[Vanhackspace] Motorola Milestone, Rogers data plan?

[Joe Bowser]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 9:31 PM, sean hill <seansghost at gmail.com> wrote:

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> I personally use an AT&T Nexus One on Telus (aka. Passion-A).  If you're
>> looking for maximum hackability, I would recommend the Nexus One/WIND Mobile
>> combo,
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> Sorry Joe, a little confused here as in a later message you said:
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> > Honestly, I'd just get the Nexus One that works on RoBelUs
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> Are you suggesting one combo for certain uses (ie. hackability) and the
> other for other uses?
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Yes.  They are identical except for the Radio they use.  One has a radio for
the WIND band, and gets updates sooner than the AT&T band.  For example,
there's a test build of Froyo (Android 2.2) floating around for the AWS
version but not for the RoBelUs version.  If you were to flash a Passion
firmware on a Passion-A, best case scenario would be the phone failing to
work, and worse case would be bricking your device because you put the wrong
baseband radio on the phone.  (Note: I've never done this, and don't plan on
experimenting.  While developing phones for Android makes getting phones
cheap, these phones are expensive to replace.)

So, are you using it purely for development, or are you planning on making
it your phone as well?  That is the deciding factor at the end of the day.

Joe
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