charts of the latest free and paid games and applications. Though Android is able to update applications automatically, Google Play allows you to check if you have the latest version of an app installed and download the latest update if necessary.

Google Play now offers more content besides apps, including Google Play Music, Google Play Books, and Google Play Movies & TV. Like Apple's iTunes for iOS, this makes Google Play an important hub for your digital life.

Google Play allows you to set up wish lists of applications and content you'd like to download at a later point. It also lets you remotely install applications to your device from a web browser, syncing via your Google account.

Alternatives to Google Play

Although Google Play is generally easy to get around and it's simple to download and install Android apps, it's not perfect. Discovering new or interesting applications beyond the top lists offered by Google Play isn't always easy and there are other market apps for Android that can do a better job in this respect:

AppBrain App Market provides app recommendations and shows you the new and hot apps of the day. It also contains a filter for seeing which Android apps have had a price drop.

Softonic App is our very own Android application guide. This app allows you to read Android app reviews from our team of expert independent experts. You can get recommendations of the best apps for