Since the question comes up of what dev phone to use, I thought I'd post my initial experience with a Nexus One as a dev device.
I got a Nexus One from Ebay with Froyo loaded. It is for TMobile and is working with my prepaid SIM card and sometimes working with wifi. Since getting it, I have been able to develop and test pinch and zoom, which will be a benefit to my customers. Nonetheless, I have a few questions. System Updates: A few times, it has tried to install a system update (its on FRF50 now). It goes to system recovery and then fails because of a lack of signature on the update. Is there a way to manually install these updates. If not, will these ever work if I don't have a data plan? WIFI drops This phone has been terrible about dropping wifi in my house, while my G1, laptop, and Windows Mobile 6 devices have all been fine. I can pretty much count on the fact that wifi won't work every time I go to pick it up. The wifi status still shows it connected to my local network as if nothing is wrong, but the market, the browser, and every other app using internet will be in a fail state. In advanced WIFI settings, the Wi-Fi sleep policy is set to "Never", but the behavior is as if it were set to "Always" Has anyone with some Nexus One Experience worked around these issues? I happen to also be the network administrator for my househould ;), so I can set up my Belkin router differently if that helps. Thanks, Nathan -- 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.
