Dianne Hackborn wrote:
> There shouldn't be any until WVGA is officially supported in the
> platform.  That is planned for 1.6, but 1.6 is not yet officially
> supported, and there is a fair lag from when the platform software is
> done to new devices being released with it.

Uh, no offense, but HTC Magic devices shipped with Android 1.5 right
about when the SDK became available. In Spain, IIRC. You may recall
modest gnashing of teeth over this.

While the core Android team may know timelines vis a vis product
launches, we out here in the hinterlands have to plan for another
possible "here's the SDK! better support it tomorrow!" release.

> Afaik, the Archos tablet is based on 1.5, and thus does not use the
> official screen support in the 1.6 platform.  I have no idea what
> exactly they are doing, but unless it is a 1.6-based device, it would be
> of questionable value for someone wanting to follow the standard platform.

If it sells in decent quantity, or looks like it might, whether it is
"the standard platform" or not means little -- we have to know how to
support it. That means some of us will need to get our grubby
medium-sized hands on it, to test apps and advise others. In fact, the
possibility that they *do* deviate from the norm is all the more reason
some of us will need hardware, since we will not be able to rely upon
emulators as much.

As the long-standing Chinese proverb/curse goes: "May you live in
interesting mobile OS platforms" (or something like that)...

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