I chose the Eris when Verizon introduced it on the 8th of November
because it was only a $99 investment. I also wanted to change carriers
for certain reasons from AT&T to Verizon (no regrets there). HTC has
the most experience developing Android devices. Once I had a device I
found I needed only to fix only a few minor things on my free apps and
nothing on my paid one. I agree a device is important but development
these days is a gamble.
Matt Kanninen wrote:
How did you come to choose the Eris?
On Mar 9, 7:09 pm, Brian Conrad <[email protected]> wrote:
FYI Matt, I own an HTC Eris. And I didn't mention 'simulators" which
both Palm and Pocket PC also had which I found to also good for testing.
Matt Kanninen wrote:
If you can't afford to "own" a phone, don't. Rent one, borrow one, or
partner with someone who can rent or borrow one. Such as
DeviceAnywhere.
There is no way an emulator can ever replace the need to test on the
same hardware your users will use. If you plan to limit your
application to emulators that have the Market installed, THEN I am ok
with you only testing on the emulator. I would suggest if you do
that, and you detect that your application is being run on something
else you popup a warning message that your product is not supported on
that platform. Kind of like Google does for Wave on Android.
Neither the Palm, nor Windows Mobile emulators are as good as you seem
to be claiming they are. They certainly weren't 2-4 years ago. I
admit I haven't used the emulator for either in a couple years, but I
can't imagine anything they could have done that could replace testing
on an actual device used by a consumer.
You do not need to own the phone, you simply need access to it.
-MK
On Mar 9, 1:12 pm, Brian Conrad <[email protected]> wrote:
Matt Kanninen wrote:
I doubt its an accident that you are required to have a phone to fully
participate in the Android Market. I don't want more developers
shipping applications without testing them on phones. Does anyone?
Though owning a phone is a good idea many can't afford owning "phones."
Hence the emulator should be robust enough like the Palm and even
Windows Mobile ones are and have been for years to test applications.
I only owned one of each of those devices.
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