[Vanhackspace] Motorola Milestone, Rogers data plan?

[Tim Bray]

Well, and it means what you mean by "development".  If you want to
write Android apps, any old phone will do just fine, except for the N1
loads your app and runs tests faster.  (Protip: Way faster than the
emulator).  If you want to do kernel stuff and alt ROMs and so on,
what everyone said.

Anyhow, the pipeline of new phones coming down the pipe is
stuffed-to-bulging, so whatever is true today will be false in a few
months.  -T

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Joe Bowser <joe.bowser at nitobi.com> wrote:
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> 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.)
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> 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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