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Back when OpenTable launched on the iPhone in November of last year, one of the very first comments we got on the story was from a gent named Chris. “Unless it’s on Android, it’s useless,” it read.
Good news, Chris! OpenTable is no longer useless to you. This morning, the online restaurant reservation service launched their app onto the Android Market.
As with both their web service and the applications available on other platforms, the OpenTable Android app serves as a means of checking for and reserving tables without having to dial any numbers, wait on hold, or strike up a conversation with a hostess. Punch in a date, time, and party size, and OpenTable will spit back a list of restaurants that fit the bill. Pick the one you want, and OpenTable will get your name on the list.
The Android app takes things a step or two further than the iPhone variant, making use of Androids ability to tie multiple applications together. They’ve partnered with both WHERE and GoodFood here, allowing users to drill down to a restaurant in either app and immediately hop into OpenTable to make the reservation.
It’s easy, it works well, and best of all, it’s free. Check it out in the Android Market.
I shall remain the only commenter in this post.
*This application is useless, because on my Android phone, Google maps links me directly to the phone numbers of any restaurants that I can dial with one click.
so lame, 50000 apps of App Store are ebooks, comics, city maps, babes galleries, lite versions of paid apps, very-very awful mini funny applet or something that is already existing in iphone os 3.0, just the (l)users don’t find on his phone
Ok bring this to the palm pre please.
Hi Frank,
There is actually an OpenTable app for Palm Pre. It’s available in the Palm App Catalog on your device.
Ali
I was happy to see this app in the Market… until I saw its file size of over 3 MB’s when installed. I’m sorry but why does an app whose only job is to reserve tables at restaurants that big.
Did they forget that unlike the iPhone, most Android phones have limited internal storage and apps can’t be installed on the SD card (unless you root the phone)?
*need to be that big
OpenTable on both iPhone and Android. But Android has a very good ability to tie multiple applications together at the same time.
It sounds to me like fixing that limitation should be Priority #1 for Google. If it’s a technical limitation, all those tossers saying “oh, but it has SD and that’s even better than built-in because it’s expandable” are clearly very wrong indeed. Space is almost never any sort of issue for iPhone/Pre users and their apps.
I’ve never had any issues with to little space. And I’ve got a cr@p load of apps…
OpenTable’s entry in to Android powers up both android and OpenTable Market. Android creates variants to iPhone apps. The Android app store develops parallel to iPhone app store. The apps store expands to hit with greater innovations.