New Categories in Android Market: Comics, Health, Sports, Themes

As announced earlier this month in the android developers blog, Android Market got four new Categories for Applications: Comics, Health, Sports, Themes.

left to right: Application Categories; Comics; Health

Many of us expected this to happen with the next Android update to version 1.6, which also includes a white Theme for the Market.

Each of the new categories currently contains about 50 apps. I expect the list to grow rapidly; due to the small amount of applications new apps are a lot more visible to users, and now it would be easier than anytime later to secure a top spot in the “by popularity” listings.

The next update of MyMarket (planned for today (Wednesday) or tomorrow) will also include the new categories.