[Vanhackspace] Motorola Milestone, Rogers data plan?

[Luke Closs]

We should do another android hacking night sometime in July.  Anyone
want to host or pitch talks?


On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Tim Bray <tbray at textuality.com> wrote:
> 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:
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 9:31 PM, sean hill <seansghost at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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,
>>>
>>> Sorry Joe, a little confused here as in a later message you said:
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> > Honestly, I'd just get the Nexus One that works on RoBelUs
>>>
>>> Are you suggesting one combo for certain uses (ie. hackability) and the
>>> other for other uses?
>>>
>>
>> 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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