Google offers the Android application: Just in time for hunting cheap holiday

Android users will be easier to find bargains on this season with the free application Google offers available on the Android Market Thursday.

Google offers the application is designed to help customers discover, purchase and redeem deals on the go. No bids can only be purchased with a few clicks of your droid, but with some traders, who can redeem offers directly from your phone.

The application is designed around four screens:

• A "prominent" display that is the offer of the day. Thursday's agreement, for example, you purchase a coupon for $ 15 that can be redeemed for $ 25 at REI, an outdoor clothing and equipment retailer.
• Daily treatment notifier that alerts you of offers. 
• A file screen where you can see tenders to be purchased or saved, and offers that have expired. 
• A screen to redeem offers without printing. 

Initial review of the application in the Android Market has been positive. With more than 130 people weighing in software application won an average rating of 4.5 out of a maximum of five stars.

Users Weigh-in

User reviews of the Google offering is mixed. Some praise him for the simplification of Google offerings by allowing them to skip having to check the inbox. Others, like the fact that the application lets you check an agreement through the application and make a purchase within the application too.

Still, some complain about application performance in a tablet was "slow" and the menu button did not work Google offering.

Apple App: "Coming Soon"

While the application for Android at the moment can generate some envy among the applicants in accordance iPhone, Google has promised that the mobile software similar to Apple will be available shortly.

Google launched its bid in June in Portland, Oregon as the company launched the offer in more areas, it was found necessary to expand its offerings for the last month announced it would provide offers from other sites dealing with own offers.

While Google will continue to ensure that deals directly with the traders, said the company has decided to supplement with coupon offers riders another agreement. Members who have chosen to focus on special areas such as outdoor products, so that overlap is minimized.

Too late to jump on the bandwagon of Groupon?

Google came late to the company dealing with every day, and bitter debate over whether or not the business peaked already. Due to the success of teams like Groupon , dozens of imitators sprang filling email boxes more offers from many consumers could handle.

Other analysts, however, say that the "deal fatigue" is not affecting the market yet. "We see no evidence of fatigue compared to day," wrote a couple of researchers in September. "Instead, more users a day in front (those who bought more than 11 specials) are the most enthusiastic about them."

Regular users "indicates the increased interest in controlling your email address provided daily, have no problem with the use of the offers before they expire, I think that deals with every day will help save money on things that would have bought anyway, and say: integrated these operations in the usual buying habits, "they added.

Moreover, all users a day according to a study by the researchers, said the intention of buying an agreement next month.