I'm sceptic about this. The biggest (only?) customers of Android phones is carriers. Period. And if Google decided to sell their own phones, people might choose only those phones => carriers (once again, biggest customers of Android phones) would be unhappy. This is simply conflict of interest.
On Feb 27, 8:07 am, Erik Martino <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes except that the dev phone cannot purchase applications in Andoid > market, as far as I understand. A smart phone with no extra > applications is not a smart phone. > > If I am a mobile carrier and wants to sell a small number of simlocked > Android phone along with the 100 other models in my phone shop, the > dev phone is not an option. As an individual user, the dev phone is > not an option either because of the missing android market and because > the shipping costs of the dev phone is so high it is a joke. > > /erik > > On Feb 26, 8:46 pm, Disconnect <[email protected]> wrote: > > > OK I found it (thanks to android-dls.com > > wiki)http://code.google.com/android/dev-devices.html > > > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Disconnect <[email protected]> wrote: > > > You mean the ADP1? (I'd post a link but google fails at itself. Its > > > somewhere in android.com though.) > > > > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Erik Martino > > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > >> Does anybody know if there are plans to make a carrier neutral Android > > >> phone. Traditional mobile phone makers spits out tons of carrier > > >> neutral phone models. The vast majority of mobile phone owners are not > > >> subscribers of T-Mobile and Vodafone. Its a huge market opportunity > > >> lost. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
