I bought a Droid for development in December and use it with wifi. Bypassed activation by tapping the corners of the screen (I live in Europe so no other options for me). No issues at all with the device.
On Apr 23, 2:17 am, Nathan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Apr 22, 1:47 pm, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Nathan wrote: > > > So even though you can buy a Nexus One without a plan, you can't start > > > using it without one? That's too bad. > > > Bear in mind that all you need is *somebody* with a SIM, a data plan, > > and five minutes. After that, you can go SIM-less or use a prepaid SIM > > (if you want to play around with telephony stuff). > > > You're not limited to a T-Mobile store clerk -- it can be anyone handy > > meeting those criteria. > > > "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your SIMs; I come to activate my > > phone, not to praise this $#*#)@ Google Experience mandatory Google > > account requirement", to loosely paraphrase The Bard. > > I'll be looking for some more friends. > > You probably can't do this with the Droid, since the Droid doesn't use > a SIM card. So is Droid out of the running? Used Droids are running > about $200 cheaper than used Nexus Ones. > > Nathan > > -- > 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 > athttp://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- 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

