hmmm, hasn't killed the windows market.... On Mar 8, 5:38 pm, Matt Kanninen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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... > > -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.
