Shane Isbell wrote: > As for Bluetooth, it doesn't matter if the device > supports Bluetooth at the hardware level if it is not supported at the > Android level.
There are roughly three levels of Bluetooth support, not two: -- hardware -- OS (supporting some Bluetooth profiles) -- application (using OS-provided APIs) It would appear that Android 1.0 supports the first two, not the third. It is unclear at this time if a firmware update might add back in application-level Bluetooth access or not -- I don't know the logistics of that. > The device is crippled. For developers who were aiming to use Bluetooth at the application level, certainly. But, let's face it, even compared to the full roster of potential developers, that's a small percentage. And compared to the hoped-for *users* of the device, it's a drop that evaporated en route to the bucket. Users are going to expect their standard suite of Bluetooth profiles, what we know as A2DP, HFP, HSP, etc. If the Dream/Android 1.0 fail to offer enough of those, the device is definitely borked...but we probably won't know that until we get an official spec sheet from T-Mobile. It sounds like Google/OHA had an unpleasant choice: either ship without application-level Bluetooth and irritate a percentage of their developer base, or ship weeks or months later than planned and irritate the ENTIRE developer base. Frankly, I can't blame them for the choice they made. Then again, I had no plans on writing Bluetooth-aware applications, either, so I'm biased... -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ Version 1.1 Published! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" 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-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
