Android market coming soon with billing

Just received this email from Google’s Eric Chu as an Android Marketplace member:

Android Market will become available to users to download apps in additional European countries starting early Q1 2009. Some of the countries we will initially support are Germany, Austria, Czech Republic and the Netherlands. As we add support for additional countries in Europe and Asia, we will send out subsequent notifications to you. (…)

Additionally, I would like to confirm that Android Market will support priced applications starting early Q1 2009, as we’d originally stated last fall. Given the country-by-country work required to set up payment support for developers in different countries, we will enable priced app support in Q1 for developers operating in these countries in the following order: (1) United States and UK; (2) Germany, Austria and Netherlands; (3) France, Italy and Spain.

Two excellent news opening a new direction for business opportunities and that should energize the entrepreneurs reading this blog !

Btw, so excited, I’m getting y development G1 phone next week to try out this field (2009 starts geeky!)