jbraun wrote: > I don’t know about you, but I feel very disappointed with G1. I bought > it because, being related to Google, I would enjoy a really open > framework. Now, I realize that 3G only works in the 1700/2100 > frequencies, which is basically compatible with just one carrier in > the whole world. On top of that, I can’t use the paid Market, so > effectively unable to enjoy the benefit of thousands of developers > working on productivity or entertainment applications for, obviously, > a monetary retribution. In fact many of the best free applications are > now paid. > And people complaint that the iphone was blocked. > > The reason(s) I haven't purchased a developer phone yet is I wasn't overly impressed with the G1 and wanted to see what the Sony and Samsung Android phones are like first. Second, I'm on AT&T with a years worth of rollover anytime minutes (I don't use my phone very much) and there seems to be problems using the G1 with AT&T. With more Android phones coming on the market we're going to have to rely on the emulator to be good enough because unless you are a huge company you can't justify having each phone. I've been developing for PDAs starting with the Palm over 11 years ago. I bought one Palm device and one Pocket PC. Everything else has been done via emulator or simulator.
Before I dove into Android I built an app for the Samsung Instinct using Sprint's development kit and LWUIT and that took two weeks from start to beta. Took a bit longer for Android. And if I recall right Sprint had a month to month developer phone plan for about $30 a month. I will probably complete those projects too and make them available to my customers (some who have Instinct phones). --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
