Eric Chu wrote:

Hello,

I’m writing to let you know that Android Market will become available to users in Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Netherlands, and Poland in the coming weeks. You can now target these countries for your application(s) via the publisher website at market.android.com/publish. As we add support for additional countries, we will send out subsequent notifications to you. Note that your apps will not become available in these new countries unless you specifically select them in the publisher website.

Thanks for your support, and we look forward to continue working with you on Android Market.

Eric Chu, Android Market”

This means that application developers can now start to build applications for Android-powered phones before most of the countries cited above actually have access to devices that run Google’s open-source mobile OS. We see this as a hint that Google is ready to move fast in launching compatible phones across Europe.