I think you are right. The blogosphere is talking a lot about the Motorola Backflip on ATT, running 1.5. As I understand it they say there is no google search, it has yahoo search instead, it still has most google apps, including the market, but you can't install applications from non market sources?
I am ready to withhold judgement until the phone is selling, or better yet I get my hands on one. Still it had me worried so I checked out Motorola's documentation and found this great page: http://developer.motorola.com/products/ I see a lot of handsets on there I didn't know about that support Android 2.x and am therefore less worried. Here is the page for the Backflip: http://developer.motorola.com/products/backflip/ here is a page that links to which is a user product page http://www.motorola.com/Consumers/US-EN/Consumer-Product-and-Services/Mobile-Phones/Motorola-BACKFLIP-with-MOTOBLUR-US-EN -MK On Mar 6, 10:25 am, Chris Stratton <[email protected]> wrote: > I could see a world in which android productively fragm... > differentiates into several tiers: > > Tier 1 devices are actively supported by manufacturers who provide > updates, host their own markets (or boutiques within markets) of apps > they have tested and certified to work well with their devices, and > encourage such development with device seeding, developer conferences > and webinars, maybe even the odd contract or in house application. > > Tier 2 devices are fairly well done but shipped and somewhat abondoned > - few updates, left to the generic pool of apps that may or may not > fit well but usually somewhat work. > > Tier 3 devices are like tier 2, only the manufacturer didnt properly > or completely implement android in the first place. They will come > from the usual suspects, and you will get the experience you pay for. > > Tier "alt" devices are hardware of any sort running user or community > maintained builds. -- 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.
