[Vanhackspace] Motorola Milestone, Rogers data plan?

[Luke Closs]

I'm on WIND and I love it, despite some port blocking. (My work SSL
IRC server cannot be reached. But I just use ssh port forwarding to
tunnel through, works great).  Fast 3G is FAST!

Luke

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Hubert Figuiere <hub at figuiere.net> wrote:
> 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
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