Sanjay Jha, co-CEO of Motorola and CEO of Motorola Mobile Devices, speaking in San Francisco in 2009. Some of Motorola’s smartphones will now feature TV apps. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

By Wailin Wong | New applications for watching television shows and reading books are coming to the Android mobile operating system.
 
QuickPlay Media Inc. said PrimeTime2Go, a monthly mobile TV
subscription service, is now available on a small number of Motorola
devices, including the Cliq at T-Mobile and the Droid at Verizon
Wireless. More Motorola Android phones will be enabled for the service
in the “coming months,” QuickPlay said in a Tuesday statement.

PrimeTime2Go costs $9.99 per month and allows subscribers to download episodes of TV shows via the WiFi connection on their mobile phone. After a show is downloaded, users can watch it anytime, even without a WiFi or data connection. Episodes cannot be transferred from the phone onto another device, and most episodes expire after approximately two weeks, according to PrimeTime2Go’s website.

The TV subscription service is already available for a handful of BlackBerry devices and offers shows such as “30 Rock,” “The Office,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Lost,” and “The Daily Show.”

On the e-reader side, Amazon announced late Monday that an Android version of its Kindle app will be available this summer. Like the Kindle’s iPhone app, the Android version will feature technology that remembers a reader’s bookmarks across devices. Neither the iPhone nor the Android app offer magazines, newspapers or blogs.

Amazon said it offers more than 540,000 books in its Kindle store.