Hasta La Gadget!

A screen shot of part of the page you would see when visiting amazon.com/apps before it was taken down. Photo: androidnews.de

Android fans shouldn’t have to wait too much longer for Amazon’s anticipated Android App Store.

A sneaky Android fan typed http://www.amazon.com/apps into his address bar and discovered a horizontal sliding menu of 48 apps and their prices.

Popular titles and tools such as EasyTether, Wolfram Alpha, Zenonia, SetCPU, and The Moron Test appear to be among the app store’s premier lineup.

The link above has since been removed; it now redirects to Amazon’s homepage. Before its removal, you could view the apps as long as you were logged out of your Amazon account. If you were logged in, Recent History recommendations would replace the app suggestions.

Amazon’s Android App Store, which was announced back in September, will be an alternative to Google’s own App Store, and is reported to be curated more like Apple’s App Store: Amazon will select what goes in, rather than Google’s “anything goes” policy. Also unlike Apple, Google allows multiple app stores on its Android operating system.

The screenshots support the claim that Amazon’s Android apps will be competitively priced with Google’s app store. Most apps are priced identically across both markets, a few are slightly cheaper, and a handful are more expensive. A full listing of the apps and their prices are available at the source link.

Although a firm release date hasn’t been set, the service is expected to launch “very soon” and will exclusively feature the Angry Birds Rio game.

Amazon Appstore: Apps and Prices Leak [androidnews.de]