IMDb Brings 'Everywhere App' To Android Tablets; Crosses 21M Mobile App Installs

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Tuesday, July 12th, 2011
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Amazon’s IMDb is launching a Honeycomb-optimized Android Tablet app today, adding to its existing native iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone 7 and Android apps. You can download the new app here. In total, IMDB says that its apps have seen 21 million downloads.

The Android tablet app includes much of the functionality of its cousins, featuring the latest trailers of movies, and updated entertainment news from hundreds of media outlets. You can access international movie showtimes for 13 countries including USA, UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Mexico, New Zealand Argentina and Chile. And you can log-in to apps with Facebook Connect and share updates on both Facebook and Twitter from within apps.

Today, IMDb is also releasing the next version of its Android phone app, which has been installed by 7.5 million users worldwide. New features include the ability to rate movies, create and maintain a Watchlist to track and manage movies and TV shows that you want to watch, in-depth showtime search and more.

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