[Vanhackspace] Motorola Milestone, Rogers data plan?

[Hubert Figuiere]

On 10-06-10 10:04 AM, sean hill wrote:
> Anyone have any other thoughts on Milestone vs Nexus One?

Given how Motorola locked the Milestone, up to the point where their 
developer relation people say "buy a Nexus One if you want to develop" 
I'd say Nexus One. It is sold unlocked, be it firmware or carrier lock 
(aka sim lock) unlike the Milestone (in its north american GSM/UMTS version)

> What about other Android devices? (I've been drooling a bit over the
> Samsung Galaxy S Pro specs)
> Is Nexus One the most open/hackable Android?

My take is that one of the advantage of getting the Nexus One is that 
you get the OS upgrade on day 0. All the other Android handset of their 
own fork of the UI and therefor delays to update to the newer version. 
Worse is Canadian carrier branded devices that are even later because of 
that.... (when they are upgraded at all) -- and the sourcing for these 
outside of the carrier is hard as *often* (be not always) the European 
model does not support the 3G bands used in Canada.

I'm sure the Android experts around may have a different opinion so you 
can take mine as a grain of salt, but with my software hacker hat, I'd 
say Nexus One is the route to take for Android.

> I'm thinking about this mostly from a software hackers POV. I want to be
> able to write and install what I want for my device. That also makes me
> wonder about carriers. I've been watching Wind Mobile get going and like
> the unlimited data option, but I understand they've got a very limited
> number of ports open which really blocks development and usage. Thoughts
> on best carrier for a powerful Android?

The number of port is not "very limited" (this is IMHO very exagerated) 
but they seem to use whitelisting instead of black listing (which make 
all the special cases a PITA), and block several non TCP protocols. At 
the beginning it was much worse.


Hub