1. You definitely can buy the phone sans contract but your going to pay the full retail price ($400+tax I believe). My friend did just that and got the unlock code to use it with AT&T. 2. After you create/sign in to your google account, it acts like a regular G1 without the phone part. Everything else still works the same. 3. I just tried booting my G1 with no SIM card and it wasn't able to locate my position in Google Maps. You might be able to get away with putting in the included SIM card without it being activated, but its not going to work without a card.
On Nov 8, 11:48 am, William Pietri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Daniel Holbert wrote: > >> * Is there a way for me to just buy the G1 without phone service for > >> a reasonable price? > > > When I bought mine at Best Buy, I had the option of buying *just* the > > phone for around $500, as compared to $179 with the phone plan. > > > Whether that's a "reasonable price" depends on your budget, I > > guess. :) > > Thanks! For me, that's at the edge of reasonable for a hobby project > that I'll give away, but definitely doable. And worlds better than the > cost of a contract. > > Has anybody actually bought one like that and used it happily for > development without getting phone service? > > I'm especially interested if the GPS and cell-network-driven pseudoGPS > work just the same as a G1 with phone service. > > Thanks, > > William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
