I agree that quality is priceless. I know this first-hand from spending several years in testing and quality assurance.
It might be possible for an institution to purchase 20 different phone models to test on. But how is an independent individual developer like me supposed to purchase so many phones, when perhaps all of them would be locked to a carrier and most would come with a 2yr service agreement? I am also not based in the US. Is there a more feasible way without compromising on quality? Eric's spreadsheet is awesome! Here's another one I found pertaining to US carriers: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tIuLv6KThktwpCyNu5lbrWQ&gid=0 - Pankaj. On Nov 11, 9:13 am, PJ <[email protected]> wrote: > I can't agree more with Eric. Why get 20 phones that are all > identical? Get some variety so that you write apps that work as > expected for multiple devices. You can't put a price tag on quality. > It's not worth saving $50 per phone if you end up writing an app that > breaks on a particular device and you get a bunch of upset customers > and bad ratings/image. > > You definitely want to vary things like: > * hard keyboard vs soft keyboard > * high-res screens vs low-res screens > * fast vs slow cpus > > And Eric's link to that spreadsheet is freaking great. > > -- PJ > > On Nov 10, 5:42 pm, "Eric Wong (hdmp4.com)" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I would say get at least one unit for each Android models out there? > > Since every unit seems to have slight variation of Android > > implementation and apk tested on one may not work on the other. > > > Hope this spreadsheet would > > helphttp://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=rdm8c2ZfSDKd5l-dVy4SrnA&output... > > > Cheers > > Eric > > > On Nov 10, 12:31 pm, Ash <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I'm new to android development. We need to buy around 20 phones for > > > android development for our university. Please share your views and > > > comments on the phone you think is good for Android development. > > > > Thank You > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
