As of today, Coinciding with the launching of Nokia Lumia series, Windows Phone Marketplace Indonesia is officially go live. Apart of being directly accessed using Windows Phone (by choosing Indonesia region first), we could also take a look of what is it inside Marketplace throught its site, either for app or games. The frontpage however is still not fully translated from Spanish.

I had a chance to try Marketplace Indonesia few days back during limited preview of Lumia and found out it still lacks of popular apps, like Twitter, Facebook or Twitter. It’s supposed that every Windows Phone owner in Indonesia able to set their marketplace to Indonesia region and easily download the apps and games. For paid apps, the purchase is available using credit card. Hopefully, in near future there will be cooperation with telecom operators so that users may opt for operator billing as their primary payment. The latter method is preferred because the possession of credit card in Indonesia is still somewhat limited.

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Bertepatan dengan peluncuran jajaran Nokia Lumia hari ini, Windows Phone Marketplace Indonesia secara resmi go live. Selain diakses langsung melalui smartphone Windows Phone (dengan memilih region Indonesia terlebih dahulu), kita bisa melihat-lihat aplikasi apa saja yang sudah ada di Marketplace ini melalui situsnya, baik untuk aplikasi maupun permainan. Halaman frontpage-nya sendiri masih belum murni ditranslasi dari basisnya yang berbahasa Spanyol.

Saya sempat mencoba menggunakan Marketplace Indonesia beberapa waktu yang lalu saat preview Lumia untuk kalangan terbatas tapi kebanyakan aplikasi masih belum tersedia, termasuk jajaran aplikasi populer macam Twitter, Facebook ataupun Foursquare. Seharusnya sekarang semua pemilik ponsel Windows Phone sudah bisa menggunakan aplikasi dan permainan dengan mudah di region Indonesia ini. Untuk aplikasi berbayar, saat ini pembayaran bisa dilakukan melalui kartu kredit. Semoga di masa datang akan ada kerjasama supaya bisa menggunakan operator billing sebagai metode pembayaran.

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