> It makes the phone a little more chunky, but I tend to get 8hrs of > useful life out of it, compared to the 2-4 from the regular battery,
Is that talk time or standby time? Is Rogers really selling a phone that has only 2-4 hours of standby? Openmoko phones get that much nowadays :-) > The downside of all HTC phones is they use a special mini-USB socket to > do audio out as well, rather than a separate 3.5mm connector. You can > buy adapters to get a 3.5mm connector but I'm pointing this out now so > you aren't surprised later. Bah. NIH. > Apart from that, figure out if the Rogers devices can be "rooted" > because the Android devices are so much more useful if you have full > access to do what you like to them. They run Linux underneath so it should be possible. There are two levels of access, getting root access and installing your own complete load. You can probably get command-line access to the phone using "adb" which is part of the Android SDK. It's another NIH; the Android folk didn't want to provide the industry-standard SSH so they invented their own *(#&@( thing. There are already forums where people show you how to get root on the T-Mobile G1, which looks to be the same phone as the Dream. And how to install ssh so your phone works like everything else on the planet. According to the Android site the carrier-supplied phones have a firmware lock that only allows signed firmware (e.g. kernel) to be installed. It will be interesting to see how long this takes to break, if it hasn't already been. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
