Or give it to a fellow developer :)

On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Streets Of Boston
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm not expecting anything. I'm glad i was in time for the
> registration and have a seat :-)
> But one can hope... :-)
>
> And, i already have a Nexus... if they give us a phone, i probably
> have to put it on e-bay or something.
>
> On Feb 6, 5:06 pm, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote:
>> It means bring a laptop with 2.1 installed.
>>
>> Don't take it for granted you're going to get a Nexus. From the talks I've 
>> had this week I'm sure they will do what they can, but the talks are being 
>> organised on a local ad-hoc level and so they can only do so much.
>>
>> Al.
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>> On 6 Feb 2010, at 19:25, Streets Of Boston wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> > Aha... for the one in cambridge, they asked us to bring a laptop with
>> > sdk 2.1 installed...
>> > This means a free Nexus...? :-)
>>
>> > On Feb 6, 12:23 pm, Steeler <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> "And, thanks to Googles generosity at the Android Developer Lab in
>> >> London yesterday (yes, that means it was a freebie);"
>>
>> >> You got Nexus Ones? We got Droids in the one I went to in the U.S.,
>> >> but then they focused the lab on 2.0.1 and not 2.1.
>>
>> >> On Feb 3, 1:33 am, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> >>> Personally I don't think there is a single "best" device because the 
>> >>> number of devices around mean that one test device probably isn't going 
>> >>> to cover all the basis.
>>
>> >>> At the moment we have 4 test devices which cover the following;
>>
>> >>> HTC Tattoo - LCD QVGA screen, Direction pad, HTC Sense UI, no auto-focus 
>> >>> camera, Android 1.6
>> >>> G1 - LCD HVGA Screen, Track ball, keyboard, auto-focus "lower-res" 
>> >>> camera, Android 1.6
>> >>> Acer Liquid - LCD WVGA screen, No trackball or direction pad, auto-focus 
>> >>> "higher-res" camera, Android 1.6
>>
>> >>> And, thanks to Googles generosity at the Android Developer Lab in London 
>> >>> yesterday (yes, that means it was a freebie);
>>
>> >>> Nexus One - AMOLED WVGA Screen, trackball, auto-focus "higher-res" 
>> >>> camera with flash, Android 2.1
>>
>> >>> This lets us cover the most of the bases of input methods, screen sizes, 
>> >>> and camera abilities.
>>
>> >>> At the moment we're ensure all mainstream development runs on 1.6. There 
>> >>> are a lot of devices out there with 1.6 on them, some may never see 
>> >>> 2.0+, and so using 2.0+ features which would mean abandoning the 1.6 
>> >>> users currently doesn't make much sense.
>>
>> >>> Hope that's useful,
>>
>> >>> Al.
>>
>> >>> P.S. For those interested; the Android developer lab would have been 
>> >>> well worth the 4+ hour round trip for me even if I didn't get a freebie 
>> >>> phone. If you've not registered for one and there is space at your local 
>> >>> lab I'd recommend it as it really is useful to meet people face to face 
>> >>> and chat over some ideas.
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>> >>> On 3 Feb 2010, at 06:16, JP wrote:
>>
>> >>>>> Fast hardware can mask performance issues,
>> >>>> Very good point there. The emulator to me seems to be "reasonably
>> >>>> slow" for a good emulation of the G1 however.
>>
>> >>>> Outside of that, I'd go with the N1. If I did Android development all
>> >>>> day, the time savings when debugging on the device will add up.
>>
>> >>>> I have yet to see a nicely built Android device. Haven't nearly seen
>> >>>> them all though.
>> >>>> By and large there's always a level of flimsiness and they all (the
>> >>>> HTC's at least) heat up when being charged/GPS is on//searching for a
>> >>>> network... or whatever. Cheap parts everywhere you look, but if you
>> >>>> use it for development that shouldn't matter that much.
>>
>> >>>> On Feb 2, 10:04 pm, String <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>>>> On Feb 2, 7:08 pm, Jonathan <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> >>>>>> I would also like to know which phone(hardware name) is nicely built
>> >>>>>> and 'the best' 2.0 phone and supports nicely for my Android 2.0
>> >>>>>> application development and testing?
>>
>> >>>>> IMHO, you're better off developing on a phone which ISN'T the latest/
>> >>>>> fastest hardware. Fast hardware can mask performance issues, which
>> >>>>> will nonetheless be seen by the large percentage of users who are
>> >>>>> still on older/slower hardware.
>>
>> >>>>> Also, there is no single "best" phone. It's all a matter of
>> >>>>> opinion. :^)
>>
>> >>>>> String
>>
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