“At Samsung, carriers and application developers are the most important groups we work with,” said Gavin Kim, vice president of content and services, Samsung Mobile. “With the Samsung Widget Store, we’re facilitating a rich ecosystem of widgets to showcase the potential for our TouchWiz devices, and we selected PocketGear for their carrier-grade Fuel Platform and their proven ability to scale a fully integrated service across the largest carrier networks, helping us to rapidly accelerate our time to market.”

Developers can download the Samsung Widget SDK to easily create innovative widgets using open Web standards and tools, and register to upload their applications for distribution on the Samsung Widget Store by visiting http://innovator.samsungmobile.com.

PocketGear is celebrating the launch with a 25%-Off site-wide-sale at all of its app stores, including PocketGear.com, PalmGear.com, SymbianGear.com, RIMGear.com, Mobile2Day.com, and of course AndroidGear.com. By entering the voucher code “SALE25″ users save 25% on all apps purchased until November 30, 2008. The sale code is also valid on all of PocketGear Germany’s sites.

In addition to the launch of AndroidGear.com, PocketGear also announced today the launch of the first German-language Android app store, AndroidGear.de, and the UK-version AndroidGear.co.uk.